CABA held the Nation responsible for the removal of subsidies to the 31 bus lines that circulate in Buenos Aires territory

In this regard, the Buenos Aires administration emphasized that “The 31 bus lines that run through the territory of the City of Buenos Aires depend directly on the National Government.“. They also stressed that the one who determines “whether to maintain or remove the subsidies, increase their rates, change their routes or cancel the circulation permits” is the Nation, which is why they demand that the responsibility of facing the costs of the change in the benefit of the SUBE Network should not be borne by the City.

“It is the National Government that distributes the total subsidies to its public bus transport lines. The City does not receive subsidies from the Nation. The bus lines receive them directly through the National Transportation Secretariat,” they said in a harsh statement.

They also pointed out that since 2019, the City “subsidized the National State with a contribution of more than 610 billion pesos (approximately 610 million dollars).”

“The Nation cannot unilaterally transfer powers or transfer the contribution of subsidies to the City of Buenos Aires without its consent, which must be done through an agreement signed and endorsed by the Buenos Aires Legislature and the National Congress. Doing otherwise is unconstitutional and violates Article 75 of the Magna Carta,” they also warned.

Finally, and in the face of a conflict scenario, since Both the City and the Province reject the Nation’s proposal to begin to face the expenses of local public transportation as of September 1, the administration of Jorge Macri expressed a strong rejection and launched: “The National Government intends stop contributing to the subsidies of the 31 bus lines that circulate through the City, but keep the power to supervise the entire service and set rates and the amounts of compensation, which it intends to be borne by the City. In other words, the Nation decides everything and wants the City to pay the consequences of its decisions.”

The province of Buenos Aires assures that it will not be able to face the costs of the removal of transport subsidies

In the same sense as those expressed from the City of Buenos Aires, the Minister of Government of Buenos Aires, Carlos Biancosaid this morning that the national administration would suspend the benefit. “We have already been informed that this will be eliminated. The Government is going to eliminate it and that will have a very big impact on the province of Buenos Aires. and, punctually, on the pocket of the people of Buenos Aires”.

At this morning’s press conference, Bianco denied that the province of Buenos Aires had any privileges due to the Integrated Ticket subsidy and ruled out the possibility of the Province taking charge of these expenses: “These are very high amounts, $5 billion per month. We will work on it, but Today the Province does not have the resources to meet these amounts.“he later said.

The national administration stated: “Because the National State only subsidizes jurisdictional transportation with social rates, The Government of the Province of Buenos Aires cannot demand privileges for its jurisdiction and even less so having actions that are associated with political advantage,” they said.

Finally, the Government stressed that “they aim to ensure that resources are distributed equitably across all provinces of the country, assuming the costs exclusively for the responsibilities that correspond to them.”