He Governor of Chubut, Ignacio Torrescrossed Javier Milei after the President assured, in the presentation of the 2025 Budget, that the provinces will have to make an adjustment of US$60,000 million. “The President lied saying that the provinces are responsible for the fiscal collapse and saying that there was going to be a adjustment of US$60 billion“, he assured.
The Patagonian leader participated in the virtual meeting called last Monday by the Chief of StaffGuillermo Francos, and the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo. “The meeting with Francos was good. First of all, he denied the adjustment of US$60 billion”the governor explained.
Ignacio Torres against Javier Milei
After the presentation of the 2025 Budget before Congressthe Patagonian leader participated – along with 15 other governors – in a virtual meeting called by Francos and Caputo. In it, Torres assured that the authorities “were presenting the Budget, with more detail and a very detailed analysis.”
“The President lied saying that the provinces are responsible for the fiscal collapse and saying that There was going to be a US$60 billion adjustment, which is a lie“, the governor firmly stated after the meeting.
“The meeting with Francos was good. First of all, he denied the adjustment of US$60 billion.which although we understood that it was a discursive turn, which was totally inapplicable, It is valuable that the minister recognizes that this is not the case.“Torres added about the objective of the meeting.
After the meeting, the leader celebrated that “in the meeting this situation was made clear and that on Thursday we will have a “final text” regarding the 2025 Budget project. In addition, the leader assured that he also celebrates that “recognize the fiscal effort that the provinces are makingthat out of every 100 we contribute we only receive 40.”
Finally, Torres stressed that during the meeting a commitment was reached to include in the project the payment to the provinces of the debt that the Nation has with the pension funds. “Fiscal balance must be achieved by complying with the law, otherwise what you are doing is illegal. The law says that the Nation has to return to the provinces that did not transfer their funds what they contribute to ANSES.”, he sentenced.
Governors reject Milei’s demand
After the President’s speech, the Buenos Aires administration of Axel Kicillof was one of the first to express its concern about the cuts demanded by the Nation. Last Monday, in the usual press conference, the Minister of Government Carlos “Carli” Bianco anticipated that the Province of Buenos Aires is already working on its own Budget and that, unlike the one presented by Milei, “It will not be an adjustment budget“.
In this regard, the official rejected the president’s request for “put a stop to the State“. “From the Province we tell Milei that we are not going to make that adjustment; that we are not going to participate in that adjustment, because we believe the opposite. It is not an ideological question: I travel a lot in the interior, I accompany the governor a lot, and the people do not ask us to put a stop to the State. Wherever you go they ask for more patrol cars. What are patrol cars? The State. Wherever you go they ask for more medicines, more supplies, more hospitals. What is that? The State,” he said.
Another district that raised its voice after the presentation of the 2025 Budget project was Santa Fe. Also on Monday, at a press conference, the governor Maximilian Pullaro He commented that “It is a little worrying that the provinces are still being asked to make an effort”. In addition, the leader highlighted that his province “was one of those that They made more effort so far this year to achieve efficiency in the management of public resources, to achieve fiscal balance.”
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In this regard, Pullaro recalled that after working “hard on the efficiency of public resource management” the province was able to present “in the first six months a small fiscal surplus.” After this, he concluded: “Santa Fe is not going to be a larger contribution to the national State, because it contributes three and a half times more than what is returned from the national State to the Province.”
For his part, Ricardo Quintela, governor of La Rioja, also criticized what Milei said and stressed: “Personally I am pessimistic because I believe that what he is looking for, the long-awaited zero deficit, It’s an absurd thing. Subject 50 million Argentines to that phrasestarving millions of Argentines for that famous zero deficit, is not the criterion that a ruler should have, who has to govern so that people live a little better, so that they eat, generate accessibility to services.”
“I will not have the adjustment that Mr. Milei is used to. We will guarantee that people receive their salary on time and in full, increasing it when we can. We will guarantee social stability“, the president concluded.
Source: Ambito
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