Governors Jalil and Sadir, from Catamarca and Jujuy, say that “they have already made the adjustments.” From Formosa, Insfrán said that “the Government takes from retirees for the benefit of a group of businessmen.”
The repercussions from the provinces at the request of the president Javier Milei to deepen the adjustment next year, despite the meeting held yesterday by several governors with members of the national Cabinet to calm the deepening of the chainsaw anticipated by the head of State. Today’s reactions originate in Catamarca, Jujuy, San Juan and Salta, but the harshest message came from Formosa. “The government takes resources from the middle class, the poor and the retired, which then go to pay the debt and to benefit a certain group of businessmen,” held Gildo Insfran, the president of Formosa.
The governor of Catamarca, Raul Jalil, He said this morning in a meeting with several media outlets in his province that all provincial chiefs who participated in the video conference with the Chief of Staff, Guillermo Francos, and the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, They support the idea that the country should have a fiscal surplus but it is “what we governors do every day.” The Catamarcan, who is part of the dialogue group, highlighted the dialogue that was opened with the national government as a step forward and anticipated that this Wednesday there will be a meeting in CABA between the Minister of Economy, Alejandra Nazareno, and the General Advisor of the government, Nicolás Rosales Matienzo, with Catamarcan parliamentarians. “They will discuss the conclusions of yesterday’s meeting (Monday) and the draft budget bill presented by President Javier Milei”he noted.
“Jujuy has already made all the adjustments that had to be made, everything that had to be reduced has already been reduced”said the Jujuy governor Raul Sadirwho stressed that his administration had to reconfigure its expenses due to “the elimination of transport subsidies, the elimination of the National Fund for Teacher Incentives, the elimination of discretionary transfers and the cuts to some health programs.” He stressed that the essential thing is economic reactivation and expressed a certain optimism about the measures announced by the Government to reduce inflation. “I hope that the inflation targets that have been set will be met because if this actually happens, it will be the way out of the critical situation in which Argentina is immersed.”said.
In response to the presidential proposal to deepen spending cuts, the Finance Minister of San Juan, Roberto Gutierrezstated that The adjustment that Milei requested from the governors “is something that this province – governed by Marcelo Orrego – has been doing since the beginning of the administration.” “Even the methodology proposed by the president, we have been applying it from the beginning. That is, we first established the resources we have and from there we see the level of expenses we can face,” he concluded, during an interview. Provincial leader Orrego was one of those who participated in the zoom with Francos and Caputo, a meeting that was not attended by Ricardo Quintela (La Rioja), Axel Kicillof (Buenos Aires), Gustavo Melella (Tierra del Fuego) and Gildo Insfrán (Formosa).
“Let them complete the works”
The Minister of Economy of Jump, Roberto Dib Ashur, He was criticized for the national request for adjustment and He insisted that they do not take into account the reality of the provinces that have already achieved fiscal balance, like this district. “They talk about more cuts and there is not much more to cut. We want to see if they will finish the works that they have promised.”he said in statements to a provincial newspaper. And he recalled that among the paralyzed national works are routes 9/34 and 51, the Vaqueros bridge, the treatment plant in the southern area of the provincial capital, the Judicial City of Orán and several technical schools. “What else can they take away from the province? The Nation has already withdrawn from the delivery of oncological medicines, housing, transportation subsidies and the Teaching Incentive. It only has to comply with the pending works,” he stressed.
The official of Governor Gustavo Sáenz recalled that Salta presented a project for tax sharing to the Nation, which was delivered to both President Milei and Vice President Victoria Villarruel. In his speech, the minister from Salta emphasized the need for equitable development for the entire country, pointing out the marked differences between the north and the center of Argentina: “In the north, only 14% of the roads are paved, while in the center the figure rises to 50%. We want an integrated Argentina, we do not want to be dependent on the center.”
“The Government is taking from the middle class, the poor and the retired”
Heading an official activity in the town of Estanislao del Campo, the governor of Formosa, Gildo Insfran, He highlighted the commitment of his administration to provide services to the community, in contrast to national policies “that benefit a privileged business group and hand over natural resources to foreign interests, leaving workers unprotected.”“The national government is taking resources from the middle classes, the poor, and retirees, which then go to paying off the debt and to benefit a certain group of businessmen,” he added during his speech.
Insfrán, who also presides over the Assembly of Governors that make up the Federal Investment Council (CFI), asserted that “today we have capital at the service of the economy and the economy at the service of that concentrated group that we call the Buenos Aires oligarchy.” “This is not free because there are interests from outside that applaud this type of policies because in this way they have a weak country,” he concluded.
Source: Ambito
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