Budget 2025: Government fine-tunes treatment schedule and addresses federal reproaches

This Wednesday at Casa Rosada the team in charge of the legislative negotiations was once again made explicit: Luis Caputo, Guillermo Francos and Lisandro Catalan -Deputy Chief of Staff- are those who maintain the greatest fluidity of dialogue with the governors; Martin Menem and Jose Luis Espert are the official arms in the House of Representatives; while Ezequiel Atauche will seek rapprochement in the Senate. The first steps were already taken on Monday, in a meeting with allies of the PRO and the MID, and on Tuesday, with a Zoom meeting with 17 leaders.

The will of the governors It is the one that will have the most weight in the details of the project, in addition to the dozen votes that respond directly to them in the Chamber.Ministers from the three provinces (Salta, Misiones, Río Negro) are working on the project. that make up the block. Then we will meet with them and based on that we will have the discussion,” he told Ámbito Pamela Calletti, holder of Federal Innovation (8 members) and member of the Budget Committee. This committee has been able to vote against, in favor of and abstain from the government’s initiatives.

Another space with a direct link with provincial leaders, Federal Meeting (16 votes), began to take a stand. Especially, from the province of Cordova. “The idea that the provinces should adjust is absolutely unsustainable and illogical. “in $60 billion,” wrote Senator Alejandra Vigo on her social networks in a publication signed by five deputies of the bloc, where he pointed out that the districts “should reduce spending on fundamental services such as education, health, security, and public works by one third.”

Deputies of the Union for the Fatherland ask for Caputo

German Martinezblock holder of Union for the Homelandanticipated to this medium that the Budget merits “a thorough study” and a strong discussion that should not be limited to the legislative space: “We have to use this project as a political tool to campaign and tell people, province by province, the effects it can have.. If we do that, it cannot come out as it is and an AntiMilei spirit may appear in the territories.”

In addition to expressing the will of Peronism that there be an approved Budget law that governs the national economy, the deputy analyzed that the will of Javier Milei It is not discretionary management: “If not, why did you do what you did on Sunday? What he needs is to show the IMF that he can approve a budget.”

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Deputies from the Union for the Fatherland party, at the meeting on Wednesday to debate the budget project.

Union for the Homeland held a meeting this afternoon between its economic technicians and the leaders of the bloc, who will insist on a claim which has been maintained since the beginning of the year: the presence of the Minister of Economy Luis Caputo. The confirmed presence of the Secretaries of the Treasury, Carlos Guberman, and Finance, Pablo Quirnoin the first instances of the debate do not satisfy Peronism. They will also ask for the participation of the head of the Central Bank, Santiago Bausili.

Some of its members have already announced on their social networks the points they will emphasize: the Buenos Aires Toulouse Peace He pointed out the elimination of setting the minimum budget for Education in 6% of the GDP; the porteño Hagman criticized the repeal of the mobility of the family allowances; the Santa Fe native Mirabella He referred to the tax rigor that is applied to the provinces.

Support from their own, but with a request for debate

The Government’s main allies were the first to have the opportunity to answer questions about the origin of the Casa Rosada’s forecasts for next year: growth of 5%, inflation of 18% annually and official dollar at $1200. “Everything is in a very preliminary situation“, they pointed out to this medium from the MID. Both they and the members of the block of Freedom Advances They received the project from the Budget Once the speech was over, Javier Milei in Congress.

From the PROthe main economic technicians shared this view in different interviews. “We are in a stage of more questions and understanding how the numbers were put together,” said the Cordoban Figueroa Houses; “We conveyed our concerns, such as the case of the co-participation of the city of Buenos Aires, which is useless as it is, but we also learned about the Budget,” acknowledged the Buenos Aires native. Fernandez Molero; “There is a big debate coming about priorities in the Budget,” predicted the Santa Fe native Laspina.

From dialogism, in the environment of the Civic Coalition (6 votes) expressed their intention to address the tax regimes of the provinces but asked for time for further analysis. The positions of the UCR will once again be crossed by the internal affairs that currently govern the party, although it is expected accompaniment -which does not exclude debate- of the five deputies who met with Milei in Casa Rosada: Picat confirmed it for this medium and Arjol did it on social networks.

However, the contrasting views within radicalism exceed that sector and reach the economists who are part of the Budget and Finance Committee. This is the case of the Mendoza Lisandro Nieri -close to Governor Cornejo- who observed that “the request to the provinces to commit to bringing public spending to 25 points of GDP is positive.” The Buenos Aires native’s view is different. Martin Tetaz“Spending less money is no merit; of course you have to be austere, because otherwise you cannot finance yourself, but the important thing is that the State works.” The debate, postponed last year, promises long sessions.