Bases Law in City: project advances in commission and libertarians press for it to be discussed

The project of the Buenos Aires Bases law He began his journey in Legislature of the City. This Tuesday it was turned to seven parliamentary committees. From the block Freedom Advances They are pressing for the initiative to be discussed on campus. Drive a cutting public positions, privatizations, a local RIGI and health billing for non-residents.

After the unrest generated in the government of Jorge Macri for the surprising presentation, the libertarians, far from stopping the measure – as requested from the PRO-, They added more tension to the relationship with the officialdom local by demanding that its discussion be promoted in the commissions.

He yellow block knows that the space that leads Pilar Ramirez in it Buenos Aires parliament It does not have the votes to achieve its approval, so they play with that advantage. Even among libertarians they are aware of this, but they clarify that “It is not a question of votes” but to move forward with the reforms.

The initiative promotes privatization of public companies, a RIGI with local characteristics and the public health billing for non-residents. Furthermore, they promote a extensive cut in the Buenos Aires State to reduce charges by halfincluding addresses and subaddresses.

From the government of Macri They maintain that since December they have been carrying out a plan to cut positions through which reduced “the number of contracts and the fleet of official cars” and the structure was reduced: “We went from having 13 secretaries to 8. We eliminated 15 undersecretaries and 35 general directorates.”

Last week, Buenos Aires officials front liners contacted the libertarian bloc and they agreed to set up work tables to analyze the project point by point. From the leading block Pilar Ramirez they highlighted Scope that The PRO “committed to taking the project and working on it in commissions.”

The Buenos Aires Bases law advances in the Buenos Aires Legislature

He project, who entered last week at the Legislature, It has already begun to pass through the Buenos Aires Parliament. This Tuesday it was turned over to the commissions of “Economic Development, Mercosur and employment policies”, “Budget, Treasury, Financial Administration and Tax Policy”, “Constitutional Matters”, “Justice, “Health”, “Labor legislation” and “Decentralization and citizen participation”.

A legislator with good ties to the libertarians and the PRO He stated to this medium that it is a law similar to the one promoted by Javier Milei, approved in June by the Congress. “That law had the support of the PRO in the Nation,” he recalled.in a shot by elevation official bloc, who rejects the project.

In it libertarian bloc They assure that one of the reasons behind the law is that “there are too many charges” in the Executive. And they focus on some 2,500 political officials, between ministers, secretaries, directors, deputy directors that, as they say, they perceive “millionaire salaries”.

The regulations propose a strong restructuring and reorganization of government areas “to guarantee reasonableness in the public spending relationship”. The charges could be reduced by up to half, maintaining only those that are “necessary”.

Furthermore, it promotes a non-resident charging system in the case of use of services health, when “These are not emergency situations”. “For cases in which the aforementioned situations are not verified, the enforcement authority must implement a compensation system of the expenses incurred by the health system City which should be assumed by the recipient of the provision of health services,” says the project.

In the same way that progress was made in the national Congress, it orders to declare “subject to privatization” to companies and societies “wholly owned” either “majority” of the City governmentamong which were Urban Highways Public Limited Company (AUSA), Buenos Aires City Lottery and Buenos Aires SE Subways.

The process of divestment of companies, according to the project, must be developed “in accordance with the principles of transparency, competition, maximum competition, open government, efficiency and effectiveness in the use of resources, publicity and dissemination,” according to the deadlines stipulated in a possible regulation of the law.

Furthermore, as in the National regulations, the Buenos Aires version of the project promotes a local RIGI called “Incentive Regime in Districts of the City of Buenos Aires”focused on expanding “tax and promotion benefits” for the Technological and Audiovisual Districts. It also incorporated changes to the Arts District, the Design District and the Sports District.

“The regulations propose to include new activities related to emerging sectors, like the renewable energies, ensuring that the City continues to position itself as a reference center in technology and production audiovisual at a global level,” the text indicated. As the project clarified, its incorporation into the new regimes “will not be incompatible with the Incentive Regime for Large Investors.”