The governors They made their contribution to shield the veto of Javier Milei to the educational financing law but now they stand before the Budget 2025. On this occasion, La Libertad Avanza must add 129 votes to approve the initiative presented by the president in Congress, a figure impossible to achieve without the support of the provincial leaders. It is no longer enough just with the PRO of Mauricio Macri.
Support for the veto on universities was the governors’ last show of faith. The three votes together with La Libertad Avanza from the people of Tucuman who respond to Osvaldo Jaldoa vote from José Luis Garrido (Santa Cruz), four absences of deputies from Catamarca, Chubut, Córdoba and Salta, in addition to the abstentions of four legislators from Misiones, were the key to shielding the veto.
Governors irritated after veto on university funding
The governors are irritated. Since the last meeting almost a month ago with Luis Caputo and Guillermo Francos They had no news about the modification of the public works annex.
Nor for the claim of funds that correspond to you through co-participation. “We agree with the fiscal balance but we demand the funds that correspond to us by law. We supported everything in Congress, from the Bases law to the DNU but they did not comply with anything. The debate over the Budget is the limit,” they warn from a dialogic province.
As anticipated Scopethe governors Martin Llaryora (Cordova), Maximiliano Pullaro (Santa Fe), Alfredo Cornejo (Mendoza) and Rogelio Frigerio (Entre Ríos) will appear before the commission of Budget and Treasury of the Chamber of Deputies to expose the critical situation of the provinces in the face of the cut in funds and the drop in collections ahead of the debate on the 2025 Budget project in Congress.
The convocation of these governors of Peronism, the UCR and PRO was in charge of the Federal Meeting block of Miguel Pichetto who has already agreed with the provincial leaders to attend the commission chaired by José Luis Espert where the 2025 Budget began to be analyzed with the presence of Carlos Guberman (Secretary of the Treasury) and Pablo Quirno (Finance Secretary).
Last night, a request was made for an invitation to the National Interuniversity Council to explain, after the presidential veto, the critical financial situation of the higher education institutions.
Congress, at the pace of the veto
After the eventful sanction of the Bases law, where the President achieved the delegated powers that allowed him, for example, to decree that Aerolíneas Argentinas is subject to privatization in addition to moving forward with the closure of public organizations, Congress was practically reduced to a sphere of debate of decrees of necessity and urgency and vetoes of Javier Milei to the laws promoted by the opposition. First was the veto of the retirement mobility law and yesterday the veto of the educational financing law.
The governors and the dialogue opposition have only managed to reject, until now, the DNU that granted 100,000 million pesos to the SIDE for reserved expenses. DNU 70/2023, which deregulates economic activity and prices, was rejected by the Senate but has the tacit endorsement of the Chamber of Deputies.
La Libertad Avanza did not deploy its own legislative agenda throughout the year beyond the Bases law, the DNU and the treatment of vetoes. That is why the governors are preparing to show their teeth and defend their resources in the face of the debate over the Budget 2025.
To approve the Budget, It will be necessary to have a floor of 129 votes that La Libertad Avanza cannot be achieved without the support of the provinces. However, it does not imply a scenario of agreement between Milei and the governors, whom the President more than once called “fiscal degenerates” and demanded an adjustment in their districts of 60,000 million dollars.
The problem for the Governors is that the scenario of rejection of the 2025 Budget would imply greater discretion for the management of the budget items on the part of the Casa Rosada since the national government would have to extend the 2023 Budget taking into account that in 2024 no vote was taken. that law of laws.
Javier Milei’s adjustment
Concerns are beginning to grow among the dialoguist governors after the fiscal adjustment they have already made in their provinces. The financial suffocation for public works added to the arrival of the electoral year where they will have to face a Peronism that is regrouping in the face of the question of whether La Libertad Avanza will present its own or shared ballot in its provinces. Yesterday the national deputies of Entre Ríos, Francisco Morchio, Atilio Benedetti and Marcela Ántola, voted against President Milei’s veto of the university financing law.
Deputy Morchio assured that “free, quality public education is a priority in our management in the province.” “I cannot endorse the definancing of the public university system. We share the need to maintain fiscal balance but adjustment cannot be where the future of Argentines is built,” he stated and then specified that “as a university professor I am a defender of public education. My vote is based on conviction. “They are the values that I have always defended throughout my entire public life.”
In turn, deputy Benedetti, claimed to be “radical, and from the University Reform party that more than 100 years ago declared the autonomy of national universities with respect to the National Executive Branch.
In this system, the one who sets the budget of the autonomous universities is Congress, not the president,” he maintained and, for which reason he considered that the presidential veto of the University Financing Law “is an interference in the autonomy of national universities, which I always defended with conviction and for that reason, my vote is against,” he stated. Meanwhile, Representative Ántola remarked that “the public university is a source of pride for our country, defending it is our obligation. In that sense we ratify the vote in favor of the universities by voting against the presidential veto.”
Source: Ambito
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