Finally, the block Freedom Advances stopped the presentation of the Law Bases in the City, an ambitious project that proposed halve charges in the state, privatize companies publicYocas, implement a local RIGI and charge health care to non-residents. The initiative took Jorge Macri’s government by surprise. After finding out, Buenos Aires officials contacted Nation terminals to pause the announcement and open negotiation tables.
The president of the libertarian space in the Legislature, Pilar Ramirez, which responds directly to the General Secretary of the Presidency, Karina Milei, I had everything ready to announce the proposal “Bases to Strengthen the Decentralization, Debureaucratization and Optimization of the resources of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires”. The announcement was going to take place this Wednesday. However, at the last minute it was stopped.
The libertarian move, which had the support of legislators PRO who respond to the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, It generated discomfort in the Buenos Aires administration. From the headquarters of Uspallata They did not hide their anger and quickly contacted front-line officials of the Government of Javier Milei. The call was led by one of the most trusted men of the head of Government, who managed to agree to deactivate the presentation of the local Bases law.
Meanwhile, the libertarian legislators and the PRO as a whole they will advance in a work table which will analyze, point by point, the proposals reflected in the project, as confirmed to this medium. For now, the text “will remain that way, in a project“, they point out.
Like its counterpart approved by Congress, the initiative is divided into a series of chapters among which are a reform of the State, with privatizations of public companies, concessions, availability of workers not relocated due to cuts, among others. . According to the text that Ámbito accessed, it had the objective of “reduce the oversizing of state structures” and remove the “overlapping and redundancy of functions” between government areas, companies, organizations, entities, agencies and institutes.
In the Buenos Aires Government they assure that they have been working for several months on different projects and measures to improve the efficiency of the State. They also affirm that in recent times “the number of contracts and the fleet of official cars” were reduced and the structure was reduced: “We went from having 13 secretaries to 8. We eliminated 15 undersecretaries and 35 general directorates.” From the libertarian bloc they denounce that there are currently about 2,500 officials with political positions, including ministers, secretaries, directors, deputy directors who receive “millionaire salaries”.
“We are also making the effort from politics,” they reply from the Buenos Aires headquarters.although they are open to continuing dialogue in search of agreements: “We have been working together for months on various projects. Today we meet with the libertarian bloc, as we have done with all the other blocs. “We are willing to dialogue with each of the political spaces that want to add proposals to improve everything we have been doing.”
The Bases of CABA law that proposed adjustment in the State, privatizations, local RIGI and charging non-residents for health care was stopped
The initiative was promoted from the highest level of the national government given that had the approval of the President’s sister. The presentation was going to be made by Ramírez, who responds to Karina Milei, together with the libertarian bloc and PRO legislators, Juan Pablo Arenaza, Silvia Imas and María González Estevarena, who have a direct line with the national minister. However, he encountered a strong rejection at the local level so, momentarily, will not see the light.
The regulations proposed a strong restructuring and reorganization of the government areas “to guarantee the reasonableness in the relationship public spending.” The charges could be reduced by up to half, maintaining only those that are “necessary”. In the same way that progress was made in the national Congress, it ordered to declare “subject to privatization” to companies and societies “wholly owned” either “majority” of the government of the City, among which were Autopistas Urbanas Sociedad Anónima (AUSA), Lotería de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires and Subterráneos de Buenos Aires SE.
The process of divestment of the companies, according to the project, had to be developed “in accordance with the principles of transparency, competition, maximum attendance, open government, efficiency and efficiency in the use of resourcesadvertising 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 promoted a local RIGI called “Incentive Regime in Districts of the City of Buenos Aires”, focused on expanding “tax and promotional benefits” for the Technological Districts and Audiovisual. It also incorporated changes in the District of the arts, the District of Design and the District of Sport.
“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 audiovisual production at a global level,” indicated the text. As the project clarified, its incorporation into the new regimes “shall not be incompatible with the Incentive Regime for Large Investors”.
The Bases bill promoted by La Libertad Avanza in the City
Source: Ambito
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