“The profound ignorance of the National Constitution that these statements show is astonishing. The minister should not ignore that it is a basic constitutional principle to guarantee the autonomous functioning of the municipal regime and that the municipalities constitute the basic cell of the society of democratic coexistence in a republican system and federal”, the leaders who make up responded the Argentine Federation of Municipalities (FAM).
On January 8, Caputo shared a statement from the ministry he presides on the social network X, in which he announced the request to the provincial heads. In said request to the governors, it was highlighted that “the illegal and arbitrary exercise of tax power applied by municipalities harms the efforts of the National Government to avoid increases in tax pressure. In turn, these affect the costs of goods and services, and prevent a greater reduction in the national inflation rate, harming the citizen and the different jurisdictions.
The response from the mayors was immediate and they responded to the minister with another statement. “The minister has at his disposal all the elements provided by his position to know that all Argentine municipalities have, together, no more than insufficient 5% of the total public resources and that with that amount they perform very important functions in seeks the well-being of its neighbors, assuming more and more responsibilities for the growing citizen demands that always reach the first step of democracy, which is local governments,” they expressed. “Perhaps the fact that Minister Caputo has developed his professional career in the world of finance, far from the real economy, and the circumstance of his belonging to a government that, with the excuse of stabilizing the macroeconomy, destroys the microeconomy, enhance their inability to understand what the economic dynamics of a commune are like and how each and every one of the needs of society are financed,” they added, with considerations about the economic scenario.
The FAM is chaired by the mayor of La Matanza, Fernando Espinoza, who was elected in 2022, re-elected in July of last year, and the vice presidents who accompany him are Lorenzo Schmidt (mayor of Villa Dos Trece, Formosa) and Juan Manuel García ( Machagai, Chaco). The entity brings together some 500 municipalities in the country and Jorge Ferraresi (Avellaneda), Julio Alak (La Plata), Mario Secco (Ensenada), Fabián Cagliardi (Berisso), Leonardo Nardini (Malvinas Argentinas), Juan José Mussi participated in the last assemblies. (Berazategui), Gastón Granados (Ezeiza) and Gustavo Barrera (Villa Gesell).
Marking distance
Since the president took office Javier Mileithis space has maintained critical positions on its management because a large part of the Nation’s cuts to the provinces, in terms of public works, directly impacted small administrations because they were recipients of those resources for the construction of schools. , housing, social infrastructure, water and sewage.
One of the last meetings was held in La Rioja, in August of last year and with the presence of the governor Ricardo Quintelawhere nearly 150 municipal leaders from Norte Grande met, whose deliberations revolved around the analysis of the negative effects of the Government’s policies in all localities. At that time, they agreed upon a document in which they stated: “This very harsh mega-adjustment, based on ideological convictions, only favors financial speculators, some large companies and foreign funds, which aspire to appropriate Argentine wealth with enormous earnings”. “The hyper-recession is generating a growth in poverty that, since Milei took office, has climbed and reached sadly historic percentages with the consequent growth of destitution. The abandonment of support and assistance policies for the most vulnerable, and the permanent deterioration to the middle class, damages the social fabric of our beloved Argentina,” he concluded.
Source: Ambito
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