After help Javier Milei in Congress, governors expect advances in key works

The action passed in parallel in two scenarios connected to each other. On the one hand, in deputies, La Libertad advances (lla) tried to add wills to treat the initiative this Thursday in the enclosure. On the other, the chief of cabinet, Guillermo Francosand the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputothey held a suggestive meeting with provincial bosses of different shudges.

Almost as well from the conclave, deputies who respond to Jalil and Santiago Gerardo Zamoraalso of union for the country (UP), signed their own opinion in the commissions of Constitutional Affairs, Justice and Budget and Finance, enabling the government to take the project to suppress the passage to the enclosure.

Last week, both leaders had met at the Government House of Santiago del Esterowhere they wrote a joint letter asking Minister Caputo to remain firm the opening of tender offers for the Albigasta River Aqueduct Network and Potabilizer Plants.

The Catamarque, in addition, has already expressed himself at different times in favor of suspending the step, considering that it is the affiliates of each party who must define their conduits. In fact, what happens in Parliament to advance in that regard in its province. Zamora, meanwhile, will leave office this year. And although he cultivated an opposition profile, he maintains a fluid relationship with the Casa Rosada. The possibility of reaching some veiled agreement for the elections is considered.

The Francos and Caputo Summit with Northern Governors had as its central axis the public works, item whose paralysis worries in the provinces. The leaders intended to include in the 2025 budget all the projects that Nation set out to end in order to guarantee their financing. The discussion by the “Law of Laws” fell, the bilateral negotiations will be a constant this year, as the government needs to advance with its own initiatives.

Subsequently to the rally, the governors gave some coordinates regarding what was discussed. The Salta Gustavo Sáenzby case, he indicated that they could advance in the ambitious Bioceanic corridora key commercial route for the northern provinces, as well as for Chile, Bolivia and southern Brazil. “It is a historical management for Salta: the dream of the bioceanic corridor, more and closer,” The president said after the meeting.

Since their administration they specified that progress was made in a promotion loan with multiparent agencies and that it would have the endorsement of the Nation, for the strategic development of the Bioceanic Corridor, including regional integration routes between Argentina, Chile and Paraguay.

In the prelude to the meeting, the Minister of Economy of that province, Roberto Dib Ashurhad highlighted Scope the need for local production to reach the ports of Chile and Paraguay. “In those things you have to think,” he said, while recalled that the center region has 50% of the asphalted routes, while that number is only 10% in the north of the country.

The correlation of these advances is in Congress, where the eight deputies of Salta and Missionary officials coexist in the block Federal innovationkey space to tertiary between the hard opposition of UP and the ruling and its recurring allies, such as the PRO.

For its part, the tucumano Osvaldo Jaldo He said that the meeting was “very positive” and that the government “committed to respecting all the agency records signed with the provinces in 2024, and in which the provinces also, in reciprocity to the attitude of the nation, promised to continue with these works and their financing. “

The Vipos Aqueduct, the airport -who yesterday was called to tender -, continuity, with financial assistance from Nation and Province, from the prison of Benjamín Paz; Provincial Route 307; The double list of El Bracho and the Procrear, in which the National Government gives the land to the province to advance in its construction are some of the projects that the Peronist mandamás put on the table.

The Secretary of Finance also participated in the meeting, Pablo Quirnoand the interior cabinet vice head, Lisandro Almirón. Tucuman crib, the latter officiates as a link between the Casa Rosada and the Districts and Pica in Punta to be a candidate of LL in Jaldo’s lands, who intends to unify all the Peronism behind him for the legislative.

Another of the chiefs who had interference in the opinion to eliminate the step was the Cordoba Martín Llaryorawho ordered his deputies to accompany the official strategy.

This Wednesday, the Mediterranean tweeted that “it is time to eliminate the step”, considering that “they have lost their reason for being.” “Instead of functioning as an instance of internal competition between candidates of the same party, they have become an early election, distorting their original purpose,” he said.

On the other hand, he considered that “Its cost is irrational in the current context that the country is going through” and asked the legislators of Córdoba to support the initiative to leave their operation without effect.

Lime and sand for provincial coffers

Against what happened in 2024, January registered a 12.1% rise in federal co -participation, according to data from the Argentine Institute of Fiscal Analysis (IARAF). Nation sent to the provinces and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA) a total of $ 4,749,000 million in co -participation, special laws and compensation, compared to $ 2,290,000 million sent for the same period of the previous year. That is, a nominal variation of 107%.

Luckily they had discretionary transfers, according to the consulting firm Politikón Chaco, they had their third worst January in 20 years, with a 98%collapse. In addition, only two districts concentrated all the shipments: CABA (90% of the total) and Chubut (8%).

The city received the payment of $ 77,804 million for compliance with precautionary measure CSJN 1864/2022 (Copartitioning Debt); This is the same concept that explained the growth of these shipments for the Autonomous City during 2024. Meanwhile, Chubut received an advance of $ 7,000 million contributions from the National Treasury (ATN) for the reconstruction of the town of Epuyén, affected by the forest fires.

Despite the first movements in deputies, the backup network with which the official project has to eliminate the primary will just be revealed this Thursday, in the session in the enclosure.