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After the crossfire, Nation and City resumed negotiations for co-participation

2020-02-27T13:18:19.062Z


After almost 40 days of impasse, officials who respond to Eduardo "Wado" de Pedro received the Minister of Finance of Buenos Aires, Martín Mura. Tensions for the funds of the Buenos Aires Police.


Ignacio Ortelli

02/27/2020 - 9:56

  • Clarín.com
  • Politics

After a month of crossfire and in the pre-speech given by Alberto Fernández to the Congress at the opening of the ordinary sessions, the National Government and the City resumed the formal talks due to the reduction in the co-participation that the President plans to make.

The meeting, in the offices that the Ministry of Interior has in the former headquarters of the Banade, a few meters from Casa Rosada, had as its protagonists the Secretary of Relations with the Provinces, Silvina Batakis; and to the Buenos Aires Minister of Finance, Martín Mura; who gathered their technical teams to try to move forward in an agreement.

It was the reunion after the heavy ammunition that the National Government unloaded on the City. And it was led by the head of the Buenos Aires government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, who had to insist on the political minister Eduardo "Wado" de Pedro to resume the formal dialogue.

In that sense, from the Buenos Aires Government they value the dialogist position of the head of state and his main sword, the head of Cabinet, Santiago Cafiero; and mark a contrast with some movements of the leader of La Cámpora. He is associated with the rigid posture of Cristina Kirchner, who was the first to claim a withdrawal of funds from the City. In that context, they frame the accusation that, as Clarín said, departed from the Casa Rosada regarding the 127 billion pesos that, as they understand in the Government, the City received in more terms in terms of co-participation during the mandate of Mauricio Macri.

Although the meeting on Wednesday was "in good terms", as agreed by both sectors, from both sectors indicated that "there was no concrete progress". According to this newspaper, the cost of the maintenance of the Police, which until 2016 faced with Nation and whose transfer motivated Macri to decree the increase of the co-participation of 1.4 a, was addressed on the work table. 3.75 percent - then down to 3.5% - which the Fernández government questions today.

"We did not agree, but it is always good to be able to talk. The idea is to meet again after Alberto's speech in Congress," a source who participated in the meeting told this newspaper.

Indeed, from the City - and also in the Nation - they discount that the President will refer to the subject in his speech to open ordinary sessions. He would address it, according to different interlocutors, by insisting that his will is to draw "a more equitable Argentina."

In the government of Larreta insist they question the arguments that Nation deployed since the intention of the Government to cut the co-participation was known. They emphatically reject that the City has received those 127 billion pesos in excess ("They did the accounts badly and 'Wado' knows it, that is why they did not insist more on the subject", they emphasize) and defend, even, the cession - recently canceled by the head of the AABE, Martín Cosentino- of 31 properties valued at 16 billion pesos that Macri had for the Buenos Aires area, after the electoral victory of the Frente de Todos was completed.

However, after almost 40 days of "cold war", without meetings between the parties, while the most extreme sectors of both coalitions stress to stir up the political fight, the intention of Alberto F. and Larreta is to reach an agreement. From Nation they indicate that from the City they explained their predisposition to accept "until half a point" of withdrawal of co-participation, which could comfortably compensate with what they will receive more from the suspension of the fiscal pact. But the magic number to which De Pedro aspires is 1.2 percent: "We want to help, but a cut like that they will have to explain it to the people of Buenos Aires," they say near Larreta.

Source: clarin

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