Ignacio Ortelli
12/01/2020 2:32 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 12/01/2020 2:35 PM
"The (Supreme Court) Court wants this to be resolved by politics."
The sentence, of a close collaborator of Alberto Fernández, explains to a large extent the strategy that the Government deployed around the project that
was approved this Monday in Deputies
to set the funds that correspond to the City for the transfer of the Buenos Aires Police arranged by Mauricio Macri in 2016. And it also reveals the confidence in the ruling party that, at a minimum, the High Court will not rule against the interests of the Casa Rosada in the face of the lawsuit filed by Horacio Rodríguez Larreta as of the withdrawal of the co-participation decided by the President.
As with the transfer of judges Leopoldo Bruglia, Pablo Bertuzzi and Germán Castelli, the Government is optimistic about the signals that, according to speculations, the Court would have given.
"More than two months after Larreta presented there was neither a precautionary nor a substantive definition, when supposedly it is an issue of such institutional gravity. That is all a fact, right?", Asks one of the judicial swords in the that Alberto F. trusts the most.
In effect, according to calculations made in both districts, the 1.18 percent cut provided by Alberto F. represents a daily loss for the City of about 150 million pesos.
Despite this, since the mayor of Buenos Aires appeared before the Justice on September 18 to request the unconstitutionality of the decree, the claim is still pending definition.
It was enough time so that, in a complementary way to the Fernández decree, the national government sent a project to Congress to cut even more funds and, incidentally, to surround the measure of political consensus to send a signal to the courtiers.
It is that, as Clarín said, the national government assured from the outset that even the reduction of 1.18 (from 3.5 to 2.32% of co-participation) provided by Fernández was less than that corresponding to offset the increase. of 2.1% arranged by Macri when he transferred to the City the management of the Federal Police that operates in the area.
The accounts they do in Nación, which
are supported by a technical report
made by the team of the Minister of the Interior, Eduardo "Wado" de Pedro, maintain that the current 0.92% of co-participation (which is added to the 1.4% that the City originally had) represents a higher figure than the corresponding one.
And it
states that the expenses by the Buenos Aires police represented in 2019 only 0.58% of co-participation
.
Hence, the Nation insist on pointing out that in the last four years the national state transferred more than 100 billion pesos more to the City for this concept.
From the Buenos Aires administration they emphatically deny these calculations, they endorse that "not a single peso was received" and as proof of this they present the surrender of expenses that were made in the last four years before the Federal Tax Commission, which show that the Spending on Security was higher than the funds received by the Nation.
Beyond that they interpret as a "signal" that the Court has not expedited the processing of the lawsuit, the Government admits that
the ruling could include a concession for the City
, even though it will probably come out once the law that set a lump sum instead of a co-participation percentage.
In that sense, they understand in the Casa Rosada that the High Court could object that the removal was made in the middle of the year, when there was an agreed current Budget, not only at the national level but also in the Buenos Aires area.
In that case, the Nation should restore some
13 billion pesos.
If, as the Government suggests, the Court wants the issue to be resolved by politics, the approval with changes of the bill in Deputies stretches the definition a little more.
The figure that appeared in the original text - $ 24.5 billion - was eliminated and will be rediscussed for 60 days in the framework of a commission.
Always, of course, that the Senate confirms the modifications and the troops that respond to Cristina Kirchner do not insist on the project that it already validated days ago.
The City is skeptical of the changes.
In principle, because although the Buenos Aires authorities are brought up to a formal negotiation table, the text does not contemplate with what tools they will be able to face this negotiation.
Then, also, because of the dilemma that it could imply if he endorsed with his presence in that discussion the validity of a law that he was already preparing to challenge.