12/28/2020 18:11
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 12/28/2020 6:11 PM
The Government of the City of Buenos Aires on
Monday filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court
to try to stop the Law that Congress approved with the impulse of Kirchnerism in which it takes funds from the coparticipation.
Clarín had anticipated that after the regulations came into force, the Buenos Aires authorities would go to Court.
This Monday the Law was published in the Official Gazette.
On the cover page of the lawsuit brought by the lawyers representing the City, María Cristina Cuello and Gabriel Astarloa, it is read that the claim is for a "declaratory action of unconstitutionality."
The Law was approved in the Chamber of Deputies, after passing through the Senate,
on December 10 last.
Kirchnerism was the main driver of the regulation that cuts funds from the co-participation to the City.
According to the Buenos Aires Government, only in 2021 with the new Law, it will lose $ 65,083 million pesos.
Despite the presentation in the highest court, in the Buenos Aires government they discount that the Court will take time to define.
In fact, you have no deadlines and you can decide when to deal with the issue with an eye on politics.
Máximo Kirchner with Sergio Massa and Alberto Fernández.
He is the driving force behind the cuts to the City.
In recent times, the court was harshly questioned by Cristina Kirchner and by President Alberto Fernández himself after he upheld the conviction of former Vice President Amado Boudou.
“Nor should we be surprised if this Court, which happily consented to the largest indebtedness in memory on a planetary scale with the IMF, begins to dictate rulings of a net economic cut to condition or extort money from this government.
Or what is even worse: to make him fail ”, wrote the president of the Senate in a balance letter of the first year of the Government.
The vice president was the one who first spoke about the funds the City received.
Two days after Fernández took office, in a ceremony in La Matanza where he participated in the inauguration of Mayor Fernando Espinoza, he criticized the distribution of federal resources and especially the position of the Federal Capital where, he warned, "even the ferns have light and water".
In the City they are already resigned to
the bleeding of funds that began in September
, when Máximo Kirchner made the idea he had defended since March come true: defund the Buenos Aires police to transfer funds to the province of Buenos Aires.
The decision - like the change in the pension update formula and the resistance to Martín Guzmán's plan to increase public service rates - is explained by the electoral year.
The new Law stipulates an amount of $ 24,500 million to alleviate the cut.
It will be destined for internal security, but in the City they consider that it is not enough.
"The amount that the national government is available to transfer as a payment on account to finance security would only cover 27.9% of the total budget and only 40% of the projected personnel spending," they explain.
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The City denounces that due to the cut it will lose $ 65,083 million only in 2021
