Beyond the fact that some have not yet confirmed it on their agendas, this afternoon at 7 p.m.
the governors of Together for Change
will have a
summit
at the Federal Investment Council (CFI), in which they will present their opinions regarding the Law Bus that the Government will seek to approve this week.
It will also be a show of strength, after having managed to get the Casa Rosada to lower a series of reforms proposed in the megaproject following requests from that group of leaders.
The meeting was confirmed to
Clarín
by at least three sources, although some kept it subject to officialization.
It will be a
new photo with representatives of the 10 provinces that manage between the PRO and radicalism
, but with the possibility of the addition of Peronist leaders who support a good part of the modifications to the law that the Cambiomitas promoted.
Among them are, for example, Osvaldo Jaldo, from Tucumán, Raúl Jalil, from Catamarca, and Martín Llaryora from Córdoba.
For Together for Change, meanwhile, Maximiliano Pullaro (Santa Fe), Jorge Macri (CABA), Rogelio Frigerio (Entre Ríos), Alfredo Cornejo (Mendoza), Ignacio Torres (Chubut), Gustavo Valdés (Corrientes) are expected to be present. ), Claudio Poggi (San Luis), Marcelo Orrego (San Juan), Leandro Zdero (Chaco) and Carlos Sadir (Jujuy).
Last week,
the opposition governors outlined a series of six points that were included in the law and that the Government ended up agreeing to lower from the project
.
But they still had not managed to get the increase in withholdings and changes in retirements, for example, removed from the text.
Finally, on Friday, Economy Minister Luis Caputo announced that the entire fiscal package of the project was left out, precisely at the request of the provinces.
These decisions were the closing of a week in which
Javier Milei had promised in a Cabinet meeting that he was going to leave the governors "without a penny"
and in which Caputo himself, as the leaders understand, openly threatened them via Twitter with cutting budget items in case they did not endorse the rule.
In the middle, for supposedly leaking information, the President fired the Minister of Infrastructure Guillermo Ferraro.
Maximiliano Pullaro and Rogelio Frigerio, two of the governors of Together for Change.
The other agreements were given in compliance with the ruling of the Supreme Court of Justice for co-participation that the Nation must pay to the city of Buenos Aires;
in that the money laundering promoted is shared by the provinces;
that the Trust Funds (FFDP and FFFIR) that are intended to assist the provinces are not eliminated;
in the way in which the Minimum Teaching Salary, CFE, is determined through;
in the transfer of the assets of the Sustainability Guarantee Fund (FGS) to settle debts with the provinces and in the elimination of the tax withholding relief for electronic collections in small taxpayers.
Along these lines - the leaders anticipate in WhatsApp chats - what is coming is an attempt by the Government to give a kind of epic to the approval of the law which, in fact, will have innumerable modifications in relation to the original project presented to the Congress.
The heart of the reform included changes in Profits, in the retirement system and an increase in withholdings
, all sensitive issues for the provinces that were truncated.
Especially this last point: for governors like
the radical Santa Fe resident Maximiliano Pullaro or the moderate Cordoban Martín Llaryora,
an increase in taxes on the countryside and industries in their provinces was indigestible.
As for Profits, although they benefited from greater collection in this co-participating tax,
they did not want to pay the cost of replacing a harsh adjustment to the middle class
and proposed alternatives to compensate for it.