Without a common strategy due to their own political differences and in many cases also mutual mistrust, the governors begin to articulate their
first responses
against what they consider "a policy of harassment" by
Javier Milei.
Following the decision of
Ignacio Torres
from Chubut to go to court against the removal of the public transport subsidy, this Wednesday
Alberto Weretilneck
from Rio Negro announced that his province
will also appeal to the courts
, but in his case due to the cut in shipments from the Fund of Teaching Incentive.
"We will probably go to court to demand that the Federal Educational Pact and the Educational Financing Law be complied with. Our senator
Mónica Silva
is presenting a project in the same vein.
We are going to take all the necessary actions so that those funds that correspond to her teachers and provinces continue to be sent
," the governor said in statements to a radio station in Río Negro.
Consulted by
Clarín,
Weretilneck explained that the presentation could be made between this Thursday and this Friday in the Federal Court of Viedma.
The Teacher Incentive Fund (FONID) was created during the administration of
Carlos Menem
.
This is an extra contribution that the Nation sends to the provinces so that they
can improve teachers' salaries.
The component means, on average, close to 10% of a teacher's initial salary.
Last week, as a result of the National Treasury not sending them these funds, the Ministers of Education of the 24 jurisdictions signed a joint claim.
The unions warn that the start of classes is in danger.
Governor Alberto Weretilneck.
Photo:Juano Tesone.
In radio statements, Weretilneck considered that the start of classes is "complex throughout the country, not only in Río Negro due to the context in which the National Government immerses us by ceasing to transfer educational funds that correspond to the provinces, starting with the Education Fund. Teaching incentive that in Río Negro is between 7% and 11%."
The governor also maintained that in the teaching parity
"the Province is going to make the proposal that it can pay"
and that "it would not make any sense to compromise salary policies that later affect the functioning of the province."
And he completed: "A State that spends everything on salaries is unviable, you have to pay what you can."
Weretilneck was already considering the option of going to court before knowing the public position of the Casa Rosada.
“In principle, the Nation is not going to transfer it because it is a fund that does not exist today, it does not exist,” presidential spokesperson
Manuel Adorni
said this Wednesday morning
, referring to FONID.
Presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni.
According to the provinces, the sending of these funds is not an arbitrary attribution of the National Executive Branch since they were contemplated in a law.
"The provinces have to settle their accounts"
Almost along the same lines, the Minister of the Interior,
Guillermo Francos,
said this Wednesday on radio Rivadavia: "We perfectly understand the complex situation that the governors have in the provinces, it is the same complex situation that the president has managing the nation as a whole. "The president has absolutely stepped on the expenses, he has decided how he is going to govern and I think that
the provincial governments are going to have to do the same, they have to settle the accounts and manage with what there is, with what they have
."
Francos added: "They cannot ask the national government to continue managing the country's economy in the way it had been previously, that is, through the false issuance of currency or debt. President Milei is not going to do that."
This Wednesday, different deputies from Unión por la Patria presented a bill so that the FONID remains in force for another five years.
The initiative was signed by Peronist deputies from different provinces, such as
Gustavo Bordet
from Entre Ríos ,
Sergio Casas
from Rioja and
Carlos Cisneros
from Tucumán , among others.
At the beginning of this week, the governor of Chubut, Ignacio Torres, signed a precautionary measure to complain to the Casa Rosada for the elimination of the Compensation Fund in the interior, a state assistance that implied a 55% discount on the transportation ticket rate. public.