The
Chubut Legislature,
in full, supported Governor Ignacio Torres in his dispute with the national government over the retention of co-participation funds, estimated at $13.5 billion so far this year.
The provincial leader had
the support of all the local parliamentary blocs
, which intimated the Nation through a bill signed on Monday afternoon.
It was within the framework of
an extraordinary session called
, which was attended by the provincial legislators, the mayors of the Chubut municipalities and also the governor himself, who at 8:20 p.m. entered the premises and sat down on one of the benches, as as permitted by the provincial Constitution.
"Part of governing is explaining, and in a moment of so much uncertainty and virulence you have to be calm. In a moment of such strong attacks, the best and worst miseries of people emerge," Torres said at the beginning of a speech in the one who thanked his deputy governor, Menna.
"A governor has the obligation to defend the interests of his province, beyond the political sign of each municipality," said the governor, who highlighted the support of the mayors of districts governed by, for example, Peronism, exemplifying the case of Commodore Rivadavia.
And he maintained:
"I know that we are fighting for something fair, we are not begging for anything from the national government. We are going to go to the last consequences."
"This governor does not want to fight with anyone, I want to agree, but I am never going to let myself be pressured," said Torres
, who argued that the Government's decision to withhold funds from Chubut had nothing to do with it being governed by a leader of the PRO, but because they sought to "discipline" all the provinces through a "small" province.
"One of the comments they made was that Chubut is a Buenos Aires neighborhood, with 500,000 inhabitants. It is true, we are a small province, but
we know how to defend ourselves and we are going to do so to the last consequences
," he said, while receiving applause from those present. .
In the middle of his words, he hit the governor of Tucumán, Osvaldo Jaldo, because he was the only one who did not sign the request in favor of Chubut.
In the middle of his words, he hit the governor of Tucumán, Osvaldo Jaldo, because he was the only one who did not sign the request in favor of Chubut.
In addition, he directly questioned Javier Milei.
"How much hate can there be in a person who sarcastically tweets laughing at a boy with Down syndrome? What can happen to a person to have so much hate and resentment?" he said
, referring to a publication he liked on networks the President, in which a photo of Torres was retouched with the image of a boy with Down syndrome.
In parallel, in search of more support, Torres will gather the Patagonian governors in the Senate of the Nation this Tuesday.
He will be accompanied by Liberto Weretilneck (Río Negro), Claudio Vidal (Santa Cruz), Sergio Ziliotto (La Pampa), Rolando Figueroa (Neuquén) and Gustavo Melella (Tierra del Fuego), who together will give a press conference.
What does the Legislature's support text say?
Shortly before Torres' speech, the legislators had met.
"The Executive Branch is entrusted with the execution of all administrative, judicial actions and alternative means of conflict resolution that lead to
ending the illegality and abuse of the national Government,
by retaining funds that by right belong to the provincial State," he maintains. the first article of the text signed by seven representatives of the Chubut blocks.
In the second paragraph,
the criticism against the Executive is reinforced
.
"The provisions of the preceding article also imply the carrying out of actions of the same tenor aimed at the recovery of the resources corresponding to the month of February 2024 of the federal tax sharing regime, to those of article 9 of Law 26206 (Law of National Education) for the months of December 2023, January and February 2024; and the resources corresponding to the Public Transportation Compensation Fund", describes the document sanctioned in the Legislature.
It is signed by deputies Juan Horacio Pais, Daniel Hollmann, Emanuel Coliñir, Antonio Rubia, Andrés Toro, Luis Juncos and Andrea Aguilera, from the Despierta Chubut, Arriba Chubut and PICH blocks.
They did so prior to
the extraordinary session called by Torres
, who gave a speech in which he reviewed the financial situation of the province.
In the midst of crossed criticism between Torres and the President, the extraordinary session was called in the Legislature of Chubut, with the presence of the governor, who suspended a zoom that he had planned in the afternoon with governors and legislators from the PRO to deal with the situation. local.
This Monday, Torres made official the complaint that he will take to the provincial justice system and the Supreme Court for the withdrawal of co-participatory resources.
Between Sunday and Monday, a series of private chats were known that the governor PRO decided to publish through different provincial officials, such as the vice-governor Gustavo Menna and the Minister of Economy Facundo Ball.
The latter responded to a post by Minister of the National Interior Guillermo Francos and published the following.
"Mr. Minister, I want to add to your emails to expose the lies and bad faith of your government the messages that I have on my phone. And deny me if you did not communicate exactly the same thing to the governor, telling me that he is a politician and it is Milei's personal decision. ", heads in X the text published by Ball, addressed to Francos.
Menna responded to a series of emails posted by Francos.
"That email did not exist," the lieutenant governor published on Sunday afternoon.