In advance of the meeting that he will hold with
20 governors and four vice-governors
from 3 p.m., the Minister of the Interior received
Miguel Angel Pichetto
in his office in the Casa Rosada.
The head of the We Make Federal Coalition bloc arrived alone in La Rosada and left shortly after noon.
The deputy for Río Negro had been absent from the suggestive meeting held
on Thursday afternoon
by Francos, the head of the Lower House
Martín Menem, Santiago Caputo
and the block heads of the UCR Rodrigo de Loredo and the PRO,
Cristian Ritondo
and which served as a prelude to the governors' summit in the Eva Perón Room of the Casa Rosada.
The reason was the same: to discuss the content of the new omnibus law and the incorporation of the fiscal chapter, which will no longer include an increase in withholdings.
The ruling party seeks to secure the key votes for the
most important reforms
that it wants to sanction in Congress after the failure of the Bases law that contained them:
pension calculation changes, labor reform, hydrocarbon and mining deregulation, a special regime for large investments, the essentiality
of Education and the delegation of powers to the President and the advancement of privatizations.
In addition to the pre-announced absence of
Alfredo Cornejo from Mendoza, who is at a mining fair in Canada and will send his deputy governors Hebe Casado, it was confirmed that due to the security crisis that his province is going through
, Maximiliano Pullaro
from Santa Fe will not be in the game either
.
His second will be represented
by Gisela Scaglia
, from the PRO, who this week added a photo with
Mauricio Macri
who seeks to capitalize on the Santa Fe internal party of his.
Ricardo Quintela
from Rioja
, perhaps the governor most opposed to the Government, will send his second,
Teresita Madera, as will Gildo Insfrán from Formosa, who will be represented by his vice president
Ebers Solís.
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Mauricio Macri asked Javier Milei to lift the retentions on the countryside and sent a message to the governors for the May Pact.
As
Clarín reported
,
Axel Kicillof
always planned to attend the call, despite the verbal pyrotechnics with which he discredited the May Pact that the President called in front of the Legislative Assembly on March 1.
"Start if I don't arrive," he had said.
Francos also questioned his presence.
Sergio Ziliotto, from La Pampa, also confirmed his attendance.
The provincial leaders of Peronism
discussed a common position via zoom
.
The Government wants to move forward with the
restitution of Profits
to compensate the provinces, which - with the exception of the Tucumán collaborative - no longer receive Advances from the National Treasury.
In the Executive they do the math and take note that there are several provincial leaders who expressed themselves in favor of the reinstatement of the fourth category of the tax, due to the weight it has in their public accounts and because it would affect few taxpayers in their respective provinces.
The governors of Patagonia stated on Thursday at the
Puerto Madryn summit
that they also oppose this solution in a scenario of high inflation.
The underlying discussion is also who will assume the political cost compared to one million Argentines who would pay the tax again.
The Government does not rule out that President Javier Milei joins the meeting, as he did on December 19.
In addition to Francos, there will be the Chief of Staff Nicolás Posse, an official closest to the President's small table made up of Santiago Caputo and Karina Milei.
Their respective vice ministers, José Rolandi and Lisandro Catalán, will also be present.
Representing the Minister of Economy Luis Caputo who traveled to Punta Cana to the IDB Annual Assembly, will be the Secretary of the Treasury
Carlos Guberman
, who on Thursday held a technical meeting with the 24 provincial ministers.