With the aim of expanding the list of support for the Base Law and the tax reform,
the Government decided to postpone the meeting with the governors
that it had scheduled for this Monday.
The summit, called by the Minister of the Interior, Guillermo Francos, but which would be joined by the Chief of Staff, Nicolás Posse, and the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo;
It will be after Easter: it will probably be called for Thursday the 4th, also in the afternoon.
Nobody dares to rule out that Javier Milei decides to take charge of the meeting
("It depends on him, his agenda and the evaluation he makes of its convenience," they say), but so far the President's strategy has been to stay on the sidelines. and delegate dialogue with the opposition to their most trusted officials.
The argument they offered in the Casa Rosada to explain the postponement has to do with the intention of ensuring that all the governors of Together for Change are present, to give a strong message to the rest of the opposition ahead of the start of the debate in the Congress.
“We are postponing this Monday's meeting until April 4 so that all the Juntos governors can be present,” said a high-ranking official with an office at Balcarce 50. He thus confirmed the strategy of isolating and exposing the most radicalized leaders.
In fact, as Clarín reported, the Peronist governors aligned with Kirchnerism had not been invited for this Monday's meeting, starting with Axel Kicillof from Buenos Aires.
But until this Sunday afternoon, the Government had secured a discreet number of attendees
: the head of the Buenos Aires Government, Jorge Macri, the governor of Chubut, Ignacio Torres, Marcelo Orrego from San Juan, from San Juan, and Claudio Poggi from San Juan. .
The Government speculated that Claudio Vidal from Santa Cruz and Rolando Figueroa from Neuquén could also join virtually.
In this context, Francos contacted the governors and they agreed to set a new date, to which the leaders of the Radical Civic Union would join.
“The meeting was postponed due to the governors' agenda.
Some could come and others could not, so it was moved to next week,” he explained on Cadena 3.
There the projects that will reach Congress will be finished being polished.
In the meetings with the most dialogue-oriented sector of the opposition, the Casa Rosada had committed to formally sending both texts with the corrections that were made to the drafts that it sent to them in mid-March.
This delay could stretch the deadlines a bit.
However, in the PRO, the UCR and We Make the Federal Coalition, the largest blocks of the non-Kirchnerist opposition in the Chamber of Deputies warn that on April 17 the projects could reach the chamber to obtain half a sanction.
However,
the Government was betting on the meeting as an appetizer for Francos' trip to Salta, where he will meet with the governors of the Norte Grande.
”We traveled with the Secretary of the Treasury (Carlos Guberman) and the Deputy Chief of Staff (José Rolandi) to meet with a group of governors, to advance and understand their vision of the Base Law and the tax reforms,” Francos said.
Near Milei they are not too optimistic regarding the position of the Peronist governors, despite the good predisposition shown by some, such as the host of the summit Gustavo Sáenz.
However, it is not among the leaders of the North that the Government finds obstacles to the reversal of the changes in the Income tax promoted last year by Sergio Massa during the presidential campaign: it is the Patagonian governors, considered closest, who are They resist validating it.