The Government managed
to contain the discomfort of the governors of Together for Change
, who from 2:30 p.m. visited the Casa Rosada to meet for an hour and a half with the Minister of the Interior,
Guillermo Francos,
and the Chief of
Staff, Nicolás Posse
. The provincial leaders attended the meeting with distrust and complaints about the
defunding of the retirement funds
that were not transferred to the Nation and to finish polishing
a fiscal package
that would alleviate their bills and that Javier Milei only plans to enable "
if the law is approved
"bus.
"
We have reached an agreement
with the governors present, who committed to supporting both projects," Francos said at the end of the meeting.
The President was not part of the party because he left for Ushuaia to meet with the head of the Southern Command,
Laura Richardson
. The governors left Balcarce 50 with promises and moderate optimism, and once again
expressed their support for the sanction of the Bases law, the fiscal package and the May Pact
promoted by the Government. "Our support is not tied to orders," said one of the leaders present. The ruling party wants to sanction the two laws before the end of the month.
The provincial executives demand solutions for public works with international financing, other priorities and more benevolent treatment from La Rosada for its support. "
They can't treat us the same as those who oppose everything
," complained one governor.
Some leaders reminded the ministers that the closest discussion will take place in the Senate, where DNU 70/23 found a brake. Francos is already active in persuading the necessary upper house legislators, as is Vice President Victoria Villarruel.
The meeting had originally been scheduled for
Monday of last week
, but the Government
decided to reschedule it
so that the 4 radical governors who had not been invited previously could attend. The provincial leaders of the former Cambiemos alliance prefer to negotiate their demands as a unified bloc.
The head of the Buenos Aires Government,
Jorge Macri
, who at the same time was holding a meeting alone with the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, over the
co-participation debt
that the City is claiming, was the only one absent and was represented by the vice-chief,
Clara. Muzzio, the only woman at the meeting held in the Hall of Shields.
Maximiliano Pullaro
from Santa Fe
, who in the afternoon will hold a meeting with
Patricia Bullrich
to supervise the Security operation in Rosario;
Gustavo Valdés
from Corrientes
; Leandro Zdero
from Chaco
;
Rogelio Frigerio
from Entre Ríos and
Ignacio Torres
from Chubut
had already made public their complaints due to doubts surrounding the financing of the retirement funds of their provinces.
So far this year
they have not received a peso
and a new DNU - which eliminated the Budget articles referring to these transfers - raised more doubts, although Francos guaranteed that the funds will appear and be transferred when ANSES finishes
an audit
. The governors did not rule out
new actions before the Supreme Court
or the Federal Justice to claim for the funds. The topic was discussed at the meeting. "They said it was a mistake and I believe them. It seems to me that there is going to be a slap on the wrist," a provincial leader told
Clarín
.
Sources who participated in the meeting assured that Francos and Posse, who were accompanied by the Secretary of the Interior,
Lisandro Catalán,
and by the Deputy Chief of Staff,
José Rolandi,
told the governors that they will propose a
new floor to collect the tax again. the earnings
. The non-taxable minimum of $1,200,000 would no longer apply: it would be much higher and the percentages to be paid lower, but there were no further details. The entire tax chapter in which money laundering was incorporated will be added to the new reform of the personal income tax, the new name of Profits.
The reversal of the fourth category of the tax divided the governors. In the JxC lot, only Torres - like the rest of the Patagonian leaders - opposes the reversion. The Government never enabled the economic commission that the Secretary of the Treasury, Carlos Guberman, would chair. At this Thursday's meeting at La Rosada there were no Luis Caputo delegates.
Several of the JxC executives demand that the Government enable works with financing committed to multilateral organizations or transfer priority ones to the provinces so that they can push
public-private financing
. "There was talk of public works. The Government wants to reach fiscal balance, which has been achieved, we all celebrate it, but we must attend to works, such as ports and routes to generate foreign currency. We brought a proposal: that Chubut take charge of national works, like 3, which is in poor condition, and that the Nation commits to recognizing that debt," Torres said. Santa Fe promotes a similar idea.
"We are going to follow the Base Law,
we hope they give us the definitive text
," said Pullaro before entering. They will only receive the project next week, when the Government finishes polishing it after listening to the suggestions of the "dialogue" blocs and before it reaches the General Legislation Commission of Deputies.
The arrival of Maximiliano Pullaro from Santa Fe. Photo Federico López Claro
The provincial leaders of JxC previously held a
meeting via zoom
to unify their agenda. In the lot completed by the aforementioned governors and the three Cuyans, Alfredo Cornejo, from Mendoza; Marcelo Orrego, from San Juan; and Claudio Poggi, from San Luis, distrust prevailed. “We went in there and everything was fine, we left happy. But when we go out there is always a Tuesday the 13th,” said one of them.
In the Government
they minimized the short circuits
with the governors and their public complaints. “When they come here, they tell us that everything is fine and that they want to give the President tools,” they say.
The arrival of Gustavo Valdés. Photo Federico López Claro
With the update of the retirements partially resolved by DNU - some opponents consider it insufficient - that the dialogue blocs and the JxC governors advised, the Government finalizes its round of consultations with governors that
Francos and Posse began on March 8
.
Since then, Milei delegates
received the deputies
willing to approve the basic law and the governors in batches. He held a meeting with the
executives of the north
, where there were two tough opponents such as Gildo Insfrán (Formosa) and Ricardo Quintela (La Rioja) and separately received Rolando Figueroa (Neuquén), Claudio Vidal (Santa Cruz), Alberto Weretilneck (Río Negro ).
For now, the Government has not maintained or explored bilateral agreements with
Martín Llaryora (Córdoba), Axel Kicillof (Buenos Aires), Sergio Ziliotto (La Pampa) and Gustavo Melella
(Tierra del Fuego). Close to the Cordoba president - who is willing to support the Omnibus Law (whose previous version confronted him with the Rosada) and asks for a higher floor for Profits - they are still waiting for a call from the Rosada. “It happens that we don't fit in with those from the North, nor with those from Patagonia, and the other two from the center are today like Juntos,” they ironically said in those around Llaryora.