The “dialogue” governors were left without the May Pact and, for now, also without the restitution of the co-participating funds of the Income Tax. Social protests in Misiones are spiraling and, without help from the Nation, the provinces fear a contagion effect due to the difficulty in paying salaries, and bonuses next month, to state workers.
Until last night, the provincial leaders closest to the Casa Rosada were waiting for Javier Milei to summon them to Córdoba next Saturday to sign the May Pact. A document that beyond the symbolic, opened the way to rediscuss the distribution of games in a league made up of governors from the PRO, the UCR and provincial parties.
Governors move
But it was the President himself who triggered the birth of this incipient league that, little by little, begins to build communicating vessels with the governors of the PJ. In just one week, Axel Kicillof visited Ignacio Torres (PRO) in Chubut and Maximiliano Pullaro (UCR) in Santa Fe.
Last night in a television interview, the President referred to the rearrangements in the league of governors and Kicillof’s contacts with a sector of the “dialoguists.” “Larreta also had photos with Massa and no one said anything. That’s good, that will ensure us a lot of liberalism for a long time,” the head of state mocked.
On Saturday, Milei will appear in Córdoba without the governors. Without the base law and fiscal package, there is no May Pact. A decision by the Casa Rosada that exposes on the surface the broken ties and lack of trust between the Casa Rosada and the provinces. With the projects already voted on in Deputies, this week La Libertad Avanza will try to issue an opinion with modifications in a plenary session of Senate committees.
Pressure from Javier Milei
But in the Upper House the resistance is not only Kirchnerist. Beyond the 33 senators led by Jose Mayans, neither the UCR nor the PRO nor the provincial parties are willing to approve the initiatives as they came from Deputies. Disengaged from domestic politics, the President directly blamed Guillermo Francos, Minister of the Interior, for the future of the parliamentary battle: “That is an issue that…, let’s see, that is an issue, I would tell him that he has to talk about it.” with Minister Francos because he is the one who leads, let’s say, the score of the negotiation.”
“The problem would be that Milei now goes out to break up or interfere in the negotiation with the excuse that the May Pact was not made. The situation is critical in many provinces and the case of Misiones could be replicated in other districts,” explained a governor who, like the missionary Hugo Passalacqua, is a member of the league of dialogueists, when asked by Ámbito.
“I feel that many are not up to the task and that they continue to support recipes that lead to failure, but that generate success personally; something that they couldn’t get either in the private sector or anywhere in the world, right? But that’s what we’re here for, we got here, in this mud, to fight,” Milei warned this morning in a message to the governors.
Without the May Pact, more whip
The President thus ratified one of the main fears of the provinces. Without a base law, the Casa Rosada will continue with the fiscal whip to cut items outside of Congress. “We are not going towards the pact and perhaps the pact is made in June or it is made in July; That is, what I want to say is the following: We have designed 4,000 structural reforms, between the DNU and the Bases Law, 1,000 reforms came out; Well, we believe that those that have to come out will come out and once those come out we will go for more structural reforms. In other words, our vocation for change is not going to change, so there will be a first stage from which things will emerge and then we will continue moving forward; In other words, we are not going to give up on making Argentina the freest country in the world. So, it will be sooner, later, with more collaboration or with less collaboration on the part of politics, with politics sabotaging, but we are not going to stop at that,” assured the President. (ambito.com)
