The mayors of the interior of the country, among them Poletti, will go to Congress in search of funds for the transportation system

Mayors of the most important cities in the country They will march on Tuesday, June 4, towards the National Congress to demand the restitution of subsidies for urban passenger transport. The leaders of more than 20 localities released a statement this Wednesday in which they expressed the concern that exists in all these jurisdictions about the damages that resolution No. 4/2024 of the Ministry of Transportation of the Nation will cause.

The national regulations were known last Friday, and through it he set out an increase in subsidies allocated to the transportation system of the metropolitan area of ​​Buenos de Aires (Amba), which will receive $148,745,709,159 for the month of May and $160,777,188,169.00. for June 2024. The mayors also alluded to the elimination of the internal compensation fund carried out last January as another of the decisions of the president of Javier Milei that negatively impacts the rest of the country.

Urgent

“It is of urgent need urgently demand a direct contribution to the passenger transport system by buses in favor of the provinces and, thus, address a problem that concerns the entire country through a more federal distribution of national resources“, the mayors stressed.

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The statement – which carries the signature of 23 local leaders, among them the mayor of Santa Fe Juan Pablo Poletti- highlighted: “It is evident that The elimination of national subsidies in the interior of the country has exacerbated pre-existing conditions, seriously affecting all its localities. This measure has generated a notable uncertainty and worryboth in the business environment and in municipal and provincial governments. The absence of these subsidies has driven the urgent need to implement solutions that allow the maintenance of public transportation, through extraordinary municipal and provincial contributions, in addition to increases in the fare, which, in the interior, triples the values ​​of the Amb.to”.

In another paragraph of the note, the mayors highlighted: “Added to this issue is the fact of the increase in the commission that the Nation deducts from the jurisdictions, for the use of the Sube service, an increase from 4% to 7%, without having recorded the expected returns. In summary, the biased commitment of the National State in withdrawing subsidies has created a crisis that requires the adoption of immediate and concrete measures to restore the functionality and sustainability of public transportation in the interior of the country.

“This, added to lack of clear and effective communication, and the aforementioned measures of subsidizing only part of the national territory -Amba-, has only intensified these difficulties. For this reason, those of us who sign this letter inform that on Tuesday, June 4, we will go to the National Congress to raise the issue before the national legislators.

This is the list of the mayors who signed the statement:

• Rosario RomeroMayor of Paraná

• Ulpiano SuarezMayor of Mendoza

• Pablo Javkin, Mayor of Rosario

• Juan Pablo PolettiMayor of Santa Fe

• Daniel PasseriniMayor of Córdoba

• Marcos CastroMayor of Viedma

• Mariano GaidoMayor of Neuquén

• Gustavo Saadi, Mayor of Catamarca

• Raul JorgeMayor of Jujuy

• Rodrigo ButelerMayor of Cipolletti

• Leonardo StelattoMayor of Posadas

• Martin PerezMayor of Rio Grande

• Damian Biss Mayor of Rawson

• Luciano di Napoli, Mayor Santa Rosa La Pampa

• Othar Macaharashvili, IMayor of Comodoro Rivadavia

• Jorge JofreMayor of Formosa

• Eduardo Tassano, Mayor of Currents

• Armando MolinaMayor of La Rioja

• Roy Nikisch, Resistance Mayor

• Norma Fuentes, Mayor Santiago del Estero

• Pablo GrassoMayor of Río Gallegos

• Guillermo Montenegro, Mayor of Mar del Plata

• Francisco Azcuemayor of Concordia

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