More of 20 mayors of the main cities Argentina announced that On Tuesday, June 4, they will go to Congress for claim for him transport subsidy that the national government increased for the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) and eliminated for the rest of the country.
The governors already They had rejected the reduction of the Interior Transportation Compensation Fund. Now, the claim of the communal chiefs threatens to sneak into the debate of the Bases Law in the Senate, where the ruling party negotiates – until now with some difficulties – the modifications with the dialogue opposition.
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One more time, a complaint to Javier Milei adds leaders of different political forces. As has been happening with the provincial leaders, now it is the mayors who decided to join forces to press for a common claim.
“He biased commitment of the National State to withdraw subsidies has created a crisis which requires the adoption of immediate and concrete measures to restore the functionality and sustainability of public transportation in the interior of the country,” the community leaders stated in the letter.
As far as he could know TNthey also hope that Guillermo Francos receives his claims. The dialogueists trust that he can intervene, but the Peronists believe that the Minister of the Interior has his hands tied by the Milei adjustment program and that the return of subsidies will not be part of the bargaining chips.
The mayors Rosario Romero signed the letter (Parana); Ulpiano Suarez (Mendoza), Pablo Javkin (rosary beads), Daniel Passerini (Cordova), Marcos Castro (Viedma), Mariano Gaido (Neuquen), Gustavo Saadi (Catamarca), Raúl Jorge (Jujuy), Juan Pablo Poletti (Santa Fe), Rodrigo Buteler (Cipolletti), Leonardo Stelatto (Inns), Martin Perez (Rio Grande), Damián Biss (Rawson), Luciano di Napoli (Santa Rosa La Pampa), Othar Macaharashvili (Comodoro Rivadavia), Jorge Jofre (Formosa), Eduardo Tassano (Currents), Armando Molina (The Rioja), Roy Nikisch (Endurance), Norma Fuentes (Santiago del Estero), Pablo Grasso (Rio gallegos), Guillermo Montenegro (Mar del Plata) and Francisco Azcue (Concord).
A historical claim that deepens
Although the note was signed by 23 mayors, some of them do not agree with the mobilization to Congress and They are committed to building bridges of dialogue, as in the case of Montenegro from Mar del Plata. According to what they said, inequality in subsidies was not born with the Milei Government and it is a claim that has been coming for a long time, but that they can’t get it attended to.
The problem that has arisen now is that the libertarian administration put an end to the compensation fundwith which they could maintain some stability in rates, although with a significant gap with the AMBA.
For Maximiliano Pullaro, mayor of Santa Fe and one of the dialogue members, what was announced “It is an incomprehensible error of the national government that repeats the scheme of the government of Alberto Fernández and Cristina Kirchner.”
The mayors of the interior will go to Congress (Photo: AP).
“The Mayors of the capitals and main cities of the Argentine interior we are more worried every day so what happens with funds for urban transportation. We must find equitable and fair solutions, Argentina is only one,” he stated. Passerini.
According to the mayor of Cordoba, “the interior contributes to a specific background to be distributed from the Nation”, but questioned that “it has been inequitable (85% AMBA, 15% for the entire interior).”
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“The latest decision of the Ministry of Transportation of the Nation, eliminates subsidies for the interior, while increasing the benefit to AMBA. Faced with this act discriminatory and unfair For the Argentines in the interior, we will meet next June 4 with the representatives in the National Congress. In my case, I will defend the interests of the people of Córdoba, we need and deserve concrete solutions,” Passerini wrote on his social network account. x.
Grasso He also called the decision “a new anti-federal and discriminatory resolutionthe national government”, while Romanhis counterpart from Paraná, stated that “the distribution of funds from the national government should respect the equity and rights of all Argentines, regardless of the city where they live.”
The claim from the interior reaches Congress
The mayors signed the joint statement “on the occasion of the recent Resolution No. 4/2024, issued by the Ministry of Transportation of the Nation, by which an increase in subsidies was provided for urban passenger transportation of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Areamore precisely, disbursing $148,745,709,159 for the month of May and $160,777,188,169 for June 2024; and, in turn, taking into account the elimination of the compensation fund of the interior carried out in the month of January of the current”.
In this context, they said that “it is of urgent need claim by way of urgent direct contribution to the passenger transport system by groups in favor of provinces and, thus, address a problem that concerns the entire country through a -more- federal distribution of national resources.”
“It is evident that the elimination of national subsidies in the interior of the country has exacerbated pre-existing conditions, seriously affecting all its locations. This measure has generated notable uncertainty and concern, both in the business environment and in municipal and provincial governments,” they stated.
Furthermore, they noted that “the absence of these subsidies has driven the urgent need for implement solutions that allow the sustainability of transportation public, through extraordinary municipal contributions and 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 registered the returns planned.”
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“Added to the lack of clear and effective communication, and the aforementioned measures of subsidize “Only part of the national territory -AMBA-, has only intensified these difficulties”they insisted.
For this reason, they announced that on Tuesday, June 4, they will go to the National Congress “to raise the issue before national legislators.” “The objective of the mobilization will be to send legislators the details of the claim.”he explained Javkin.
