Meanwhile, in the city of Santa Fe, Companies try to obtain resources to pay salaries, whose payment deadline expires on Thursday of this week. As commented to AIR business sources, until now, no funds have arrived from the Municipality of Santa Fe.
In this regard, the companies once again requested extraordinary financial aid from the municipality. It is worth mentioning that in the month of June, The salary must be paid with the agreed increases in equal amounts and the half bonus.
Santa Fe buses line 3.jpg
The UxP deputy and former Minister of Transportation, Diego Giuliano, stressed that the expectation is to achieve a law “that establishes the Transportation Compensation Fund.”
The mayors in the Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine Nation
The local leaders will be received by the members of the Transportation Commission of the Chamber of Deputies of the Nation and in that context, we will seek to agree on strategic criteria and unify projects presented.
The national representative for Santa Fe de Union for the Homeland (UxP), Eduardo Toniolliexplained to AIR that until now there are two possible solutions: achieve a synthesis of the initiatives presented that propose an equitable distribution of subsidies between the AMBA and the interior of the country, or move towards the rejection of the DNU 280/24by which the Transportation Compensation Fund.
READ MORE ► Transportation subsidies: with the presence of Poletti, mayors from all over the country travel to Congress this Tuesday
“We understand that we not only have to go to the Congresswhere majorities can be promoted and different policies regarding subsidies can be achieved, but rather all go together, mayors and national legislators to Pink Housebecause we understand that there is a pre-announcement of Milei “that he will veto everything that comes out of Congress and that affects everything that he considers his cash.”he warned.
For his part, the UxP deputy and former Minister of Transportation, Diego GiulianoHe stressed that the expectation is to achieve a law “to establish the Transportation Compensation Fund”.
For her part, the Socialist deputy, Monica Feinrecognized that “It is not easy for them to prosper” the projects that are in motion in the lower house committees, although he challenged: “We have to gather majorities.”
Complaint Transportation Network of Mayors.pdf
How much did Santa Fe contribute for the gasoline tax and how much did it return in transportation subsidies
Regarding the contributions that Santa Fe residents make through gasoline taxes, the secretary of Transportation and Logistics of the province, Renata Ghilottiexplained that “From the beginning of the year until now there are 27,900 million pesos – of taxes on gasoline – and zero pesos returned to the province of Santa Fe in terms of contributions to transportation. Therefore, it is important to have this discussion and for the governor Maximiliano Pullaro is carrying it forward and that, in each of the meetings, even in the framework of political discussion on the Base Law and on the future May Pact, we are demanding and putting on the table this issue that we have not abandoned beyond the administrative claims already formulated.”
READ MORE ► The national government eliminated the Transportation Compensation Fund and will stop financing the Santa Fe Retirement Fund
“We are not asking for crumbs or a favor to be returned to us, but rather we contribute in taxes on fuel throughout the province of Santa Fe: when we load fuel in our private vehicle, when the trucks that carry and bring the cargo to the ports load fuel, taxes are paid to a national fund that ends up subsidizing transportation in the City of Buenos Aires and its metropolitan area. And this means that a person from Buenos Aires or Buenos Aires travels with a bus cost three or four times less than what a person from Santa Fe or Rosario pays in their city,” the official noted.
wait for bus line 9 in aristobulo del valle.jpg
There are two ways: achieve a synthesis of the initiatives that propose an equitable distribution of subsidies between the AMBA and the interior of the country, or move towards the rejection of DNU 280/24.
Santa Fe Air
Mayors from all over the country travel to Congress this Tuesday
The concern of the different local authorities about the elimination of subsidies for transportation in the interior continues after the national government made the decision to expand them for the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA).
In this context, a large group of mayors travel to the Federal Capital this Tuesday with the aim of jointly claiming for the restitution of the funds. Among those present will be the mayor of the city of Santa Fe, Juan Pablo Poletti.
READ MORE ► Discrimination, in figures: how much Santa Fe contributed for the gasoline tax and how much it returned in transportation subsidies
After the resolution that benefits the AMBA, the mayors issued a statement in which they express “the imperative need to 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”.
“It is evident that the elimination of national subsidies in the interior of the country has exacerbated pre-existing conditions, seriously affecting all localities. This measure has generated notable uncertainty and concern, both in the business community and in municipal and provincial governments. “they explained.
Poletti
A group of mayors travel to the Federal Capital with the objective of jointly demanding the restitution of the funds. Among those present will be the mayor of the city of Santa Fe, Juan Pablo Poletti.
READ MORE ► Poletti confirmed the increase in bus fares in Santa Fe and assured: “The equation doesn’t work”
And they assured: “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 AMBA”.
“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”concludes the text, which bears the signature of 23 mayors.
