“The national government stopped enforcing the law with authoritarianism,” Gaido said.
The school affected by the adjustment
The national measure involved turning off the tap to the governors and mayors who are in charge of urban, interurban and medium-distance passenger transport services. In the case of the city of Neuquén, the Municipality had to assume the cost of 70% of the Cole systemof which before Milei I paid only 25%.
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Mariano Gaido with mayors from other cities in the country, in the National Congress.
Neuquén users pay a flat rate of $759 when The actual cost of the service is equivalent to $2400. The difference is the responsibility of the Municipality.
The situation in Neuquén capital is the same as what happens all municipalities with urban transport in charge. Since Milei assumed the national government, they stopped receiving the national contributions that are established by law.
Since then, the mayors have studied the alternatives they could follow to recover the money that the president took from them and concluded that The best option was to go to Congress to support their position with a Law. Among the options analyzed was the judicial routebut together they preferred to go through Congress.
This Tuesday, 23 communal leaders gathered at the Parliament headquarters to meet in the morning with deputies and in the afternoon with senators. In the group of mayors there are from all parties, except for the ruling party La Libertad Avanza, which does not have any large city Executive.
Only the libertarians were missing
On the side of the legislators, they listened to the mayor leaders of a range of parties that only lacked a pure and simple libertarian presence, because there were legislators from Macrismo who are completely aligned with Milei’s management who support the mayors on this issue.
The League of Mayors demands the equitable distribution of the Compensation Fund of Public Transportation to all cities.
The community leaders were received by the members of the Transportation Commission, to whom they gave a bill that proposes creating a “Federal Compensation Fund for Public Transportation Systems for Urban and Suburban Passengers in the interior of the country.”
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Sebastian Fariña Petersen
The main objective of this proposal is ensure equitable and federal distribution “of fare compensations” and strengthen “the public passenger transportation service systems of urban and suburban areas under municipal and provincial jurisdiction, with the exception of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and the Buenos Aires metropolitan area.”
Mayor Mariano Gaido was accompanied by the president of the Deliberative Council, Claudia Argumero and also by the national deputies of the province of Neuquén who joined the work meeting this morning.
The mayors who went to Congress
• Rosario RomeroMayor of Paraná
• Ulpiano SuarezMayor of Mendoza
• Pablo JavkinMayor of Rosario
• Daniel PasseriniMayor of Córdoba
• Marcos CastroMayor of Viedma
• Mariano GaidoMayor of Neuquén
• Gustavo SaadiMayor of Catamarca
• Raul JorgeMayor of Jujuy
• Juan Pablo PolettiMayor of Santa Fe
• Rodrigo ButelerMayor of Cipolletti
• Leonardo StelattoMayor of Posadas
• Martin PerezMayor of Rio Grande
• Damian BissMayor of Rawson
• Luciano di NapoliMayor Santa Rosa La Pampa
• Othar MacaharashviliMayor of Comodoro Rivadavia
• Jorge JofreMayor of Formosa
• Eduardo TassanoMayor of Currents
• Armando MolinaMayor of La Rioja
• Roy NikischMayor of Resistance
• Norma FuentesMayor Santiago del Estero
• Pablo GrassoMayor of Río Gallegos
• Guillermo MontenegroMayor of Mar del Plata
• Francisco Azcuemayor of Concordia
