The round of governors of the dialogue sector with the new Chief of Staff of Javier Milei, Guillermo Francoshad another chapter this afternoon. Osvaldo Jaldo, the Peronist leader of Tucumán, passed through the Hall of Shields of the Ministry of the Interior where its former owner still focuses his activities, with the intention of agreeing on the transfer of some public works that are paralyzed in the northern province. This week they also paraded through the same place Rogelio Frigerio (Between rivers), Carlos Sadir (Jujuy), Leandro Zdero (Chaco), who were there on Monday and Martin Llaryora (Cordova), Ignacio Torres (Chubut) and Rolando Figueroa (Neuquén), this Wednesday.
Both in the Chief of Staff and in the environment of Jaldo, one of the first governors who adhered to Milei’s ideas with strong cuts in the state plant that included an adjustment of more than 220 million pesos in the provincial coffers within a few days. to assume, They maintain that support for the Bases Law was not on the negotiating table.
Prior to this meeting, he had stated that the talk was going to revolve around “two or three ministries where we have some issues, both works and equipment with which the National Government is going to collaborate with the province of Tucumán.”
“The agreement that we are going to sign are the works that the Nation is responsible for and those that will be transferred to the province, so that we can finish them with provincial resources,” advance. This package would include the completion of routes 328 and 329 that cross the valleys of Tucuman and would serve to speed up the transportation of sugar cane and lemon production and also the expansion of the Villa Urquiza prison. “It is not part of the national government but it supports every initiative that it considers necessary. People are holding on because they have no other alternative,” they said close to the governor.
As an example, they cite that their three national deputies – Agustín Fernández, Gladys del Valle Medina and Elia Fernández de Mansilla – decided not to be present when the new retirement mobility formula was voted on Tuesday of this week, which is highly questioned by the ruling party.
Francos always showed himself, from his role in the Interior, as Milei’s political negotiator par excellence. Now with the Government’s need for the Base Law to finally have its approval in the Senate, its role appears even more preponderant. The fight in the Upper House will be vote by vote and these meetings serve, beyond the reactivation of public works appearing as the main issue, as a rapprochement of positions to finish convincing the most reluctant.
The reactivation of public works is a demand that the different provincial heads have been making because they consider that works with 40% completion could be completed with their own funds. Slowly the central administration is giving ground to decompress this situation.
Among the requests of some districts also appear the financial resources for the provincial retirement funds, that the National Educational Fund that Milei decided to cut be restored and that served, in large part, as an extra incentive for salaries in the teaching sector and that it be restore the Transportation Compensation Fund, whose elimination causes serious distortions in ticket prices compared to those of the AMBA.
Francos has already met with other provincial leaders for this reason who maintain a closer relationship with the Executive. On Monday of this week they stopped by his office – which is still in what was the Ministry of the Interior, his previous position – Rogelio Frigerio (Between rivers), Carlos Sadir (Jujuy) and Leandro Zdero (Chaco), with whom various agreements were signed for the transfer of 80 public works from the Nation to the provinces. He gave 14 works to Jujuy, 39 to Chaco and 27 to Entre Ríos.
Torres, who went to La Rosada this Wednesday, published on his account on the social network
“We are reactivating works in all regions, prioritizing health, education, security, services and road connectivity,” Figueroa published in the same tone.
For the next few days, another provincial leader who could be added to this list would be Maximiliano Pullaro, from Santa Fe. In the Chief of Staff, in a joking tone, they assure that “those who come to negotiate with (the Minister of Economy, Luis) Caputo, Sometimes they cross each other,” because La Rosada is just a few meters away.
