In a session that lasted 22 hours, the ruling party managed to unanimously approve money laundering and the moratorium on tax debts in the Senate, but had a hard setback because it could not approve the reinstatement of the income tax and the reforms in Personal Assets, which were central axes of the Fiscal Package.
Santa Fe has three representatives within the Senate, Carolina Losada and Eduardo Garaletto, members of Together for Change, and Marcelo Lewandowski for the Frente de Todos. Both Losada and Galaretto supported the law, while Lewandoski spoke out against it.
The national senator for Santa Fe, Carolina Losada expressed during the session that “the Argentine people are making an enormous, brutal effort. I see people from the middle and lower social classes who want something to finally change in this country. Because of that hope of all those people, in which I include myself, “I’m going to vote positively for this law.”
In the same sense, he maintained that he does not believe that it is the perfect law, “but it is the law possible based on the great work that was done in the Deputies of those that we do not want to prevent, but rather contribute and what was done in the Senate of those that we want to contribute to make a better country.
“This government needs the tools to deploy the project that the people voted for. 56% of Argentines, whether we like the president or not, how he speaks or not, 56% of Argentines voted for it,” he said.
For its part, Marcelo Lewandowski, national senator for the Justicialist Party, said at the time of voting: “We have heard that ‘we have to give the president the tools’. I would love to do it, but since they are governing it is to continue breaking the State. We need to solve the country’s big problems, but the #LeyBases is not the way. This model is for a few.”
“There was not a single businessman who came here and did not raise the inconveniences of RIGI. We want large investments, but on equal terms with those who have been employing for decades. This economic matrix is one of primarization and extractive enclave. We already live it” he added .
Finally, he stated: “Our foreign policy? We do not enter the BRICS, where the emerging economies are. We fight with Brazil, a strategic partner; also with China. India invests in Acindar. Do we want to export to the European Union? Let’s go and We say that we do not believe in climate change…”.
Besides, the national senator Eduardo Galaretto, dsaid at the time of voting: “We have been a responsible opposition in our province and today we are a provincial government. We want to be responsible opponents of the Nation and we will see what the future holds for us. No impeding machine, no unnecessary delays, no blank checks.”
Another who expressed himself in this regard is Governor Maximiliano Pullaro who had expressed his support for the Base Law: “We hope that the Bases Law comes out, it is a very important law that will allow the national government to launch the State. It has been discussed since December, we have been working on this for six months”.
Furthermore, I had anticipated that they expected thatand “be an enriched law, which is not unilateral”, but rather that it has a general view of the political spaces that coexist in Parliament and the view that the different provincial governments have.”
On the other hand, he highlighted the importance of “carrying out a fiscal reform that allows us to have fiscal balance,” an aspect already applied in the province of Santa Fe. “The national government is doing it differently, adjusting a lot to the provinces and some sectors of society, but we believe that Argentina moves forward by strengthening the productive and educational system“added the governor.
Now, after the vote in the Senate was known, Pullaro expressed that There are many resources that were lost in the province, resources that came with support from the Nation. in different sectors such as public transportation, education, food, high-cost medicines and cut public works, which today are being supported with their own resources.
“We are repairing national routes with our own funds when it was not our responsibility. However, We are not going to stop defending the province and fighting for what belongs to us. The Province is not going to kneel before anyone, because it is the invincible province of Santa Fe, it is strong, with unique productive capacity; It has universities, knowledge. It is a province that manages to move forward, we are going to continue complaining and asking because we do not like Santa Fe to be left behind,” said the governor.
Regarding what was approved in the upper house, “national legislators understand why they did it that way, a modification had been made with respect to the initial one, increasing the non-taxable amounts. He income tax was something I didn’t like, it was time to record those who had the most and create a fund to get ahead and achieve that point and a half of the GDP to pay off the debt and get ahead. That wasn’t like that.”
