The governors of Córdoba, Martin Llaryorto; from Santa Fe, Maximilian Pullaro; and from Entre Rios, Rogelio Frigeriomembers of the Center Regionsigned yesterday a declaration to complain to the national government of Javier Milei for non-compliance with the legal commitment to finance the deficits of the pension systems of the three provinceswhich were not transferred to the national level.
This situation is a common problem, and through this document signed by the leaders The aim is to demand compliance with current regulations without confrontation or dispute, but rather through the willingness to achieve a fair balance of the interests at stake..
Only in the case of the province of Córdoba, the debt at updated values amounts to more than 431,000 million pesos, of which almost 68,000 million correspond to the period from January to June of this year, and more than 74,000 million to the period of May. to December 2023.
On the other hand, the Nation maintains a debt with the Province of 288,000 million pesos, which is in judicial proceedings, and corresponds to the periods 2020, 2021, 2022 and from January to April 2023.
“Beyond being three governors from different political spaces, we are putting the interests of the Central Region above any ideological issue. And those are the interests of each of our people, because the retirement issue becomes a central issue and we must begin to give it concrete definitions,” defined Llaryora.
The three leaders expressed their willingness to establish forums for dialogue to achieve the objectives set out within the framework of the postulates of a federalism of concertation, and thus seek alternative solutions to the issue raised urgently in order to avoid further damage.
For this reason, it seeks to address, jointly and by consensus with the National State, the problem of financing the deficits of the pension systems, so as to guarantee the sustainability of the aforementioned systems, the rights of retirees and pensioners, and equal and equitable treatment with the rest of the provinces that transferred their pension systems to the federal level.
It should be noted that the national government has the obligation to comply with the aforementioned financing, in order to maintain the equality of all provinces in terms of pensions, since in those that did transfer their respective systems, their systems are supported with national funds.
“They are sending us zero pesos”
In this regard, Llaryora maintained that “now they are not even complying with the sending of the funds that have to be automatic. This never happened. Because the taxes are paid, they reach the Anses, but they are sending us zero pesos.”
Llaryora, Pullaro and Frigerio agreed that this claim must be supported by the legislators of the three provinces. «Today we are supporting governability, but this issue cannot stand any longer. We have done many things with internal duties in each of our coffers, making a historic economic effort,” emphasized the Córdoba governor.
The declaration also establishes that until adequate, viable and fair solutions are reached for the issues described, each of the provinces will initiate and/or continue with the relevant claims and actions, in defense of their own rights and those of their respective citizens.
In turn, the governor of Entre Ríos highlighted that “we are united by this historic claim, that the provinces that have decided not to transfer their provincial pension fund have equitable treatment with those that did do so. It is a forceful and precise claim, we want what corresponds to us by law, we want to correct this error through dialogue, through seeking consensus, explaining the problem and trying to make the national authorities understand it.”
For his part, his counterpart from Santa Fe “We are going to continue raising this before the National Government, but there is an arbitrator who is the Supreme Court of the Nation. The different national governments always put their hands into the same boxes, making cuts to the productive interior of Argentina and to those of us who permanently do our homework.”
The governor was accompanied by the president of the Retirement, Pension and Retirement Fund of Córdoba, Adrián Daniele; the provisional president of the Legislature, Facundo Torres Lima; and the Secretary of Regional Integration, Carlos Massei.
