The legal presentation also affects the Minister of Economy Luis Caputo and the president of Banco Nación, Daniel Tillard. They demand payment of 2.95% of the co-participating funds to the City of Buenos Aires.
Facundo del Gaiso, María Cecilia Ferrero and Hernán Reyes, three of the representatives of the Civic Coalition in the Buenos Aires legislature, today presented a criminal complaint against President Javier Mileithe Minister of Economy, Luis Caputoand the president of Banco Nación, Daniel Tillardfor failing to comply with a ruling of the Supreme Court of Justice that ordered the Government to transfer 2.95% of the co-participation funds to the City of Buenos Aires.
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Although they had already made this complaint in December 2022 against the national authorities at that time, now presented an expansion and update which will be processed in the National Court of First Instance for Federal Criminal and Correctional Matters No. 6, by Ariel Lijounder file CFP 4692/2022.
“On December 10, 2023, there was a change of government in our country, however, to date, the national authorities continue to fail to comply with what was ordered by the Supreme Court“said the legislators’ text.
Jorge Macri emphasized the demand for co-participation: “I think it’s time”
In their presentation, the legislators of the Civic Coalition included a quote from the head of the Buenos Aires Government, Jorge Macri, who also repeatedly demanded the transfer of co-participating funds. “Regarding my relationship with the national government, it is good, but still owes us in the co-participationI think that it’s time. The national government is already established, six months have also passed for them and There is a Court ruling and I think it would be good for them to start paying the people of Buenos Aires the money that corresponds to them due to the Court’s ruling.“.
“Yes, there is dialogue, but it needs to be into a concrete agreement that begins to solve that problem. “It is an issue because it is a lot of money for the City and the city in this degree of crisis takes care of many things,” added the Buenos Aires president in the aforementioned radio interview on June 15.
Jorge Macri had also referred to the issue in his presentation at the 41st Annual Congress of the Argentine Institute of Finance Executives, where he emphasized: “We continue waiting for co-participation funds from the national government set by the Court’s ruling. It is time for it to be fulfilled, they are resources that we need and that correspond to us constitutionally.”
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The dispute continues between the Nation and the City over the 2.95% of the co-participation
The Until now, the City of Buenos Aires has stopped receiving about $720,000 million since Milei took office in December 2023 due to non-compliance with the ruling, a situation that in reality It has been dragging since December 2022during the administration of Alberto Fernández.
That same year, the Court ruled in favor of the City of Buenos Aires in the claim for the reduction of the co-participation that the faced the national governmentafter Alberto Fernández’s decision at that time to transfer those funds to finance a increase to the Buenos Aires Police and thus resolve a conflict with Governor Axel Kicillof.
The highest court issued a precautionary measure by which it ordered that 2.95% of the mass of co-participable funds is delivered to the City of Buenos Aires (CABA requests 3.50% in the substantive claim that will continue to be processed in Justice) and that said transfers be made in daily and automatically by the Banco de la Nación Argentina.
Among the arguments of the ruling, it was pointed out that the transfers of powers, services or functions are processes that are carried out through concerted acts of the National State and the City of Buenos Aires, which It did not happen between the then authorities Alberto Fernández and Horacio Rodríguez Larreta.
