This was anticipated in messages that he issued this morning through the social network Twitter, in which he stated that the national State had been “notified” of the precautionary measure of the Supreme Court of Justice in favor of the City of Buenos Aires on Wednesday past, for which he indicated that he ordered to reallocate the “only resources available for the year 2022” and transfer to a Banco Nación account in the name of the Buenos Aires Government, for which “TX31 bonds will be used.”
“I am convinced that the resolution lacks the grounds required for any judicial decision and therefore is flawed, affects the legitimate rights of the Argentine provinces and breaks the equality on which federalism is based in our National Constitution,” said the president. .
The president pointed out that the “public policies established by the National Executive Branch (PEN) are applied throughout the national territory; therefore, if the Nation’s resources are affected, the management of the national State in the Argentine provinces will obviously suffer. and they will be harmed.”
In parallel, he pointed out that the “current state of public accounts and the respect due to the Argentine legal system mean that the resolution issued by the Supreme Court, acting as a single instance, is today a matter of impossible compliance.”
The president stated that “in the face of a precautionary decision that violates the division of powers and lacks sufficient foundation, as President of the Nation I have provided the only possible and reasonable remedy in these circumstances, until the substantive issue is resolved or Congress dictates a law”. At this point and in line with what he had anticipated after a meeting he held with 14 governors after the ruling, the President reported today that he instructed the Treasury attorney, Carlos Zannini, to present a “revocation appeal’ in extremis’ against the judicial decision taken, in order to review the precautionary measure provided”. precautionary measure, have prejudged the national State, harming its accounts and affecting the resources of the 23 Argentine provinces”. The head of state also highlighted that the “decisions Judicial procedures are mandatory even when it deems them disvaluable and unfair”. In this context, he clarified that, “respectful of the rule of law”, he will seek to “reverse the bad resolution of the Court and return to the path of federalism observing and having the Constitution observed as I have sworn to do.” “I must also respect the laws in force,” he said, and then quoted: “Article 22 of Law 23,982 indicates that the payments ordered to the National State by court order must be provided for in the Budget Law.” On this point, the president warned that “neither the 2022 nor the 2023 Budget, voted by a large majority, provides for these payments.” an account of Banco Nación in the name of the GCBA”, and anticipated that “TX31 bonds will be used and will be made available for compliance with the precautionary measure that we are challenging”. us, the money corresponding to 90 days of validity of the precautionary measure, pending the final ruling, or a law of Congress that assigns the pertinent budgetary resources to this payment.” On this point, he explained that the bonds consigned “already were accepted by the Court to meet the debt of the national State with the province of Santa Fe” and added that, “being so, there would be no injury to the right granted to the CABA, unless the court believes that there are first class cities and provinces At the same time, the President reported that he had instructed the Ministry of the Economy to send Congress a bill to be discussed in “extraordinary sessions” and to “provide budgetary resources necessary to make it possible to comply with the legal mandate as provided by law 23,982 in its article 22.”” Said norm must preserve the current federal system; not affect the rights recognized to the Argentine provinces and compensate the losses that this precautionary measure causes them,” said the head of state.
