The Buenos Aires governor Axel Kicillofpointed against the opposition for becoming “republicans” and “outraged” and asked that they “remember” the increase in co-participating funds to the City in 2016.
“In the opposition, Republicans and outraged become 75% because it was ‘an electoral promise,'” Kicillof highlighted.
It also included a video of former Interior Minister Rogelio Frigerio in TN where they ask him if former president Mauricio Macri was wrong with the increase in the mass of co-participating funds and affirmed: “When one does many things in so few days and is still settling in the management of the National Government, he makes mistakes and the good thing is recognize them and correct them quickly. We are going to issue a decree correcting the previous decree issued by the government. The president’s decision is to fulfill a campaign promise. We are going to correct the decree and we are going to make sure that the city of Buenos Aires will go strictly what corresponds to the transfer of the Police”.
And he closed: “Everything has to do with everything. The Court appointed by decree of Macri continues to defend the benefits by decree to the richest city in the country, to the detriment of the provinces. A filth.”
Likewise, earlier Kicillof had remarked that today “there are already 18 governors” who demonstrated against the ruling of the Supreme Court of Justice that ordered the Government to allocate 2.95% of the volume of co-participating taxes to the City of Buenos Aires .
“There are already 18 governors who denounce the partisan decision of the Supreme Court to benefit the head of government of the city and against all the provinces,” said the Buenos Aires president in reference to the governors: Gustavo Sáenz (Salta); Arabela Carreras (Black River); Omar Gutiérrez (Neuquén) and Oscar Herrera Ahuad (Misiones), who questioned the decision of the highest court.
In this way, these four leaders joined the other 14 who participated in yesterday’s meeting with the President -some in person, and others virtually- and who signed the statement released at the end of the meeting.
They are Kicillof (Buenos Aires), Raúl Jalil (Catamarca), Jorge Capitanich (Chaco), Mariano Arcioni (Chubut), Gustavo Bordet (Entre Ríos), Gildo Insfrán (Formosa), Sergio Ziliotto (La Pampa), Ricardo Quintela (La Rioja), Sergio Uñac (San Juan), Alberto Rodríguez Saá (San Luis), Alicia Kirchner (Santa Cruz), Gerardo Zamora (Santiago del Estero), Gustavo Melella (Tierra del Fuego), and Osvaldo Jaldo (Tucumán)
After that meeting, President Alberto Fernández decided to challenge the members of the Supreme Court of the Nation and present a request for revocation “in extremis” against the precautionary resolution issued by the highest court that ordered the Government to allocate 2.95% of the volume of co-participating taxes to the City of Buenos Aires, it was officially informed.
“In an unprecedented, incongruous, and impossible-to-enforce ruling, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, without justifying the way in which it builds said amount, decides to increase that percentage to 2.95; that is, it grants the City of Buenos Aires more than 180 billion pesos in addition to what it already receives,” argued the Government, through a statement, after the meeting held between the President and Peronist governors at the Government House.
