Photo: Deliberative Council
The local Deliberative Council approved this afternoon the municipal accountability for the 2022 financial year, which had a planned budget of 27,127 million. The measure was accompanied en bloc by the 14 councilors of Together for Change, but was rejected by the 10 of the Frente de Todos.
At the start, the ruling party and the opposition crossed over the items destined for Health, Works and Community Development, where Peronism warned of the biggest cuts.
The president of the Finance Commission, Carla Fernández, was in charge of defending the numbers of the Commune, clarifying that, as in previous years, “in the 2022 budget the municipal Executive had to face an inflation of 95%, which represented a variation of more than 60% with respect to the national macrofiscal guideline, where it had been considered that it would be 33%”. This, he explained, forced them to make “disbursements greater than those projected, both in collection and in municipal spending, for which reason all the secretariats had to reallocate items to increase their funds in order to comply with his objectives”.
From the opposition, the president of the Frente de Todos bloc, Yanina Lamberti, pointed to the “underutilization of resources in a context of surplus”, while questioning that “more than $5000 million were not used” and that “key areas such as health were neglected , production, infrastructure works in education and community development”. She concluded, in this sense, that “the growing inequality in terms of infrastructure, services and access to rights in the population of La Plata finds some explanations in this lousy administration of resources.”
