Gustavo Sáenz (Salta), Arabela Carreras (Río Negro), Omar Gutiérrez (Neuquén) and Oscar Herrera Ahuad (Misiones) joined the repudiation of the rest of the governors. Through a statement, the decision of the Court that gives 2.95% more of the co-participation to the City of Buenos Aires.
“The governors of the Argentine Republic who signed this communiqué, express our concern about the decision of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (CSJN) that assigns amounts that disproportionately increase the funds of the City of Buenos Aires to the detriment of of funds corresponding to the Argentine Nation as a whole”, the text begins.
And they add: “The jurisdictional transfer of the Police, from the federal orbit to the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, carried out in the year 2016, is a fact whose costs were determinable, and that it was irrefutably demonstrated that the original transfer of national funds to CABA, was higher than what was necessary to absorb the police transfer. On the other hand, it is important to note that this is a circumstance that is common to all provinces: paying our own police with our resources.”
“We are convinced that no jurisdiction, in this case CABA, should receive resources above the real cost of the new responsibilities assigned to it; but we also firmly maintain that these national funds, when they are withdrawn, must inevitably be distributed equally. absolutely federal and equitable among all the jurisdictions that make up the Argentine Nation,” state the provincial leaders.
These four governors joined the other 14 who participated in the meeting with the President. They are Axel 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).
Except for the opposition governors, all the provinces are united in rejecting the impartial attitude of the Supreme Court that seeks to favor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta one year after the elections.
