While the president Javier Miley He appeared briefly on Monday with the governor of Corrientes, Gustavo Valdesthis Tuesday his Minister of the Interior, Guillermo Francosthe main interlocutor with the governors and who also accompanied him on the visit to Corrientes, will meet in Salta with the leaders of that province, Gustavo Saenz; from Tucumán, Osvaldo Jaldo; from Catamarca, Raúl Jalil; of Missions, Hugo Passalaquaand the vice of Jujuy, Carlos Haquim. Both events occur just hours apart and after weeks of extreme tension with the governors due to the debates surrounding the fallen omnibus law. The Casa Rosada’s strategy is to reopen the dialogue, but it will not be with everyone.
“It is not all the same and they are not all the same”, official sources distinguished about the role of the governors. The tense treatment of the Bases law is still fresh in the ruling party, which they are betting on resending again, as confirmed last night by the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo.
“In institutional terms there are no problems, the only issue is that there are political differences on how to move forward with the changes that the country needs: they think about the provincial funds, we think about the progress of Argentina,” he described to THE NATION an important source of the Casa Rosada in reference to provincial leaders. To then distinguish between the different leaders: “The one who understands the situation of the country is not the same as the one who is playing a game.” not holy”.
In line with a widespread concept among those who know the details of the comings and goings of the negotiations with the governors that took place these last two months, other sources graphed: “The governors’ is not a granite block. It is not like this”.
“The (Osvaldo) Jaldo or (the governor of Mendoza, Alfredo) Cornejo of life are not the same as the Llaryora”, in reference to the harmony with the first two and the differences with the Cordoban, who even made harsh warnings about what he believes may be the recession facing the country. Valdés, for his part, was recognized in the Government that “he always played well,” while parliamentary sources mentioned that it is the only province that received Contributions from the National Treasury (ATN) for almost $1,000 million. The meeting between Valdés and the Corrientes president aroused strong resentments and passing of bills within the UCR. Meanwhile, Francos will go to Mendoza for the Vendimia festival, where he will share the stage with the radical Cornejo.
Search for agreements, but with more cuts
“Our will is not conflict for conflict’s sake, but we have already shown that we are not afraid of conflict either,” said senior sources in the ruling party. After which they added: “The idea is to be able to agree. It depends on how you go through the process.” Along these lines, they left subject to moving forward with the fiscal chapter with the provinces the possible approval of the Bases law as it remained weeks ago, when the debate in Congress was frustrated. “It still has a parliamentary process,” they explained regarding what can be discussed, and added that after that the pension reform could be discussed and only after those two points, the fiscal chapter, the one that interests the governors the most.
“I do not rule out that the Bases law will be discussed again in Congress. He has parliamentary status. Then we will see the fiscal package,” Caputo said on LN+. The Minister of Economy also sent a message to the governors that does not seem like a sign of rapprochement. He confirmed to them that the Teacher Incentive Fund has expired and that the joint agreements with teachers must be resolved by each province. “If they want to give a subsidy to education or transportation, they have to take it out of their coffers. If not, the Nation is the stupid guy who prints pesos, distributes money and then we all pay the consequences,” said Caputo.
The provincial leaders suffered an important series of reforms since the parliamentary debate on the omnibus law fell: cuts in education, transportation subsidies and all types of non-automatic transfers. There could be more.
Regarding Francos’ meeting this Tuesday with the governors in Salta, at Balcarce 50 they explained: “Guillermo will sit down and listen to see if we understand the same about the process of the law”in particular, contextualized it, taking into account the current situation of the provinces, increasingly stressed by the cessation of the flow from the National Treasury.
At the Government headquarters they also said that for two weeks a group of governors has been trying to generate contacts with President Milei. A rapprochement was even explored through legislative intermediaries to put a damper on the tense bond that was forged between Milei and Llaryora from Córdoba.
Regarding the most fractious governors for the ranks of Casa Rosada, the ruling party threw out a forceful phrase: “They say that there are no interlocutors, when in reality there are, but what they want are interlocutors who can tell them everything they want. yes”.
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