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Unrest in the provinces due to the removal of transportation subsidies
The decision fell like a blow between the governors. In the orbits of some, it was read as “revenge” for the legislative defeat of the “Bases” project. Those most opposed, on the other hand, stressed that the initiative may have been accelerated but that “it was always in Milei’s plans.”
At the moment, discomfort, concern and uncertainty are the common denominators between jurisdictions, regardless of their political teams.
The political fact is that the announcement will have a full impact on two provinces whose leaders Javier Milei directly accused of their shipwreck in Congress: Santa Fe and Cordovagoverned by the radical Maximiliano Pullaro and for the Peronist not K Martin Llaryora. Neither of them has the SUBE system.
The tension is such that even the Mendoza Alfredo Cornejowith an acceptable link with the ruling party, spoke out against it.
“The elimination of transportation subsidies for the interior of the country, maintaining those of the AMBA, fails to comply with the 2017 Fiscal Pact. Strong asymmetries remain between the Buenos Aires suburbs and the rest of the country. The fiscal order is welcome, but it must be equitable,” said in X.
Similar words had his partner from the Together for Change (JxC) league, Maximiliano Pullaro from Santa Fe, who denounced: “Once again they leave us alone.”
“We are going to maintain the subsidy that the province of Santa Fe has with transportation, which is around 2,000 million, and we are going to update it, because clearly the costs of living have increased throughout the province, but we cannot take care of what the Nation does not command, with a province that has been left with a very, very large deficit,” he noted.
Immediately afterwards, Pullaro stressed that “what we are not going to allow is for them to come to dominate or mess with the productive system of the province of Santa Fe.” “We are not going to allow any national government to come for more withholdings from the countryside and industry, because that threatens the generation of employment and the economic growth of many regions of the Argentine Republic, but mainly of my province of the province. of Santa Fe”, Shooting,
In response to the query of Ambita yellow source revealed that “There was an agreement with the government that was broken. They told the governors that in January they would finance the subsidy and from February the resources would be provided by the Nation.”.
From Buenos Aires offices, they compared the situation with what is happening with the National Teacher Incentive Fund (FONID), whose transfers to the jurisdictions were barely $12 million in January, as reported this medium.
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“It falls like everything the Government does, which said it was going to end caste and the only thing they do is harm the lives of the workers; middle and lower class, who are the ones who are truly affected by the use and need of the means of public transport”, They pointed out from La Plata upon hearing the news.
Later it was the Buenos Aires Minister of Transportation himself, Jorge D’onofrio, who established an official position. “This is revenge for the fall of the omnibus law,” denounced the Massista official. He at the same time considered that “It is not an adjustment to the governors but to the people.”
The Peronist administration of a northern province commented that they will make an effort to maintain the ticket but that in the medium term they will have to adjust the rate again.
In the Patagonian region, meanwhile, they analyzed that “the effect it will have on the people is regrettable.” “The removal of subsidies is going to affect the transportation user, who are not precisely the people who have the most resources, they are the people who have to go to work,” they noted.
In that vein, a source stated that inside “We are going to suffer much less than in CABA, than in Rosario or Mendoza, because here the distances are smaller. People will have to adjust and see.”
At the same time, they specified that the adjustment was always part of the Javier Milei. “We said it at the time and they accused us of ‘sowing terrorism’. The evidence showed us that we were right: the adjustment is not about caste, unless the caste is the workers,” protested a Peronist source.
The impact on cities
As anticipated Ambitthe mayors of the interior of the country prepared a joint document in which they express their “extreme concern about the situation.”
“This measure is not against the mayors, it is against the millions of students, nurses, workers who daily use public transportation to get around their respective cities. Such a determination directly affects the country’s productivity,” says the writing.
At the same time, he emphasizes that if what was expressed before the press is confirmed through a resolution, “This measure would mean leaving the entire interior of the country without transportation.” “It is also worth noting that the inequality with the AMBA is maintained, since the elimination is only proposed for the interior,” they protested.
In the text, the mayors anticipate that they will evaluate “all political and judicial measures to guarantee the items already allocated by the national budget.”
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Among others, the document bears the signature of Damian Bernarte (San Francisco); Daniel Passerini (Cordova); Guillermo Montenegro (Mar del Plata); Juan Pablo Poletti (Santa Fe); and Pablo Javkin (Rosary beads).
For this Thursday, the Automotive Tram Union (UTA) had announced a stoppage of activities in services outside the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA). Faced with the news, the mayors intervened and demanded mandatory conciliation.
Finally, the Ministry of Labor – currently dependent on the Ministry of Human Capital – accepted and aborted the measure. At the same time, he summoned the parties to a hearing for next Wednesday, February 14.
The escalation is part of the war between the Casa Rosada and the governors. Without “valid interlocutors” – as the provincial leaders denounce – the compulsion has now moved to the fiscal field and its political consequences are still uncertain.
