“I think that Sergio Massa choked. With this being a candidate, he took a measure within the framework of others with this little plan, and it seems to me that it is a mistake to meddle with provincial and municipal finances, seeking to be like the one who leads the issue. In addition, inflation had to be lowered, not continue with palliatives because all this little money is like a monetary issue,” he declared. Diego Valenzuela in The Trigger (Delta 90.3).
The Mayor of February 3 was questioned by the president Alberto Fernandezwho angrily stated that he did not understand how “poor” provinces such as “Catamarca and La Rioja” could pay the fixed sum of 60,000 pesos in two tranches for salaries of up to 400,000 pesos, which was provided by decree.
An error by the president: Catamarca did not sign the norm, like other provinces where Peronism governs. Santa Fe, Chaco, Tucumán, to name a few, did not follow the measure, leaving Massa offside after having embraced a request from Maximo and Cristina Kirchner: the fixed sum increase.
Anger on the part of the minister’s entourage in the Renewal Front, where they complain that none of the referents of Kirchnerism come to the rescue. Massa exhibits the blows after the announcement of a battery of measures that now would not be fulfilled: politicians and businessmen seem willing to ignore the norm.
The responsibility for sanctions will be borne by the Minister of Labor, Kelly Olmoswho will have to regulate the fines, in case they are applied: yesterday there were many doubts if the announcement of penalties for companies will finally be fulfilled.
“These things have little electoral effect.. People are going to grab the bond and vote what they want in October. It does not seem to me that this can change the scenario where Unión por la Patria came out third in the PASO and is on its way to a similar result in October because there is no economic improvement, there is a patch,” Valenzuela insisted, expressing the thoughts of other Buenos Aires mayors. that yesterday they signed a joint communiqué warning that they would not pay the 60,000 pesos if there were no transfer of those funds from the government,
The ball is in the court Axel Kicillof who would establish a fund of 12 billion pesos to help mayors. But the governor himself has not yet specified what position he will take. A silence that baffles the ruling party and chokes Massa,
by RN
