The Buenos Aires governor, Axel Kicillof, postulated this Sunday that “the province of Buenos Aires is not unviable”highlighted that “what is unviable is this arbitrary system of tax sharing” and criticized the national government for wanting to adjust the provinces. His publication unleashed a wave of criticism from the PROwhose leaders took advantage of the viralization of a video on networks to denounce the public health situation in the province.
On his What is unviable is this arbitrary system of tax sharing. The provinces need a National State that recognizes federal agreements and current regulations. But above all, comply with them. Because adjusting the provinces is not attacking ‘the caste’, it is melting the Argentines”. In conclusion, he left the link to an opinion note that he published this Sunday and said that the discussion and reform of “the current co-participation law is one of the main pending issues of our federalism.”
In the note, titled “Adjust the provinces, melt the Argentines”Axel Kicillof and the province’s Minister of Economy, Pablo López, recognize that “for decades, our province has been discriminated against and punished in the distribution of resources. Therefore, beyond any additional consideration, It is not surprising that the province lacks roads, lacks schools, lacks hospitals, lacks security. These are functions that, according to our Constitution, the provinces have to attend to with their resources, both from their own collection, as well as those that come from co-participation and the rest that are also transferred by the national government.”
Furthermore, the text highlights that article 75 of the National Constitution determines that the distribution of resources between the Nation and the provinces “will be carried out in direct relation to the powers, services and functions of each of them, contemplating objective distribution criteria; It will be equitable, supportive and will give priority to achieving an equivalent degree of development, quality of life and equal opportunities throughout the national territory.” He also highlights that “38% of Argentines live in our province. Buenos Aires generates more than 35% of the country’s Gross Domestic Product and 50% of industrial production. 39% of Argentina’s exports come from Buenos Aires production. At the same time, In the province that produces the most, most of Argentina’s vulnerable population lives”.
The article maintains that The current Co-Participation Law “predates the enactment of the 1994 Constitution and does not comply with this mandate. Said Law was sanctioned in 1987 on a provisional basis, establishing distribution coefficients as a result of political negotiation, unlike the law sanctioned in 1974, which used objective distribution criteria,” the officials evaluated. They also denounced that, “taking into account all the resources transferred, each Buenos Aires resident had fewer resources than the rest of the country’s citizens in 2023. This has been the case for years and years and was also the case in 2023. There was no favoritism. Enough lying! There was no extraordinary benefit for our province”.
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The criticism that Kicillof received: “You are unviable”
After the publication in X, the responses were immediate. The national representative for Buenos Aires of the PRO and former candidate for governor, Diego Santilli, commented: “The debt of 16,000 million dollars for YPF that you left us is unviable. It is not feasible to be killed every day for a cell phone or a backpack. It is not feasible for Buenos Aires residents to travel hours to be treated in a hospital in CABA. 32 years governing and they made everything unfeasible”.
For her part, the former governor María Eugenia Vidal shared a video that went viral on the networks during this Sunday, in which you can see a doctor from Capital Federal yelling at patients who demanded urgent treatment, with a patient sitting on the floor, despite chairs being available. The specialist explained that the staff’s capacity was at its limit and that therefore they had to wait, given that the La Boca hospital was receiving emergencies and patients from different locations in the province.
“These are the consequences of the abandonment of public health in the province of Buenos Aires: CABA hospitals collapsed and health personnel exhausted. Axel Kicillof’s disability is paid for by everyone, Buenos Aires and Buenos Aires”commented Vidal, current PRO representative for the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. Many users replied that, during her administration in the province, she declared: “I am not going to open new hospitals because it is a scam on the people.”
Cristian Ritondo, PRO deputy, also shared the video of the saturated La Boca hospital, along with the message: “While Kicillof fills his mouth talking about public health, the people of Buenos Aires have to go to CABA to get treatment because the hospitals in the province are completely abandoned.” Then, and already responding directly to the governor, he reproached him: “The province is not unviable. You are unviable.”
The Buenos Aires deputy Graciela Ocaña, from Confianza Pública, also got into the ring and shared the words of María Eugenia Vidal. “We need Governor Kicillof to take charge of his obligation to provide health to the residents of the province and guarantee the operation of IOMA. The City has a health infrastructure that can help resolve the emergency and The province must pay the attention of its neighbors to the City. “This money should be used for better salaries for health workers and improve the system.”he postulated.
“We maintain that the residents of the City should be a priority, that is why last year the legislator for Public Trust, Sol Mendez, presented a project so that the residents of the City have priority, especially older adults and children. We are going to demand that this be so, so that the taxes of the residents of the City have priority attention as a counterpart,” Ocaña added.
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