The governor of Santa Cruz, Claudio Vidalstated that “if there are no resources” for his province “there will be no Base Law or May Pact.”
In a radio interview on AM 710. Furthermore, Vidal questioned the management of Javier Miley and referred to the effects of the economic adjustment in the Patagonian province: “There is a selfish, centralist view. And they are forgetting about the interior of the country, which is what really produces“, he pointed.
Within the framework of the President’s attacks on the provincial governors, the Santa Cruz president gave an overview of how his position began to disagree with that of Milei and concluded: “I believe that Argentines deserve to live in a much better country, more organized, more Federal but really more federal because the way it is working today is that the provinces contribute to the nation and the nation distributes less and less”.
“We understand the economic situation that this government has inherited but it seems to me that there are situations that significantly harm the weakest and at that point, we no longer agree”added Vidal.
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“I considered myself an ally of this government in the first two months, Then we clearly saw that day after day we are harmed, that the dialogue does not matter, that the desire to reach a consensus does not matter, that it does not matter the desire that we have to work with this national government to move our country forward, it does not matter that we all pursue the same interests. Here are unilateral decisions that are really harming a large part of the country,” he said.
“There is talk of federalism but the provinces are the ones that produce and the ones that contribute. The nation is the one that receives our funds, and There are less and less funds for the provinces”, assured the governor of Santa Cruz.
“Santa Cruz received 30% less than what it received under the previous government”
The governor of Patagonia assured that the province of Santa Cruz “received a 30% less “For us this is very strong,” he added.
Along these lines, he listed the effects of this thirty percent cut: Public works paralyzed, thousands of workers on the streets, serious problems in acquiring oncological medications in hospitals”. “Nación stopped sending this from one day to the next,” she said.
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Then, he added: “This is a province that for 17 years did not have normal school classes. This time, for the first time, we succeeded, but the teacher incentive In my province it meant 650 million pesos, which are really very, very important and today we don’t have it.”
He also referred to the delays in the transfer of funds to cover retirements, an issue that the national government maintained would be resolved in the coming days. “The province is once again responsible for a Nation commitment in the case of the contribution from the Santa Cruz Provident Fund. For us, this year the Nation’s contribution would mean 18.5 billion pesos. AND still not paid. It is complex to continue like this,” declared Vidal.
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On the other hand, he highlighted that “we have good dialogue with Guillermo Francos (the Minister of the Interior), but later decisions are made without consultation that harm us.”
The governor clarified that “there is always dialogue between the governors of Patagonia and the other governors of the country. Personally I see that there is a lot of discontent, that the majority of the governors do not agree with the measures that this government is taking. But I’m going to speak for myself.”
“If there are no resources for my province, in terms of education, in terms of health, understanding the difficult situation that Santa Cruz is going through due to the serious economic problem that we inherited. And furthermore, due to these adjustment measures that the Nation applies to my province, our legislators are not going to accompany any type of Base Law and there will be no May Pact for us either,” he stated.
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Vidal highlighted his position regarding the adjustment measures for Santa Cruz and he asked himself: Is it true that there was poor administration? Is it true that there was embezzlement of funds? Is it true that it was stolen with public works? What do we do now? Do we condemn the people for the errors of the bad politics of the past? Or do we really sit at a table and through healthy discussion of the debate, the presentation of different ideas, proposing and listening, do we build a path that allows us to lead this country to the place where it needs to be?”
“Hasty measures without prior analysis really get us nowhere. The country today is not divided into two parts, it is divided into three or four parts. There is political immaturitythere is irresponsibility, there is lack of love for one’s neighbor. It is really very sad what we Argentines are experiencing,” she said.
In that sense, the governor questioned the Head of State and his management: “He has the opportunity to do things well, but clearly You are making a mistake and those who are most affected are the most vulnerable., the weakest, the poorest and the middle class who become poor and the poor who no longer have anywhere to go, who do not know in which social class to place themselves. There really is a selfish, centralist view. AND They are forgetting about the interior of the country, which is what really producesright?” he pointed out.
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