The premature reduction of the duties of the new Minister of the Interior, Diego Santilli, has raised alarms among state governors. Provincial leaders wonder whether the new minister will have full powers to do so Negotiating budget funds In 2026, they indicated with the provinces and in Casa Rosada that they have an order to negotiate with everyone, but the concessions will be in evasive and monotonous.
“El Colo will welcome and pamper everyone. He will negotiate a package of laws that will be discussed in exceptional cases (budget, labor, and tax reform). After that, he will give a little to some.” iProfessional A source from the presidential environment close to the advisor Santiago Caputo.
“It puts a carrot in front of them in order to negotiate the next package and so on.” The sources added.
They confirmed that they were very close to Santilli iProfessional “Diego is part of the president’s team, like all ministers. They are a team.” They took it for granted that they would work together and to the same standards.
Diego Santelli’s challenge: negotiating with all the referees
People close to a governor allied with Miley confirmed that “There is room for negotiation, the government is not closed like previous years, and Kolo will seek to include everyone. Then we’ll see what can be done. But the strategy is to look for everyone.”
Another source confirmed the referees iProfessional That there would never be a retrospective of the place they always left Casa Rosada empty-handed.
“El Colo faces the challenge of building agreements and implementing reforms,” another president said. the The Conservatives will request public works, overdue funds, and contributions to pension funds that have not been transferredNational treasury contributions and their portion of the tax on liquid fuels.
Among the provincial leaders, they did not see favorably that Santilli took office on Tuesday in the White Room of Casa Rosada, his ministry being significantly reduced compared to the one led by Lisandro Catalan, the former premier’s hen. Guillermo Francos.
Trusts Tourism (Daniel Scioli), sports and the environment They were absorbed by the new Chief of Staff, Manuel Adorni. The Directorates of Immigration and the National Register of Persons (RENAPR) have been absorbed by the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich. The Presidency then corrected the “error” and returned Renaber to Santilli.
“It wasn’t a good introduction letter from Miley to Santilli in front of the judges“Because in this way they did not show him as fully empowered, but rather a prisoner of a network of internal conflicts in the Council of Ministers.” iProfessional governor
“Within 24 hours they marked Santelli Square.”
“El Colo entered with great force and within 24 hours they marked the field. No one explains why they controlled all the regions, but the majority went to Adorni, who is the godson of Karina Miley and Eduardo “Lolly” Menem They indicate that it is comfortable.
Special Advisor Santiago Caputo does not leave his mark, he has neither gained nor lost anything, although in Carina they start talking about a tight rope of… Sergio Nevitwho may leave SIDE in the medium term due to his poor performance, although Kabuto himself will replace him.
They also point this out Sebastian Amerio Confirmed as Deputy Minister of Justice: Karina Maili painfully confirmed the appointment of Mariano Cuneo Libarona in charge of the Ministry even though he resigned weeks before the elections. He did this specifically so as not to empower Kabuto.
“Everything is calm, everything is changing until nothing changes. The judicial official is not Amerio, but Santiago Viola, representative of La Libertad Avanza and Carina’s man,” they say in the corridors of Casa Rosada. Viola is the son of Claudia Balbin, a lawyer and close friend of federal judge Maria Cervini, judicial operators Alfredo “Freddy” Legault and former Seulista official Guillermo Scarcella.
Everything is as it was at that time. Will Santelli have more power than Guillermo Franco to get Miley and Economy Minister Luis “Toto” Caputo to open his wallet? At the first meeting between the Prime Minister of Buenos Aires, Jorge Macri, and Toto Caputo, there was no agreement: Macri and his team demanded $6,000 million for the nation to stop paying 1.55% to the city for a 1.55% joint share from 2020 to 2024, in addition to the 274,000 million pesos that Miley has not paid since July, shortly after withdrawing his greeting at the conference. Boredom.
In addition, the demand for recognition of joint participation has been rounded to 1.55%, which means adding 1.8 trillion pesos to the 2026 budget. “There has not been an agreement yet, but we agreed to continue the agreement,” they point out in the Buenos Aires city offices.
Diego Santelli’s meetings with conservatives and the paradox with Minister Axel Kiselov
Santilli will meet later with Jorge Macri. He has already met with the governors Chubut, Ignacio Torres; From Catamarca, Raul Jalil; from San Juan, Marcelo Orrego; From Cordoba, Martin Larriura, and from Entre Ríos, Rogelio Frigerio.
In the coming weeks He will meet with 10 of the 20 governors who were with the president. “Meetings are scheduled to be held with the governors to hear their agenda and the president’s agenda. The president’s agenda is clear: consensus without losing fiscal and budgetary balance, labor modernization, tax reform and penal code reform,” they said. iProfessional Near Santilly.
He will receive the minister this Thursday gustavo saenz, From Salta now Osvaldo Galdo, From Tucuman, he will travel to Mendoza on Friday to sit with him Alfredo Cornejo and on Saturday to Neuquén with Osvaldo Figueroa. It has not yet been resolved how the relationship will be with the referees excluded from the first meeting with Miley: Buenos Aires native Axel Kiselov, Formosino Gildo Infranryogan Ricardo Quintilla And Fujian gustavo Melilla, Facing Casa Rosada.
Minister of Kiselov’s government carlos bianco, He opened an attempt at dialogue through his account on the X Network in an accusatory tone: “Today I officially requested a meeting with the minister Diego Santilli To demand the money taken by the National Government from the people of Buenos Aires and to resume the implementation of the thousand works left abandoned in the Province of Buenos Aires.
Santilli’s response was sarcastic and succinct: “Dale Carly, thank you! I’ll take note.” He gave it a thumbs up. Those around Santilli noted that this was an acknowledgment of acceptance.
The question many conservatives are now asking is whether the Interior Minister will answer everything they discuss with Santilli in time or whether he will have to pass a very careful filter of Maili and Toto Caputo.
They are also planners Meetings with Miley’s allies such as Claudio Poggi (San Luis) and Leandro Zedro (Chaco). Governors currently know that National Treasury (ATN) contributions to the government budget bill amount to P569.426 million for 2026. The fuel tax will raise $7.6 billion and provinces claim 54%. Unconverted pension funds from 13 provinces have a provision $122 billionBut the affected governors will demand about $900 million to be able to comply.
In the accounts of leaders There is a struggle to get a total of $5 billion more or less in provincial budgets. To this we must add the funds allocated in the university budget, and the Disability Emergency and Children’s Emergency Acts, which were passed by Congress and passed by Casa Rosada, but without allocating funds for these programs. In return, all governors will demand funding for public works that are delayed in 2024 and 2025 and have an impact on the deterioration of roads and public buildings.
This is the question that many ask Whether Santelli will be able to meet everyone’s demands remains to be seenWhat treatment will be given to Kiselov, Insafran, Quintela and Melilla, the wayward ones, and how and to what extent these compliances will be made compatible with negotiations with the laws of labour, taxation and penal reform.
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