The governor of Chubut, Ignacio “Nacho” Torres will present on Monday before Supreme Court a lawsuit demanding 51,000 million pesos that the province says the nation-state owes it.
The funds requested by Chubut correspond to the provincial pension fund.
“We are demanding the debt that the nation owes to our pensioners and that should have been remedied since 2017; for this reason and in view of the repeated non-compliance, we have submitted the submission to the Supreme Court through the Chubut State Prosecutor’s Office,” explained Torres.
On Christmas Eve, the head of government of Buenos Aires said: Jorge Macrihad warned that it ““Return to the Supreme Court” to demand payment of co-contributed funds.
In this way, both leaders ended the year with greater pressure on Javier Milei’s government, with the prospect of legally clarifying their monetary claims.
Macri said he would try “don’t have to go back there.”but left the possibility open.
“Alberto’s (Fernández) debt was more than five billion dollars; three subway lines and I still have a lot left; a lack of control”said the Buenos Aires official.
Meanwhile, Torres, from Chubut, confirmed that he would turn to the judiciary to demand the resources.
“In view of the repeated non-compliance, we will submit the matter to the Supreme Court through the Chubut State Prosecutor’s Office,” he said.
“To be clear, to our taxpayers who have their own pension fund in Chubut and continue to contribute, the nation owes them nothing more and nothing less than more than 51,000 million pesos,” he argued.
At the same time, Macri had stated that this was the Supreme Court’s option “It’s always there”.
This is what the mayor of the city said “We must reach an agreement with the president and his team that allows us to avoid this (from the court) by understanding the government and the people, but we must respect the rights of the city.”.
In this sense, he continued: “We can accompany and accept forms of payment that serve the city, but in a smaller part, and that do not renounce the real right of the 3 million inhabitants of Buenos Aires.” Macri said that the issue of participation is “something difficult, complex, a catastrophe that Alberto left us.”
According to him, there is “a good will” on the part of the government to solve the problem and respect the precautionary measure taken in favor of the city regarding the management of these funds, which is why a form of installment payment has been accepted. However, Macri stressed: “Apart from the fact that it is difficult for them because of the amount, we need these resources because we are an engine of development.”
Days ago, Macri met with the Minister of Economy Luis Caputo, to whom he again explained that he was trying to normalize deliveries and that the government was paying these debts. Within two months there had already been several proposals presented to the head of the department by the cousin of former President Mauricio Macri.
In mid-November, for example, the Buenos Aires official spoke to him about the number of monetary demands that the state has on the city, focused on federal co-participation, since the sending of weekly funds of 1.55 percent, supported by a Supreme Court ruling, was not included in the 2026 budget proposal sent by the executive branch to Congress.
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