Governor of Buenos Aires, Axel KiselovToday, he will lead a last-minute attempt to obtain legislative permission to assume debts, a goal that was not achieved last week, at the end of the regular session, and he will seek to obtain it in the special session, with two sessions scheduled to be held this Wednesday.
Starting at 4:30 pm this Monday, in the Golden Hall of Government, Kiselov will lead a press conference to ask for support for his debt project. He will do so surrounded by mayors and regional lawmakers who have been summoned to the event. They emphasized that the invitation was for representatives of “all forces,” not just Peronism Nation From the Government of Buenos Aires.
Kisilov was able to convince the legislature to approve his budget and the financial and tax law, in sessions that were held simultaneously between Wednesday night and the early hours of Thursday morning last week. The House of Representatives and the Senate were in recess until Friday, trying to muster the support of two-thirds of lawmakers (this kind of special majority is necessary in debt cases), but on Friday the House of Representatives session fell, so the indebtedness (financing law, as the provincial government called it) was not discussed.
The failure to reach agreements on the funds generated from the debts that the Kicilloff government will transfer to the municipalities is the decisive point of the dispute, resulting in a lack of support from opposition blocs such as Pro and La Libertad Avanza, among others. Peronism rallied behind the ruler’s project, overcoming the differences that still existed between Kiselovianism, Christendom and Jamahirism.
On Wednesday – during the period of special sessions convened by lawmakers, a mechanism stipulated in the Buenos Aires Constitution – religion will be discussed in parallel in the legislature. The House of Representatives meets from three in the afternoon; Senators, from 5 p.m.
The debt that Kiselov is asking to take is his own In the amount of up to 3.685 million US dollars, if the requests of the Executive, the Regional Public Sector, the Public Treasury and the Buenos Aires Energía and Autopistas de Buenos Aires are taken into account. The planned fund for municipalities constitutes 8% of the total debt stipulated in Articles 1 and 2 of the draft law (amounting to $3,035 million), but the differences are in the amount that will be guaranteed to mayors, in addition to the debt that is taken.
This week is the last in which the current composition of the legislative body will intervene. Next time, both chambers will be renewed with the entry of legislators who were elected in the provincial elections in September. For Kisilov, this new formation means a larger number of his legislators (of the thirteen regional senators that Peronism will add, four will respond to him, as will eight of the 21 new deputies), but the general framework will be the opposite for him, because it will increase the representation of the Advanced Freedom Party, which will include 25 deputies and 11 senators, a bloc with which it will be difficult for him to begin negotiations.