He added: “We ask for it to be included in the budget, and now it is up to them.” Jorge Macri At the end of the meeting. A phrase that summarizes the spirit of the meeting and rearranges the political equation: Buenos Aires MPs’ support for the budget no longer comes for free. Arrives conditionally. Arrives with invoice.
Meeting with President Jorge Macri Manuel Adorni and Diego Santelli In “Casa Rosada” it was not just another quote from the political calendar: it was, in fact, a formalization of the pressure which the Prime Minister of Buenos Aires had been slipping in a low voice and which he had now decided to explain frankly. The city wants the shared debt to appear, by name and title, in the 2026 national budget. This time the message came without any nuance.
Jorge Macri, Gabriel Sanchez Zini and Gustavo Arengo; On behalf of the National Government, Diego Santilli, and the Chief of Staff and Spokesman Manuel Adorni Pilar Ramireza rising figure within the political scheme.
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The formation is not a coincidence: Adorni ensures that what is discussed conforms to the presidential narrative, while Sánchez Zini and Aringo represent the city’s artistic insistence on demanding certainty. Santelli acts as a bridge, but he does not have absolute authority to close negotiations.
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The city is no longer hiding its strategy: if the government wants to secure Buenos Aires votes to approve the 2026 budget, it must show a real will to pay off the debt. He is not satisfied with promises, nor with eternal technical schedules that do not resolve what is urgent.
Jorge Macri LOr he said with unusual clarity for an official who usually prefers a moderate tone: “We ask for it to be included in the budget. Now it is up to them.”
This phrase, repeated by those around him, represented the breaking point. The city stops waiting and starts demanding. This request comes with numbers: in the absence of recognized debt, there will be no legislative support.
The meeting was just a spectacle. The actual content, which is the inclusion of debt in the budget, is still a matter of dispute. What Jorge Macri did was move the axis and expose what many in Casa Rosada preferred to avoid: that the conflict was no longer technical, but political, and that the cost of not resolving it would be clear and direct.
The national government needs votes; The city needs to collect. They both know that.