The Front of All will seek to reach agreements in the Chamber of Deputies with opposition blocks to be able to debate the 2023 Budget project on Wednesday October 19a week before the date originally scheduled, after having concluded this Tuesday the round of consultations with officials of the Executive Power.
The National Government project estimates a 2% growth of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the next year, a guideline of i60% inflation and one reduction of the fiscal deficit of 2.5% in 2022 to 1.9% of GDP.
The Chairman of the Budget Committee, Charles Heller (FDT), provided this Tuesday afternoon details of the schedule that remains to finish the treatment of the project of expenses and resources for 2023 in the framework of the plenary in which the Minister of Transport, Alexis Guerrera, presented; and the owners of Aerolineas Argentinas, Pablo Ceriani, and Trenes Argentinos, Martin Marinucci.
Heller said that the idea of advancing the treatment in the session room has the objective that the “Senate can have more time for its debate.”
From the opposition John Manuel Lopezof the Civic Coalition (CC), warned that the ruling party should not count on its block to meet “next week” with the Budget.
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“At the meeting we had on September 20, we agreed that, at a minimum, we were going to give this process a month. It is very important that we have the agreed time. Last year it was ruled and that same day 56 articles were added. There were We have to analyze and hold these new articles in one day. We intend to have at least one week to analyze what is ruled,” López added.
The President of the Chamber of Deputies, Cecilia Moreauagreed with the political blocs on a plan for dealing with the budget where they established October 26 as the deadline to deal with the budget in the session hall.
In this context, the president of the FdT bloc, German Martinezrecalled that “at that meeting we talked about the possibility of advancing the date if the respective agreements existed”.
“We are saying: on Thursday we will point and see how far or close we are from an opinion, and if the conditions are right, it will be done (the session). If not, it will not be done”, Martinez stressed.
For now, this Thursday the debate on the 2023 Budget project will resume with the discussion of the hundred articles that make up that initiative -the most important of the year- and there will be analyzed what changes could be made to the text sent by the Executive power.
One of the issues that generates the most debate is that of subsidies for internal transport, something that was reflected in the meeting on Tuesday, when the minister alexis warrior.
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Guerrera gave her report in the last stage of the round of consultations that began two weeks ago, after the Minister of Economy, Serge Massawill present the project.
That same day, the secretary of Economic Programming, Gabriel Rubinstein; and the Secretaries of the Treasury, Raul Rigo and Finance, Eduardo Setti.
In the first section of the meeting this Tuesday, Guerrera assured that one of the central objectives of the management is “to improve the efficiency of the system of groups and subsidies” and to expand “the railway scope”,
Along these lines, he pointed out that “it is imperative that the legislators who are going to vote on the 2023 Budget, have a look that transcends partisan issues because the fate of a particular political force is not at stake here, but that of the Argentines and Argentines that, as far as transportation is concerned, on a daily basis, use our trains, buses, buses and planes to get around”.
The Government proposes to invest 182,000 million pesos, of which 104,000 million are allocated to subsidies for the AMBA, 66,000 million pesos for transport in the interior, 11.5 million for the modernization of transport and 576 million to expand the application of the SUBE.
The deputies of the FdT, Jorge Romero; from the UCR, Jorge Rizzottiand from Córdoba Federal, Ignacio Aresca Garciademanded that the 2023 Budget contemplate greater items for subsidies for the interior in terms of transport.
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Another of the exhibitors of the day, the owner of Aerolineas Argentinas, Paul Cerianisaid that the company “will have in 2023 a reduction of 102 million dollars by the National Treasury” in the transfers planned for the flagship company.
“Transfers by the Treasury would amount to 412 million dollars, a reduction of 102 million compared to 2022,” the official said.
“In real terms, for 2023 and in pesos, the projected contribution would be $90,000 million. That is, only 26% above 2022,” he stressed.
For his part, the head of Ferrocarriles Argentinos, Martin Marinuccisaid that “we continue with the planning to recover a railway system that had been neglected, without maintenance and that the different cities and towns in the interior of Argentina lacked.”
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“We made progress in the incorporation of personnel that shows us the efficiency of the entire railway system,” he added.
He added that “we have a measure of user satisfaction and the safety that traveling by train means today” since “the objective we set for ourselves is to recover the railway system as a state policy,” he stressed.
Meanwhile, the director of Trenes Argentinos Carga, Daniel Vispo, reported that, as of 2019, “four management axes are being worked on.” “Repair and maintain the track, recover the rolling stock, have a competitive rate and transport the largest amount of cargo,” he listed.
Finally, the general director of the Budget Office, Marcos Makon, carried out a disaggregated analysis of the Budget, detailing that they will deliver three reports, one general, another on financing and a third on public investment.
Makon stressed that in the last three weeks 9 ministers have exposed “something that has never happened in Congress.”
“This serves to discuss policies and what you have done is very important, an important discussion about the policies on the basis of which the Budget is determined, sometimes only the financial part is discussed,” the specialist stressed.
