President Alberto Fernández considered this Thursday that from the ruling “We are facing a clash of powers” because the highest court “achieved the incredible”, in reference to the fact that a resolution “contradicts the Executive Power and the Legislative“.
“The national Constitution never mentions the city of Buenos Aires as part of the co-participation,” he stated.
In addition, the president maintained that the ruling of the Supreme Court in favor of the city of Buenos Aires on co-participating funds ands “very singular” and “impossible to fulfill”.
“The first thing we have to understand is that those of us who want to live in a rule of law want to live in a country where the powers of each of the powers are respected, and where no power assumes functions of another power, and that this comes going constantly with the Supreme Court of Justice”, said the president in statements to the C5N channel.
The president expressed that the laws sanctioned by Congress “must be complied with”, after the Government announced that it will challenge the Supreme Court judges who ruled against a regulation of the Executive Power in the dispute with the city of Buenos Aires by matching funds.
“How is it that it is only suspended for the Executive Power?”the president wondered about the resolution of the highest court, and added that the rule in question “It has not been declared null or questioned in its constitutionality.”
Fernández maintained that “beyond” wanting to comply with the Supreme Court ruling in favor of the city of Buenos Aires for co-participating funds, he must send a law to Congress that “resolves a new budget” that establishes “where we are going from to withdraw the funds”, and in that case if it is with “taxes, increase in withholdings or indebtedness”.
The President pointed out that the Court established that the Nation must assign a 2.95% transfer to the City” but the Government “does not have the slightest idea” why they “arrived at that calculation” and further stated that “this money is not in the national budget”.
The support of the governors
The Head of State explained that the governors with whom he met to analyze the Supreme Court ruling about co-participation “the first thing they saw is that they are the ones who are losing”.
“The theory that the money leaves the Nation and does not affect the provinces is false, because the money that the national State has is used in favor of the provinces,” he said.
On the other hand, Fernandez He affirmed that he “does not know” if the objective of the ruling is to finance the electoral campaign of the head of the Buenos Aires government, Horacio Rodríguez Larretabut estimated that, by resolving in this way, the highest court “is going to achieve it.”
