The Buenos Aires Minister of Transportation, Jorge D’Onofrioassured that “today that lThe province of Buenos Aires is responsible for 91% of transport subsidies without increasing the collective rate“.
In this way, the Axel Kicillof official responded to the Minister of Government of the City, Jorge Macriwho warned thatcould double” the cost of the ticket if the national government transferred the competence of those bus lines that circulate only through the Buenos Aires district.
In a statement, D’Onofrio alluded to the 2018 Fiscal Agreement, “which was signed between the former president Mauricio Macri and the governors and the head of the Buenos Aires government, which included the removal of automotive subsidies”.
“This with the province of Buenos Aires was strictly fulfilled. In 2021, the Province, in what has to do with transportation subsidies, paid 91% and the Nation paid 9%, while the City of Buenos Aires paid 43% and the Nation paid the remaining 57%,” he said from La Plata.
D’Onofrio explained that the price of the ticket in the lines of provincial jurisdiction “remained without increases as it was fully absorbed by the Buenos Aires State” and said thatand “if Cambiemos doesn’t know how to avoid raising ticket prices without having subsidies, let me know, and I’ll explain.”
“Jorge Macri is complying with the maxim of Cambiemos, which is that to disembark in the province of Buenos Aires, you must first be a Buenos Aires official,” he said.
In this framework, D’Onofrio supported the position of the National Government “to enforce Law 26,740 through its Article 2, approved in 2012, which establishes the competence of the City of Buenos Aires as the exclusive entity of regulation and control of the automotive transport of the service providers that circulate through its territory”.
