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Javier Milei increases the pressure against the governors: “I am going to leave them without a peso” - Infobae
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January 26, 2024

At today's Cabinet meeting, the President ratified the strategy that Adorni and Caputo began to deploy yesterday. The goal is to obtain support to approve the Omnibus Law. The key is in the retentions

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Javier Milei during a Cabinet meeting

Javier Milei ratified this morning the strategy that some of his most trusted officials had begun to deploy since yesterday. In the Cabinet meeting in front of his ministers, advisors and representatives in Congress, the President launched a harsh phrase against the governors who are harsh in supporting the Omnibus Law that would be discussed on Tuesday in the Chamber of Deputies. . “I'm going to leave you without a penny,” he said.

The expression was the summary of the confrontational tactic adopted by the leader of the Executive as negotiations with the opposition in the legislative sphere become muddied. And a support for his Minister of Economy, Luis “Toto” Caputo, and the spokesperson for the Presidency, Manuel Adorni, who yesterday had expressed phrases in the same sense and were accused of, supposedly, threatening all those who do not support his extent.


The first had expressed himself yesterday through X, breaking his usual low profile. “The zero deficit is not negotiated. “If all the economic measures proposed in the law are not approved, as the President said,” he said. And then he reported that he had held a meeting with his Secretary of the Treasury and his Undersecretary of the Provinces to outline all the provincial items that would be cut “immediately if any of the economic articles were rejected.”

“It is not a threat, it is confirmation that we are going to fulfill the mandate that the majority of Argentines have given us to balance the fiscal accounts to end decades of inflation and economic scourge,” he clarified.

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Luis Caputo

Adorni had spoken in a similar sense earlier, in his usual morning conference from the Casa Rosada: “Beyond the fact that we see no reasons why the bases bill should not end up becoming law, in case that does not happen, is to continue with the adjustment of public accounts, there will be no other way. The adjustment of public accounts will include the analysis of each and every one of the items that the national government transfers to the provinces , in every concept that can occur,” he had advanced.

From the provinces they let their complaints and concern be revealed about what they said they considered a type of extortion on the part of the Executive even though they instructed their deputies to give an opinion on the “Bases” project.

The Government's attacks occur because it does not have the votes for the vote in the precinct, which it had planned to hold today, Thursday, or, at the latest, over the weekend. However, it had to be postponed until next Tuesday, and the agenda for then is not even assured. The PRO, sectors of radicalism, We Make the Federal Coalition and Federal Innovation accompanied with dissidents and there is still no agreement for the chapter on withholdings to be published, key to achieving the fiscal goal pursued by the libertarians.

The Government considers that it has already made all the concessions it could by eliminating the increase in withholdings to 15% for all regional economies , and believed that the governors and the dialogue blocs would accompany the 15% increase in industrial exports and the increase in rate for soybean, wheat and corn derivatives, key to increasing revenue. But this week he received news that there were new demands. From PRO and the Pichetto bloc they proposed that exports not be touched and that progress be made, instead, on the 30 special regimes that govern, for example, industries such as champagne, luxury cars and the knowledge economy.

The battle is on, and Milei drew line directly to his troop. The strategy is to stop giving in and start putting pressure.
 
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