The Government continues to delay the final sending of the new draft of the Bases law and is rushing the sending to the Budget and Finance commissions of the fiscal package for this Wednesday, while the Minister of the Interior continues to seek wills between the blocks and the governors of the dialogue opposition and the hardest to protect the
mother project of the ruling party
.
Guillermo Francos started and ended the day with two opponents
far from the ideological spectrum of Javier Milei
. The political minister received
Claudio Vidal
from Santa Cruz in his office in the morning
and closed the day in Santiago del Estero in a one-on-one with
Gerardo Zamora
. In the middle, he received the support and some claims from the governors of the center,
Maximiliano Pullaro from Santa Fe, Martín Llaryora from Córdoba and Rogelio Frigerio from Entre Rios
.
This Wednesday he will receive the Federal Innovation bloc made up of legislators from
Misiones, Salta and Neuquén
, who objected to several articles in the previous treatment of the law, in February. The governors of Misiones and Salta - who after the legislative failure in February were branded as "traitors" by the Casa Rosada - have now made public their
displeasure
because the Government has stepped on the changes regarding
internal taxes on tobacco
.
Paradoxically, the Government had more expectations of finding a wink in Zamora than in the Santa Cruz native Vidal who visited Francos in his office for the second time. The man from Santiago has already demonstrated - in the Senate and in the Deputies - that he can
collaborate
with the ruling party with
the absence of his legislators
. He succeeded in the election of authorities in the commissions of the Upper House and with the vote on the omnibus law in Deputies. Zamora demonstrated during Macri's time that his closeness with Cristina Kirchner decreases when Peronism is not in power.
In the bilateral meeting with the minister, as in Francos' previous meeting with governors of Norte Grande, the man from Santiago insisted on the request for the reactivation of works.
Very early on, Vidal, on the other hand, once again listed his province's claims that make support from his legislators for the basic law unfeasible. He demands the
reversal of YPF contracts
and will not accompany the
privatization plans of public companies
, including
Yacimientos de Río Turbio
, and questions the
government's tariff plan
. He is also against the regime of promoting large investments that most governors support.
Alicia Kirchner's successor is one of the toughest Patagonian leaders - along with
Gustavo Melella from Fuegian and Sergio Ziliotto from Pampa
- and it is difficult for the Government to count the votes of its senators, who already voted against the DNU, to approve the Bases law. . Vidal, like several governors, has little or
relative influence over his deputies
.
Francos seemed much more comfortable in Santa Fe, where he traveled to attend the inauguration of host
Maximiliano Pullaro
as president pro tempore of the central region. The minister was so relaxed that he did not hesitate to mark a date on the calendar for the end of the recession.
“For now there is no money, but there will be, because we are stabilizing the macro economic situation. We are convinced that
starting in the second semester the economy will rebound
and we will be able to start talking about other types of things,” said Francos. Macri, Alberto Fernández and even Sergio Massa verified how dangerous it is to predict an exact date for economic reactivation.
Quick with reflexes, Llaryora from Córdoba picked up the glove. “
Sign me up for the second semester, first day
,” he said jokingly, a moment before talking about “the damn retentions.” “
Going back is a gesture of strength
,” said the governor regarding the President's countermeasures on export taxes.
The leaders of the center - who met alone with Francos before the event for 20 minutes - are willing to support the omnibus law but reiterated their claim for the debt that the national State maintains with the
pension funds of the provinces
. "It was interesting to see the three governors publicly asking the minister for measures to defend production," said the inner circle of one of them.
Frigerio defined them as a multi-party group - due to their different political backgrounds - but assured that they want to give Milei the tools he demands and guaranteed his presence to discuss the May Pact. Host Pullaro asked to include measures that encourage production.
With humor and sincerity, Francos broke the ice to confess that the second semester is more than two and a half months away. "You
don't know what it's like to deal with these people as Minister of the Interior without money
. Seriously, I would like the nation to be able to accompany the claims of the provinces and the different sectors, but reality is reality," said the minister. .