Juan Schiaretti bullied the government into paying him a $110 billion debt

The government has added a new front of conflict: this Wednesday, the governor of Cordoba, Juan Schiarettisent a note to the president Alberto Fernandez in which he summons the executive power to settle a $110 billion in debt which sticks with the Pension fund of the province. In the absence of a response from the Nation within five days, it will resort to the supreme court of justice.

The province has indicated that the amount owed by the National Executive between 2020 and 2022 is $100,335. However, the straw that broke the camel’s back is that so far this year, the National Social Security Administration (ANSES) has not respected the tax pact in force since 1993 by which it has l obligation to absorb the deficits of the pension plans not transferred to Nation. According to the budget law, the pension agency must send the funds to cover the deficit of the provincial savings banks before the 20th of each month. So far in 2023, Córdoba is due January, February and March will be added shortly.

Schiaretti meditated this weekend on the idea of ​​going ahead with the summons and finally this Wednesday he sent a letter to Alberto Fernández demanding “the summons so that, within a period not exceeding five days, the Nation transfers the funds it owes to the province from 2020 to 2022, which at present values ​​amount to 100.335 million pesos and the installments corresponding to January and February 2023 which add another 8,562 million pesos to this debt”.

The governor regrets “unjustified and repeated breaches”, and warns that in the absence of a response from the Nation within the aforementioned period, the Province will be forced to initiate legal proceedings. In the note sent to the President, Schiaretti pointed out that Córdoba “has never received a response to the various formal complaints made in this regard, both by the undersigned and by a presentation made with a date of receipt of 04/11/2022; of the State Prosecutor of the province of Cordoba presented before ANSES with charge of reception 25/02/2022 and by the Pension Fund, pensions and pensions with charge of reception 13/12/2021 and 28/01/2022″ .

“In addition, so far this year 2023, a new situation of serious non-compliance with the budgetary norm has been configured by the national executive power (and ANSES) by not having transferred any resources – not even partially and insufficiently as has happened in previous years – as an advance on the final outcome of the provincial pension deficit”sued the claim.

“We are complaining now because the inflated debt is 110,000 million, which we are supporting from the provincial treasury, and it is already becoming unsustainable,” he said in a dialogue with All news (TN)the deputy of Córdoba Federal, Carlos Gutierrez. “The administrative claim has been permanent, now we directly challenge the president as head of the executive power. This is a violation of previous Supreme Court rulings,” he added. In this context, the Cordovan legislator ratified that the Province instructs the Executive “to pay us and otherwise we will go to court”.

The new front of conflict that Schiaretti has opened with Alberto Fernández occurs in the middle of the dispute that the national government is going through with the city of Buenos Aires due to the reduction of the federal co-participation funds that the Supreme Court has ordered to be restored; and at the same time that the Cordovan governor maintains presidential aspirations. Last month, he presented with Juan-Manuel Urtubey a Peronist space “overcoming the crack”, and last week it was shown with Florencio Randazzowith the same postulate, that of creating a path that breaks with the polarizing pattern posed by the In front of all y Together for change.

However, Carlos Gutiérrez – who responds to Schiaretti in Congress – clarified that “it is not a political demand”. “It is an economic claim, we need this money to pay, to solve programs. Sometimes you can stop a public work, but the payment to pensioners cannot be stopped, ”assured the deputy.

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