The country’s 23 governors were summoned to the Casa Rosada to discuss the steps leading to the “Pacto de Mayo”, announced by the President Javier Milei at his state-of-the-nation speech to open Congress on March 1st, with special emphasis on a fiscal pact as a key preliminary.
This was preceded by the provincial economy ministers huddling with Treasury Secretary Carlos Guberman. But when performing the provincial counterpart of Milei’s state-of-the-nation speech to inaugurate the ordinary sessions of the Buenos Aires Province Legislature on March 1st, a mistrustful Governor Axel Kicillof poured cold water on the whole “Pacto de Mayo” concept in a speech more aimed at confrontation with the national government than tackling provincial issues, saying that “it seems more like a threat or an imposition than a dialogue… a meeting for photo ops and marketing” and calling revenge for the failure of his omnibus bill.
Meanwhile, on March 7, the Congress Bicameral Commission convened to discuss the legality of Milei’s deregulatory DNU emergency mega-decree.
SOURCE: www.batimes.com.ar