Tomorrow, President Javier Milei will meet with a large group of governors, asking for their cooperation to agree on and pass through Congress the tax and labor reform projects that the government is promoting for the next stage.
The meeting, quickly called following the clear electoral support received on Sunday, will take place at 5:00 PM at the Casa Rosada, where the President will be accompanied by the Chief of Staff, Guillermo Francos; the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo; and the Minister of the Interior, Lisandro Catalán.
Invited to attend were Rogelio Frigerio (Entre Ríos), Raúl Jalil (Catamarca), Claudio Poggi (San Luis), Martín Llaryora (Córdoba), Maximiliano Pullaro (Santa Fe), Gustavo Valdés (Corrientes), Ignacio “Nacho” Torres (Chubut), Carlos Sadir (Jujuy), and Claudio Vidal (Santa Cruz).
Also invited were Osvaldo Jaldo (Tucumán), Hugo Passalacqua (Misiones), Gustavo Sáenz (Salta), Gerardo Zamora (Santiago del Estero), and Jorge Macri (City of Buenos Aires).
“Labor reform, tax reform, we cannot have the tax burden that the Argentine Republic has today,” stated Santa Fe's Pullaro in recent hours, who had been critical of the national executive before the national elections.
The tax reform is attracting the attention of provincial governors, while the labor reform has already sparked tensions with the CGT, which has announced it will not support it and will even seek to block any changes that imply “setbacks” or “loss of rights.”
Following this meeting, the next day, President Milei is scheduled to meet again at noon at the Olivos residence with former President Mauricio Macri, with whom he has met twice since the libertarian electoral setback in the September Buenos Aires elections and with whom he spoke on the phone after last Sunday's national victory.
But the Peronist leader confirmed this Wednesday that he will be at the meeting with Milei and most of his peers.
The national executive intends not to lose the momentum from the ballot box and will accelerate talks on labor and tax reforms to supposedly debate them in extraordinary sessions of Congress early next year, with the new, more favorable for the ruling party, composition of parliament.
Although the libertarian party managed to significantly strengthen its blocs in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate after the recent electoral success, it still needs the support of lawmakers in both chambers who answer to provincial governors, taking for granted that its initiatives will not have the backing of the Kirchnerist Peronist caucuses.
Those projects have not yet been drafted and will be prepared after the Council of May (the tripartite space where the three branches of government, unionism, and business discuss) finalizes its final report, which they are working on, something expected for mid-December. “We are going to accompany everything we understand is right and all the reforms that need to be carried out, as they asked us,” the statement said.
There are two other guests who, due to different commitments, will not be able to attend and will send their vice governors: Alfredo Cornejo (Mendoza) and Rolando Figueroa (Neuquén).
The invitation to the governor of La Pampa, Sergio Ziliotto, was surprising, as he is part of a bloc of six governors close to Kirchnerism who were not expected to be invited, at least not this time.
