Buenos Aires, December 11 (NA) – The Supreme Court declared its original jurisdiction in a lawsuit initiated by Santa Cruz against the National State for nearly 600 million pesos in compensations from the 2017 Fiscal Consensus. In the filing, pushed by Governor Claudio Vidal, the province argued that the national state was failing to send the funds committed to cover the decrease in resources from 2018, originated from changes in Income Tax and the tax on credits and debits, as stated in the file accessed by the Argentine News Agency. The lawsuit recalled that the agreement established daily and automatic transfers, destined for health, educational, hospital, productive, housing or road infrastructure, with quarterly updates for inflation, and that Law 27.431 established that the State must make those compensations to the adhering and complying provinces. Santa Cruz claimed the payment of 589.3 million pesos for the 2023 periods and the months of January and February 2024, while requesting an innovative precautionary measure to ensure the availability of funds while the process advanced, considering that the lack of transfers was causing current damage. President of the Court met with religious leaders for the implementation of virtual autopsies. The Court, after hearing the Attorney General, rejected the precautionary measure by stating that “the precedents with which one counts are insufficient to have the aforementioned admissibility requirements configured” and that ordering a precautionary transfer “exceeds the framework of the hypothetical” provided for this type of measures. The highest court ordered to forward the lawsuit to the National State, which must respond through the ordinary process within a period of sixty days.
