Cristina Kirchner criticizes the Court for ruling on the distribution of taxes to the detriment of the mayor’s office of Buenos Aires

the vice president Argentina, Cristina Kirchnercriticized this Tuesday the Supreme Court for suspending a law that harms the mayor’s office Buenos Airesgoverned by the opposition, within the framework of a bid with the national government for the distribution of taxes.

“The court ignored a law, we are at a time when a law is suspended, something unusual because the only one that can suspend a law is Congress, which is the one that sanctions it, the judiciary can only declare it unconstitutional and not apply it, but suspending it is impossible”, he said in a public act, when inaugurating a sports center in Avellaneda, on the southern outskirts of Buenos Aires.

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“We are facing a legal fact, as if a rule of law had disappearedKirchner said.

The fight over the distribution of federal funds is preceded by a decree from the former Liberal president Mauricio Macriwhich in 2016 almost tripled (from 1.4% to 3.75%) the proportion of federal government taxes allocated to the city of Buenos Aires, led by pro-government supporters.

In 2020 a law promoted by the president Alberto Fernandez canceled this increase and the mayor’s office appeared before the courts.

The Supreme Court ordered on December 23 to bring the City’s co-participation to 2.95% and postponed the debate on the substantive issue of tax distribution until March.

Fernández said then that he would not abide by the ruling because he considered it “inconsistent and impossible to fulfill”.

Then he announced that he will comply with the payment through bonds, while he questioned what he considered “a political ruling ahead of the election year”.

The mayor of Buenos Aires, the liberal Horacio Rodriguez Larretaaspires to be the presidential candidate of the right-wing coalition Together for Change for the October 2023 general elections.

The co-participating funds come from taxes that are collected at the federal level and are distributed among the 24 districts, that is, the 23 provinces plus the autonomous city of Buenos Aires, where 2.8 million of the 47 million Argentines live.

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In her speech, the former president (2007-2015) reiterated that she will not be a candidate for anything in 2023 but remarked that this decision “it is neither resignation nor self-exclusion, there is a proscription”.

The 69-year-old vice president was sentenced on December 6 to six years in prison and life disqualification for fraud in public works tenders when she was president, a sentence that she attributes to political-judicial persecution.

The sentence still has several instances of appeal before it becomes final, which could take years, while Kirchner enjoys the privileges that give him immunity until December 2023.

Source: Elcomercio

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