As anticipated, the ruling party in the Buenos Aires legislature did not participate in the special session this Thursday that tried to repeal the credit card fee and the session was terminated. The opposition was presented by the legislators of United Republicans (UK), Marina Kienast and Roberto García Moritán, La Libertad Avanza (LLA), Federal Consensus (CF) and the legislator of the Left Front, Gabriel Solano.
«The Larreta block has decided not to come to the extraordinary session to eliminate the tax on credit cards. now you know when Larreta says he wants to reduce his tax burden, he is lying”, Solano wrote on Twitter at the end of the session, in which only one legislator was missing to be able to hold.
“We called an extraordinary session to cancel the credit card tax in the city. Larreta was missing all the official stuff – who spends his time promising to lower taxes on TV – so this regressive tax policy will continue,” he tweeted from his part. the legislator of the Front of All, Ofelia Fernandez.
The head of the Let’s Go Together block, Diego García Vilas, For his part, he explained to Parlamentario.com that since Together for Change (JxC) they had already committed “publicly to eliminate that tax, which had been applied (as so often explained) temporarily to compensate for the reduction in co-participation in the Municipality, an outrage that promoted and implemented the Fronte di Tutti (FdT) “.
“As soon as the resources are returned to the people of Buenos Aires – as we hope the Justice will soon define it – that tax will go away. Taking it off now is simply a new punishment for the neighbors and whoever calls the extraordinary session knows it. Here because We won’t join this opportunistic media move, which has an absolutely ‘tribunal’ purpose ”, he warned.
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In order for the session to take place, at least 31 legislators had to be present, out of a total of 60, and the arc of the opposition – Frente de Todos, La Libertad Avanza, Frente de Izquierda and Consenso Federal – add up to 28, with the two from United Kingdom, turned 30, here’s why for one it was not possible to advance.
From the UCR-Evolution They indicated that the initiative was a “new attack to remove liquidity from the coffers of the people of Buenos Aires, in complicity with the national government”.
In a statement, Marcelo Guouman, president of the bloc, also said that what is “paradoxical is that this same tax works in the province of Buenos Aires, but the only place where Peronism wants to remove it is in the city of Buenos Aires.”
While from civic coalition They criticized the British bloc’s decision: “It is impossible to explain why (Ricardo) López Murphy sends his lawmakers to sit next to Kirchnerism,” Facundo Del Gaiso tweeted.
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