Pullaro assured that he will make “an effort” to pay the Christmas bonus in Santa Fe

Two weeks after taking office as governor of the province of Santa Fe, Maximiliano Pullaro joined the protests over the difficulty in covering the Christmas bonus, but assured that they will make an “effort” to comply with the payment. Minutes after the words of Ignacio Torres, governor of Jujuy, who acknowledged this morning that he will not be able to afford the payment of the Christmas bonuses, it was Pullaro who added his voice to the concern. Our situation is similar, but we are going to make the effort to pay the Christmas bonuses and January. We found a province that has twice as much floating debt as cash resources,” he explained in an interview with Radio Rivadavia. Along these lines, the governor-elect revealed that Santa Fe “has a year-end deficit of around $200,000 million, which is equivalent to 1.3 of the wage bill.” We are going to find a simple situation but we are going to work to solve it,” Pullaro added, and then blamed Sergio Massa’s management as economy minister. “There is a responsibility of Massa, of national Kirchnerism and of all the Justicialism that voted for this law to defund the provinces; with the Earnings measure we lost more than one wage bill in the province,” he said. “In general terms, we agree that profits had to go down, but when you carry out a fiscal policy you have to look at the impact on the whole,” he said. Finally, the governor explained how he will face the payment of the Christmas bonuses with a bleak outlook in economic matters. In the medium term, we are going to focus on resolving Santa Fe’s cash imbalances. We have had 3 years of drought that have affected the national treasury and the province,” said Pullaro, who then concluded by assuring that “we are going to see each of the passes to a permanent plant based on the law of fiscal responsibility.”

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