Grouped in the Argentine Federation of Municipalities, more than a hundred mayors from different parts of the country mobilized this Tuesday at the door of the Ministry of Economy, and made a presentation where they demanded the strengthening of the federal co-participation scheme, the normalization of the sending of national resources, guaranteeing the delivery of food to the lower-income sectors, as well as the implementation of compensation measures for the impact of diesel on public transportation, among other measures.
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Also, in the document presented, to which he had access Time, The restitution or compensation of eliminated subsidies was demanded, the reactivation of support policies for industry, SMEs and regional economies, guarantee of access to medicines for retirees, as well as the strengthening of policies for people with disabilities.
Likewise, the mayors demanded the creation of a permanent working group between the Ministry of Economy and the FAM chaired by the mayor of La Matanza Fernando Espinoza. The mayor of Matanzas led the delegation and joined the national Economy portfolio together with the Buenos Aires Minister of Infrastructure Gabriel Katopodis and the Minister of Government of the province of Buenos Aires, Carlos Bianco.
Visibility and unity
Beyond the delivery of the document, which Time As anticipated yesterday, the communal leaders of different provinces carried out a powerful and visible political action that was crowned with a subsequent meeting at the FAM headquarters, in Cerrito at 800 of Capital Federal, headed by the governor of the province of Buenos Aires Axel Kicillof and accompanied by his counterpart from La Rioja, the president Ricardo Quintela.
At the press conference at the door of the Economy, the mayors did not hesitate: there is a reality in their districts, with their neighbors, that the national government does not attend to and, apparently, does not want to see.
“The limit is the hunger of our neighbors,” Espinoza expressed before entering the Economy building. In the subsequent press conference, the man from Matanzas expanded: “We, the mayors, are hurt by what is happening, we are on the verge of desperation, with a lot of anguish. For more than two years we have not been listened to by the national government and the situation throughout the country is not enough. An example was the bus stoppages last week, the increase in fuel prices. The national government has 3 billion pesos that it collects with the fuel tax and not even with that it subsidizes the increase. of gasoline throughout the country. With these taxes, President Milei is obliged by law to fix the routes throughout the country. Here we have mayors from all over the country who suffer accidents and potential deaths, because they have not fixed a single route in all of Argentina,” he noted.
The Buenos Aires Minister of Infrastructure, Gabriel Katopodis, once again emphasized the demand for the national government to “do the works it has to do with the Fuel Tax and to lower the price of diesel and gasoline because it hits the lives of all Argentines very hard and badly.”
With mayors from all over the country today we made a federal demand: lower the price of gasoline and carry out public works.
The routes are abandoned and the municipalities have no resources. But, for the financial scam there is money.
We ask President Milei to… pic.twitter.com/gySlj5VDrS
— Gabriel Katopodis (@gkatopodis) April 14, 2026
In dialogue with TimeLiliana del Carmen Pascual, mayor of Enrique Urien (province of Chaco), remarked: “Since I have been in the mayor’s office, for four consecutive terms, we have never experienced what we are experiencing today. We are very limited in resources due to the drop in participation. That is why today we feel content when we meet with mayors from all over the country, and this gives us more strength to continue fighting for what corresponds to us by law. We ask the president (Milei) to take a look federal, for all Argentines.”
Subsequently, the mayors left for the FAM headquarters, where they met with the governor of the province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, and with his counterpart from La Rioja Ricardo Quintela.
Off the microphone, the FAM highlighted the broad attendance, which even included a delegation of radical mayors who gave greater scope to the conclave. When consulted by this means, some mayors also pointed out the importance of their neighbors beginning to see clearly where the cuts originate, in a context where social discontent is increasing.
Leaders and mayors from 18 provinces were present at the event: Buenos Aires, Catamarca, Chaco, Chubut, Corrientes, Entre Ríos, Formosa, Jujuy, La Rioja, Mendoza, Neuquén, Río Negro, San Juan, San Luis, Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, Santiago del Estero and Tierra del Fuego.
The meeting with Kicillof
For his part, after the meeting with the mayors at the FAM, Kicillof stated: “A huge number of mayors from Argentina came to the City of Buenos Aires today to demand the works and resources that correspond to our people.”
“The absolute desertion of the national State generated a true social, productive, labor and economic catastrophe for Argentine families. Here we are, mayors and governors who will never turn our backs on our people: if it were not for the support and assistance in each neighborhood and in each municipality, Javier Milei’s Argentina would already be an absolute calamity,” he warned.
It is essential that Argentines know that there are many leaders throughout the country who are fighting for the well-being of the people, doing things with dignity, honesty and effort.
Here we are mayors and governors who will never turn our backs on our… pic.twitter.com/7BGd0DRJEq
— Axel Kicillof (@Kicillofok) April 14, 2026
For his part, the governor of La Rioja, Ricardo Quintela, said: “The challenge we have as governors and mayors is to design a proposal and a country project to put it for the consideration of our people: Peronism has to assume the responsibility of being the backbone of a front that brings together all those who defend Argentina and are against the delivery of our future.”
Finally, Kicillof stated: “This national program is ruining people’s lives. The microeconomics are bad and the macroeconomics are horrible: the solution is not just to change the cast, but to completely modify the model.”
“We have the responsibility and obligation to show that another path is possible: we are working to create a political alternative that can get the country out of the hole they are putting us in,” the governor said.
