Santa Fe denounced in court to the Nation for accumulated millionaire debt

Lifschitz appeared with the public prosecutor, Pablo Saccone, and in statements leaving the courthouse, estimated that the discounted amount claimed by his province "could be between 75 and 100 billion pesos".

This is the second presentation of the Provincial State to the Court that in November 2015, pronounced in favor of Santa Fe and urged the parties to seek an agreement on the form of payment. "We are asking the Supreme Court to set an imperative deadline, setting the discounted amount of the co-participation debt, as well as a form of prompt payment, so as to be able to recover the resources that the previous government had prevented during almost a decade unduly, "said Lifschitz in an interview with the press.

The governor reported that "Three years have pbaded without the verdict being fulfilled" and he considered that since his administration they had "patience" and they were "tolerant"

"We recognize that during the first year of management of the national government (Mauricio Macri), we had to accompany the efforts of the government to control the accounts and we remained on the lookout. the second year, in 2017, we really started to start negotiations, "he added.

In this order of ideas, he regretted that no progress has been made and stated that it was a good wish to include in November 2017 in the fiscal consensus signed by 23 provinces "a special clause under which both parties committed to leave solved this problem."

He said that this agreement was not respected and that now, after a few months, there is "a change of economic scenario" that has touched the bases on which they negotiated.

"It is essential to set a peremptory date, to limit the negotiations and to follow the request of the province of Santa Fe"he added.

Asked about the amounts claimed by Santa Fe, Lifschitz said that "It will depend on the criteria that the Court takes to make this update"but estimated that "this figure could be between $ 75,000 and $ 100,000,000".

He then said that a hospital of great complexity, such as those built by his government in Venado Tuerto, Santa Fe and Reconquista "cost about 2 billion euros," he said. calculated. We therefore speak of "nearly 50 hospitals among the most complex".

The first Santa Fe statement before the Court was made under the administration of Governor Hermes Binner (2007-2011) and was the subject of a favorable decision regarding the Lifschitz administration. in November 2015.

Originally, it stood at about 22 billion pesos. During the 2017 negotiations, the province estimated that the debt would be greater than $ 50 billion.

National negotiators have proposed to pay around 32 billion pesos with 12-year and three-year bonds, adding a series of infrastructure works to be executed from 2019 in compensation for the difference with the estimates of Province. This negotiation ended up being frustrating with the advance of the dollar price in the middle of this year and motivated the new Santa Fe presentation before the court.