Axel Kicillof admitted that the provincial state is abandoning Argentines

In politics, sometimes a single sentence sums up years of management. And that was exactly what happened when Axel Kicillof, at the opening of regular sessions of the Buenos Aires Legislature, released a statement that generated astonishment: “While the provincial State leaves, we continue to take care of the health of our people.” The phrase did not come from an opposition leader or a libertarian official, but from the governor of the Province of Buenos Aires himself, who has led the provincial state since December 2019. In other words, the same State that, in his words, “leaves”

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The passage came in a speech marked by an electoral tone and one of confrontation with the national government. In that same speech, Kicillof stated that “building an alternative requires much more than saying 'no to Milei'”, in direct reference to President Javier Milei, and tried to position himself as the articulator of a productive and federal proposal in the face of the economic crisis. However, it was that phrase that ended up overshadowing the rest of the message

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If the “provincial state leaves”, as Kicillof argued, political responsibility inevitably lies with whoever leads it. It is not an alien structure or an inherited management without control: it is its own government

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In the same speech, the Buenos Aires president sought to hold the National Executive responsible for the provincial situation and said: “We are faced with a National Government that cuts transfers to the provinces, that paralyzes strategic public works in all regions of the country, a national government that centralizes fiscal decisions and that links with the provinces through extortion.”

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also summoned the opposition, stating: “It cannot be that each sector or province is left alone negotiating crumbs or managing the fall. All of us who don't want a broken society, a failed country, an Argentina with few winners and a lot of losers, we have

to join forces.”

The contrast with the Congress The

contrast with Javier Milei's speech at the opening of sessions of the National Congress is striking. While Kicillof spoke of abandonment, the President announced an agenda of structural reforms sustained

over time.

Milei anticipated that “each of the ministries has prepared 10 structural reform packages, so every month we will present packages of projects to be addressed by this Congress.” In addition, he argued that there will be “nine uninterrupted months of structural reforms that will redesign the institutional architecture of the

new Argentina.”

In economic matters, he recalled that in his first month of office he eliminated “a fiscal deficit of 5% of GDP” and that taxes were lowered “by the equivalent of two and a half points of GDP”, without resorting to monetary issuance. He also highlighted that “the economy has been growing for two consecutive years and accumulating an improvement of more than 10%”, and that everything was achieved “without expropriations or defaults, or hyperinflations that would have led 90% of Argentines to poverty

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In terms of security, he reported a 17% reduction in the homicide rate nationwide, 65% in Rosario and 20% in robberies in 2025, in addition to noting that pickets went “from 9,000 per year to zero.”

The President also stated that the “Kuka risk” involved attacks on the peso for “about 41 billion dollars” and an estimated loss of “2.5 growth points”, equivalent to “25 million dollars in terms of GDP”.