Wednesday, July 13, 2016 Supreme Court delays gas hikes rulingCouples dance tango on a Buenos Aires street yesterday. Crucially, the ruling did not endorse any explicit position on the hikes themselves, saying there is no case to decide so far. But in gas, electricity and transportation we have established the social rates that cover between 20 and 30 percent of the population.”Herald staff with DyN, Télam Multiple frontsThe legal conflict hasn’t only been focused on the Supreme Court, though, as the government also filed a request in a La Plata federal court against a judge’s decision freezing the new rates announced this year. The Supreme Court said that the ENARGAS gas regulating agency will have to report on the evolution of rates since 2001, the parameters used to determine the hikes and the criteria of “gradualism and progressiveness” applied to design them.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald July 13, 2016 03:11 UTC