Buenos Aires province Social Development Minister, Baldomero Álvarez de Olivera, criticized Buenos Aires City Mayor Mauricio Macri for delaying the adoption of the nightclubs' time restriction. "Macri must prioritize teenagers' health and not the pockets of nightclub owners," he said.

Earlier, Buenos Aires province governor Daniel Scioli asked Macri not to consider adopting the time restriction as "a political concession."

"The City of Buenos Aires keep on vacillating about this topic, but I ask them not to see it as a political concession or as if they were conceding ground to the provincial government," Scioli said during an interview today.

"If they adopt the time restriction, all they will do is answer positively to the parents' claims," he added. "The consequences of the unlimited closing time, we see them with the amount of young kids being admitted to hospitals for alcoholic comas."

"I call to the city administration to go in the same direction as the province in order to get legal uniformity and so that they don't bare on their shoulders the weight of what could happen if youngsters decide to leave the province and enter the city jurisdiction to keep on partying after 5.30am," the BA province Governor added.

Marcos Peña, the City Secretary, answered the BA province governor, saying that he considered the time restriction measure a "media maneuver" and that it is not the solution against the alcohol plague.

"Consensus and prevention are the best way to protect the young crowds," he said, adding that the webpage saliseguro.com.ar that the city put online was a good tool to inform youngsters and parents about the bars and clubs who don't respect the law and have been warned or closed. In that sense, Peña accused the province of "not coordinating prevention actions."

Attacks were also launched from the provincial government toward the city. The Buenos Aires province Cabinet Chief, Alberto Pérez criticized the City Mayor Mauricio Macri, saying he "launches measures without consulting anybody."

Pérez concluded saying that "governing an autonomous city does not mean heading the government of an autistic city."