:format(webp)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/grupoclarin/IPEDGVMRNBGVVM4W2ECUDYPLJI.jpg "Kirchnerism forces a negotiation for an expanded session in Deputies")
After We Make the Federal Coalition, the bloc led by Miguel Pichetto, requested a special session for next Wednesday in order to discuss a new retirement mobility formula in the Chamber of Deputies, Unión por la Patria seeks to force a negotiation and could guarantee the quorum as long as the agenda of the call is expanded.
The talks between the blocks began this Wednesday without any reactions from the ruling party, while the expectation dominates for the summit with governors that will be held this Friday in Casa Rosada, to which is added another that will take place this Thursday in Puerto Madryn between Patagonian leaders.
At the request of the Civic Coalition, Pichetto’s bloc cornered the Government to accelerate the discussion of retirement mobility, but it has only 23 members. To be successful in the session requested for March 13, he needs support from the rest of the opposition.
At the UCR they received the request for a session with some discomfort: they assure that no one anticipated them. However, in radicalism they do not believe they have much room not to participate, since, in general terms, they agree with the retirement proposal of the “lilitos”.
The PRO did not speak out, but María Eugenia Vidal presented her own project very similar to that of the Civic Coalition, which proposes a monthly adjustment for inflation. Maximiliano Ferraro, head of the party founded by Elisa Carrió, took advantage of the opportunity and encouraged the Macrismo to provide a quorum.
“All initiatives add up. In the special session on Wednesday the 13th we have the opportunity to work on all the projects and find the best way to begin to resolve the injustice that retirees experience,” Ferraro wrote to Vidal on social networks.
However, the bench that can unlock the quorum of 129 deputies is Unión por la Patria. Knowing this situation, the head of the block, Germán Martínez, analyzes behind closed doors the possibility of contributing the presence of its 99 members, but in exchange for expanding the agenda of the call.
The retirement debate bothers Kirchnerism, because it implies a recognition of the failure of the current formula, sanctioned during the administration of Alberto Fernández, which does not contemplate the inflationary component. So far, the bloc has not taken a position on the Civic Coalition’s initiative, but is open to analyzing it.
“We celebrate that they are looking for a way to launch the Chamber, but we do not want to validate a single-issue agenda,” they say in Unión por la Patria. They also do not want to enter into a “special session bid”.
The main issue they seek to add to the agenda is the restitution of the National Teacher Incentive Fund (FONID), which expired because the Government decided not to extend it for the first time since the late ’90s. They are resources that the Nation transfers to the provinces to improve teachers’ salaries.
The continuity of FONID is a concern that crosses several blocks. In fact, We Make the Federal Coalition presented a second request for a session for March 19, under pressure from one of its members, Margarita Stolbizer, who has presented a project to extend the validity of the fund until the issue is resolved in a fiscal pact. with the provinces.
There is also a project by Máximo Kirchner, son of former president Cristina Kirchner, to make FONID permanent as of January 1; and another from the radical Julio Cobos to extend it for five years. Despite the differences, Martínez is optimistic about reaching a consensus between the blocks.
The claim (which CTERA will raise again this Thursday with a national day of protest) is also linked to that of the Salary Inequalities Compensation Fund, which assists provinces with fewer resources to guarantee that all teachers receive a salary above the income they guarantees national teacher parity.
Another issue that is part of the negotiations, and that could also unite the opposition under the umbrella of greater resources for the provinces, is the continuity of the Interior Transportation Compensation Fund.
Finally, Unión por la Patria promotes another project by Máximo Kirchner to create a fund to finance public works with soybean withholdings.
As none of the dance projects have yet been discussed in commissions (they are not even constituted), the regulations require two-thirds of the votes to be able to discuss them on tables. The alternative that the opposition is exploring is to vote, with a simple majority, a summons to the commissions to open the debates, with a day and time.