The Chamber of Deputies will meet next Wednesday to discuss the Omnibus Lawformally Law of Bases and Starting Points for the Freedom of Argentines, promoted by the president’s government Javier Miley.
It will be a marathon session, which promises to be the longest in recent times. Is calculated between 30 and 40 hours long from 10 on Wednesday. The details of the organization of the session will be known after the Parliamentary Labor meeting at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, the agency stated. THAT.
The format of the session itself is under discussion, and there are those from the libertarian bloc who propose calling a intermediate room to unfold in two timesgiving legislators a rest period between one block and another.
He quorum is assuredand even more so considering the positive balance that the meeting of the non-Peronist governors in the Federal Investment Council with the Minister of the Interior, Guillermo Francoswho promised to extend 30% of co-participation to the provinces of the PAIS tax.
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This concession from the Government predisposed the provincial leaders to support the omnibus law and to exert their influence on the deputies who respond to them so that they vote in harmony.
Las The first four hours of the debate would be dedicated to discussing the validity of the session, since there are challenges by Unión por la Patria and the Left Front that point to irregularities in the signing of the majority opinion (the content of which was later reformed). They specifically denounce that what is going to be voted on is not the same text as the file that was signed with a majority opinion.
The Government’s original idea was to meet on Tuesday, but the soft opposition blocs told it that they had not had enough time to process the latest limited version of the majority ruling with the removal of 139 articles.
The truth is that beyond the fact that the differences narrowed, some disagreements persistedespecially in matters of delegation of powers and privatizations.
The session for the Omnibus Law was postponed to Wednesday.
The official call to the session was notified in the middle of frenetic negotiations in which the leaders of the moderate opposition blocs participated: Rodrigo de Loredo (UCR), Miguel Pichetto (We make Federal Coalition) and Cristian Ritondo (PRO).
The president of the Chamber of Deputies was part of the conversations in the Legislative Palace, Martin Menemand the presidential advisor Santiago Caputo.
The president of the Budget Committee also appeared at the offices, José Luis Esperta key piece in building consensus for the ruling party.
And later they joined Gabriel Bornoroni and Nicolás Mayorazpresidents of the General Legislation and Constitutional Affairs commissions, respectively.
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The announcement made on Friday by the Minister of Economy, Luis “Toto” Caputorealizing that the Government agreed to withdraw the fiscal package, unblocked the session, but hard work continued on the fine print.
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For example, We Make the Federal Coalition asked to continue reducing the number of emergencies, which from end to end went from 11 to 7 (the Executive removed emergencies in pension, fiscal, defense and health matters). The bloc commanded by Pichetto also demands the removal of delegated powers in tariff, energy and security matters.
Another issue where agreements still needed to be polished is regarding privatizations. The UCR and Hacemos Coalión Federal were trying to unify criteria in this sense, since they start from different premises.
While the bloc led by De Loredo proposes treating each case separately by sending a law to Congress, Pichetto’s group seeks that the privatization proposals be sent to an ad-hoc bicameral commission to rule and then vote in The enclosure.
A marathon session is expected to last between 30 and 40 hours.
There are changes that have already been agreed upon and that the opposition blocs welcomed. The main initiative was the withdrawal of the tax chapter (withholdings, retirements, money laundering, moratorium, Personal Assets), which is what paved the way for the call for Wednesday’s session.
He also went back with the elimination of subsidy for cold zones for residential gas users, and the article that enabled the “dissolution” of public companies, national universities and autonomous organizations such as INTA and Conicet was swept away.
Meanwhile, the latest version of the Bases project allows the consolidated public debt held by ANSES to be liquidated, although it eliminates the authorization to sell the assets of the FGS portfolio.
The part that stated that “the resources obtained as a result of the sale of the shareholdings may not be used for any purpose other than the social security system” was also deleted.
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Block by block, the positions on the Omnibus Law
Upon entering the Legislative Palace, From Loredo was approached by the press and assured that they will give a quorumwhile he promised to work so that the bloc “votes in a unified manner.”
However, the radical internal is very tight and there are about 14 deputies who respond to Emiliano Yacobitti, Facundo Manes and Gerardo Morales who would vote against several articles. He rest of radicalism is inclined to accompany.
“We are always going to fight for a unified vote, knowing that we are a party where what characterizes us par excellence is that we have a democratic stance and there are always different perspectives, semantics, positions. In the most important thing, in the most relevant , in giving the instruments to a government that has just taken office, I long and hope, and I am working for that, so that radicalism votes in a unified way,” said the man from Córdoba.
For its part, Ritondo confirmed that the PRO will “accompany with all the tools”, while PichettoMore measuredly, he said that his party is going to vote but taking into account “the dissent” raised in the majority opinion.
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The head of the Union for the Homeland bloc also expressed himself, German Martinezwho ratified the rejection of Peronism and he justified it by saying that the people had voted for them to be in opposition, and asked to “think about the consequences of this law in the Argentine State.”
“What is being voted on in general is the majority opinion endorsed in the plenary session of commissions with the entire fiscal package. Then you will see how they draw it in the vote in particular,” he warned.
Although he did not want to reveal in dialogue with the parliamentary press What will be the strategy of Union for the Homeland on campus?a possibility that is not ruled out is that the debate be moved back to committee with half plus one of the votes.
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