Finally, it seemed this Thursday night that “politics” began to find a point of consensus in this January of extraordinary sessions: the Government would have reached to a principle of agreement with the opposition considered “dialogueist”, accepting modifications of enormous importance in several of the most controversial points of the Omnibu Law projects, and that would open the concrete possibility of its approval next week in the Lower House.
Among the changes that the original project will undergo, which were an essential condition that had been proposed the UCR, We Make a Federal Coalition and Federal Innovation To accompany the opinion of the ruling party, there is la reduction from 2 to 1 year of the powers delegated to the Executive Branch, with greater restriction in addition to declared emergencies, and the implementation of a new retirement mobility formula tied to the inflation index (or directly the withdrawal of that article to discuss it later in a separate rule).
It would also have been agreed that YPF will not be on the list of public companies declared subject to privatization, the reduction to zero of export duties applied to regional economies, and the archiving of the electoral reform due to uninominality of jurisdiction.
The opposition had also asked the Government to agree to limit the initiative to the chapters linked to the economic emergency, but in that aspect Francos and Caputo did not give in and left the changes in Justice, Education, Culture, Science, Health and even the elimination of the PASO in place.
Guillermo Francos, key link of the ruling party in negotiations with the opposition.
The opposition had asked the Government to also agree to limit the approach of the initiative to the chapters linked to the economic emergency.but in that aspect the Milei management remained firm and left in place the changes in Justice, Education, Culture, Science, Health and even the elimination of the PASO.
This was confirmed in dialogue with the press accredited in Deputies by the president of the UCR block, Rodrigo De Loredo, after participating in a meeting in the office of the president of the Lower House, Martin Menemwith the Minister of the Interior, Guillermo Francos, and the presidential advisor Santiago Caputo.
“It was a good meeting. We raised our alternatives and our objections to the project and the government was receptive to our proposals”, said the radical Cordoban. After this clear demonstration of pragmatism, something that at some point seemed distant, the ruling party is directing the negotiation and he would be able to sign the majority opinion with the collaboration of the closest blocs of the opposition, which naturally include the PRO.
The debate in the plenary session of the General Legislation, Budget and Constitutional Affairs commissions will continue on Monday or Tuesday, and after the signing of the opinion The venue will be called to meet on Thursday the 25th, one day after the strike and mobilization of the labor movement and social movements.
“They brought us a list of topics. Now we are waiting for them to bring us the final draft of the project”said De Loredo before immersing himself in a meeting of his bloc to plebiscite the Government’s proposal.
For his part, the head of the We Make Federal Coalition bloc, Miguel Pichettodescribed the meeting with Executive officials as a “good meeting” and valued the “attitude of the Government to find points of agreement.”
The man from Rio Negro participated in the meeting with his colleagues from the Cambio Federal space Emilio Monzo, Nicholas Massot, Ricardo Lopez Murphy, in addition to Florencio Randazzo (Let’s Do for Our Country), Juan Manuel Lopez (Civic Coalition) and Pamela Calletti (Federal Innovation).
Massot agreed but warned that the details of the project will only reach him on Sunday or Monday, so the final decision to accompany the official ruling will be made on those days.
The PRO also participated in the meeting in Menem’s office but both the block head, Cristian Ritondo, and María Eugenia Vidal, left through the back door without giving official statements to the accredited press that had been stationed in front of the door. the office to collect testimonies.
The main changes in the draft “Bases law”
Delegations of powers: the Government agreed to reduce from two years (with the possibility of another two years of extension) to one year. Emergencies are reduced. Retirement mobility formula: the suspension of the current law without a replacement as the menu intended was left off the menu. Two options remained. The first is to introduce a new mobility formula indexed by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), and that assets are updated according to the inflation of the previous month. The other option is to directly withdraw the article on the suspension of the retirement mobility formula and postpone the discussion until later, in a separate law. Withholdings: 33% of withholdings on soybeans are maintained, but export duties to regional economies, which in the original project were raised to 15%, are reduced to zero. Privatizations: the package of public companies subject to privatization is maintained but YPF is removed from the payroll, which in this way will continue to be a joint stock company of mixed ownership with majority state participation. It was agreed that in the event of any privatization, the Government must send the specifications with the terms and conditions to a bicameral commission of Congress. In addition to YPF, the UCR, We Make the Federal Coalition and Federal Innovation want to prevent the privatization of Banco Nación, ARSAT, YMAD and Nucleoeléctrica. Electoral reform: the proposal for uninominality of constituencies is left aside, the application of which seriously affects the representation of the smaller parties in the Chamber of Deputies. The current system is maintained.
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