After the summit at Casa Rosada, Javier Milei obtained support from the PRO to protect the veto on pensions

Before veto the increase in retirement benefits, Javier Milei summoned PRO deputies to ensure the greatest amount of endorsements in Congressconsidering the risk that the opposition could achieve a two-thirds majority that would override its veto.

The meeting that took place on Friday afternoon in Pink House It lasted for more than an hour and was the prelude to a video that the Government will publish to try to mitigate the impact on public opinion of his decision against the income of pensioners. There the President himself will explain the reasons for his measure, which he considers vital for the macroeconomic order. The veto will be made official on Friday evening, according to what Ámbito was able to confirm.

With the same objective of harm reduction, Milei himself was present at a summit organized with the presence of deputies from Freedom Advances and the PRO. Sixteen deputies were present: Gabriel Bornoroni, Nadia Márquez, José Peluc, Pablo Ansaloni, Nicolás Mayoraz, José Luis Espert, Lisandro Almirón, César Treffinger and Bertie Benegas Lynch for the ruling party; Oscar Zago, for the MID; and Cristian Ritondo, María Eugenia Vidal, Luciano Laspina, Silvana Giudici, Diego Santilli and Alejandro Bongiovanni, from the PRO. There was also representation from libertarian senators: Bartolomé Abdala, Vilma Bedia and Ezequiel Atauche.

The most notable absence was that of Martín Menemdue to differences with the parliamentary strategy of Mauricio MacriSantiago Caputo was not there either, although as representatives of the Executive they were present Karina Milei and Guillermo Francos, who will present the management report next Wednesday in Congress.

This Thursday, and after holding two meetings in one week with the President of the Nation, Mauricio Macri He headed a PRO event in Paraná where he stressed that “we are all on the same page”. The PRO is in a place of absolute generositywhere we have to be: always on the right side.” For his part, Maria Eugenia Vidal -who will be at the meeting at Casa Rosada- pointed out on the same stage that in the face of “a painful reality, with more than 50% of Argentines being poor, we are required not to be mean and not to speculate.”

Cristian Ritondo, after the meeting at Casa Rosada with Javier Milei

The president of the PRO Deputies bloc, Cristian Ritondostressed the value of the President’s call to the members of his party and stated that the president “gave us a little preview of the situation Budget Lawso we proposed a legislative coordination work before the projects reached Congress.” “The Budget will be set at zero deficit,” he added.

In turn, he assured that Javier Milei “proposed a total veto of the retirement law” and highlighted the Confluence between PRO and La Libertad Advances “This new methodology to work together from now on.” “We are going to support the veto, he already announced it.” Mauricio Macri, because we understand that There is a deviation that has to do with the fiscal deficit“.

It was in this context that Ritondo expressed that “Let’s hope that the two-thirds majority in the House of Representatives is not reached”with this support that three parties are giving him,” referring to PRO, MID and La Libertad Avanza. “We never had any rifts with the libertarians; Parliament has shown that we have been supporting them from the very beginning and that by working together we can achieve the right things,” he concluded.

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Cristian Ritondo, president of the PRO bloc of Deputies.

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Congress: Votes for the veto

The impact of the meeting on Pink House does not influence with the same weight in the Senate that in the Chamber of Deputiesbecause in Congress there are two different realities for the ruling party and its main allied bloc.

In the Senate 48 votes are needed; 33 from the Union for the Fatherland are guaranteed and eight from provincial blocks and another 13 from the radicalism could be added: PRO endorsements are not requiredwho in a show of autonomy voted against the Government but became entangled in the change of course taken by its partisan president, Mauricio Macriwho overacted his adherence to the presidential veto. The larretist Guadalupe Tagliaferri He said he would again support the pension reform.

In Deputiesthe The UCR – which drafted and promoted the approval of the retirement system in June – has not yet defined its unanimous support for the project but would contribute the majority of their 34 votes, to which are added the totality of Union for the Fatherland (99), Federal Encounter (16), Civic Coalition (6), Left Front (5) and For Santa Cruz (2). In an optimistic scenario, they have guaranteed 162 of the 172 votes to reach two thirds: the remaining could come from Federal Innovation (9) and They would need support from the PRO or from some legislator allied with the ruling party.Given the recent internal conflicts, this scenario does not seem impossible.