The climate inside Freedom Advances was convulsed during the last week: ats departures of a deputy and a senator of the ruling party blocks, were added the Public clashes between two high-profile legislators. Before appearing at the Congress to take stock of the management, next Wednesday, Guillermo Francos He referred to the need to restore calm within the space.
“One would like it not to be so and it wouldn’t be normal if it didn’t bother me, but I understand that they are consequences of the political construction we made“analyzed the Chief of Staff, who recalled that “all our legislators emerged almost unexpectedly from a political space, which It was built as it could to face an electionwith a candidate who was very disruptive in his approaches but who did not have a political party.”
The consequence of this process, as he understood, was that the libertarian space was formed with “a group of legislators, in which sometimes weigh independent positions and do not consider the position of the leader of the space that was voted for by the people, which is President Milei.”
Interviewed on Mitre radio, Francos downplayed the impact of the internal conflict by pointing out that “so far in the administration, the positive image of Javier Milei has remained almost constant around 50 points,” a situation that he attributed to the fact that the President “always says that He was elected to combat inflation and insecurityand in both fights we are winning by a landslide.”
Finally, he avoided self-criticism: “What one sees as negative are very small in the overall analysis.” However, he acknowledged that “from an economic point of view, we are beginning to emerge from a strong recession that came from the previous government and that in the first months of this year was very hard.”
Legislative summit at Casa Rosada
This Friday, Javier Milei called for a summit of deputies Freedom Advances and of the PRO to protect themselves against the possibility that the opposition obtains a special majority and reverses its veto on the increase in pensions. Representing the Executive, there were also Karina Milei and Guillermo Francoswho was asked to recover the active role he played in the negotiations that facilitated the approval of the Bases law.
Sixteen deputies were present at the meeting: 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 were also representatives of 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 Macri. Santiago Caputo was not there either. After the meeting, the president of the PRO block of Deputies, Christian Ritondonoted that “We proposed legislative coordination work before the projects reached Congress.“.
Source: Ambito
