A strong crossover between the block leader of Union for the Homeland in it SenateJosé Mayans, and the head of the provisional presidency of the Chamber, Bartolomé Abdala, resulted in a request for a session of the main opposition bloc that will go down to the chamber today to try to overturn the DNU of reserved funds for the SIDE and turn into law the educational financing, threatened by a new veto of Javier Milei.
This is a challenge to Victoria Villarruel who yesterday in the parliamentary work meeting signed in a document the request for a session for next Thursday with the support of the UCR, PRO and senators who respond to the governors of dialoguing provinces. But the unilateral request of UP to hold a session this afternoon is also an invitation to the atomized radicalism, especially to the sector of Martin Lousteau, party that promoted the law on financing universities and a temporary partner of Peronism in reaching the presidency of the bicameral commission of intelligence agencies.
Adrift in the Senate
Following the passing of the retirement mobility law and its subsequent veto by Javier Milei, La Libertad Avanza lost control of the legislative agenda and was heading towards a succession of defeats that further expose the lack of political leadership in the Government.
In the Senate, the votes are already in for a historic event: the first rejection by both Chambers of a presidential DNU. After the vote against in the House of Representatives, the decree that grants $100 billion in reserved expenses to the SIDE was going to be rejected also in the Senate this Thursday. Together with the conversion into law of educational financing, Milei is exposed to paying the political cost of another veto. First to retirees and now to universities.
However, Victoria Villarruel managed to win a week of political oxygen for the Casa Rosada and agreed with the dialogue blocks to postpone the session for a week, where the main interest of the ruling party was to vote on the single ballot on paper. “We don’t have the votes, they were going to fill our faces with fingers in the chamber,” was the confession of a member of LLA in the Senate in response to the question of Scope.
Crossroads with Union for the Homeland
The move triggered an intense exchange between Mayans and Abdala, who hours later admitted on prime time television that he has 13 Senate advisors to campaign for governor in his province. The UP bloc wondered if this was not a confession of a crime, considering that there are public funds involved that would be diverted from Congress.
“Tomorrow at 2 pm the interbloc of the Union for the Fatherland of the Senate will go down to the chamber after having asked the parliamentary secretary to guarantee the functioning of the body to deal with the University Financing and the DNU of the funds of the SIDE,” was the statement that the Mayans bench posted yesterday to announce that they did not accept the agreement between Villarruel and the dialogue blocks to delay the session.
Freedom Advances has just lost a senator in its bloc due to the expulsion of Francisco Paoltroni, faced off against Milei over Ariel Lijo’s proposal to fill a vacancy in the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation. That starving bench of just six senators depends on the UCR, the PRO and the governors in favor of dialogue to confront Unión por la Patria.
In the House of Representatives the scenario is also complicated for the ruling party where a legislator was also expelled, Lourdes Arrietaamid Mauricio Macri’s attempt to remove Martín Menem from the presidency of the Chamber of Deputies.
Source: Ambito
