The main opposition blocks of the Chamber of Deputies They joined together today through a request for a special session to reject the veto of Javier Milei to the retirement mobility law that improves the assets by 8.1%. The UCRFederal Meeting of Miguel Pichettoand the Civic Coalition They thus designed a legislative strategy to speed up the processing of the veto and force La Libertad Avanza and the PRO to pay the political cost of that measure.
It will be a special and symbolic session to apply the principle of revelation to Javier Milei. Symbolic because even the Opposition blocs failed to secure two-thirds of the votes to override the veto against retirees. But they can gather 129 to enable a quorum and force LLLA and PRO to leave the chamber to pay the cost of blocking the possibility of enabling on the spot, with two thirds of those present, the treatment of the rejection of the presidential decree vetoing retirement mobility.
The move in the House of Representatives
The political move will also serve to summon José Luis Espert’s Budget and Finance Committee to address the treatment of the veto together with Social Security and Welfare. The LLA deputy had already resisted calling his committee when the retirement mobility was still a bill and had to also be summoned by the full House to call a meeting and thus be able to move forward with the ruling.
There was also a channel of dialogue with Union for the Homeland. It was agreed with Germán Martínez that the request to call a special session for next Wednesday would not be signed by any deputy from his party so that the rejection of Javier Milei’s veto would not be classified as a political maneuver by Peronism that drags the rest of the opposition along. Almost a principle of revelation in reverse to show that retirement mobility is not only a flag of Peronism but of all the blocks.
The opposition thus aims to expose La Libertad Avanza and Mauricio Macri’s PRO as the only blocks that reject the retirement mobility law. For this reason, already requested by the governorswill force the special session still without a number to reject the veto but to Open a negotiation window with the Casa Rosada in view of the 2025 Budget. Provincial leaders, financially suffocated by the halt in funding for public works, health, transportation and education, coupled with the drop in tax collection in their districts due to the recession, will go out to negotiate each vote against the veto in exchange for items in the law on state expenditures and expenses that Milei will present on Monday 16 in the House of Representatives.
Javier Milei’s goal
That’s why Javier Milei’s Freedom Advances is already working to ensure that the opposition does not gather two thirds: To do so, he must gather 86 votes, if all 257 legislators were present in the session hall. The atomization of the blocks of the Union for the Fatherland (UP), the UCR, PRO and even the Federal Meeting, added to the key role of the governorsopen in the Senate a scenario of uncertainty with more complications than in the Chamber of Deputies.
LLA will have to go out and fish for support among the governors. For example, the three national deputies for Tucumán who respond to Osvaldo Jaldo were absent from the session in the House of Representatives when the retirement mobility was approved, which increases pensions by 8.1%. The bench Federal Innovation could also contribute votes for the ruling party, just like the deputies of Rogelio Frigerio through Entre Ríos and Chubut Jorge Avila aligned with Ignacio Torres, that are part of the Federal Meeting of Miguel Pichetto.
The message with the presidential veto entered the Chamber of Deputies’ reception desk on Monday and was forwarded to the Budget and Finance and Social Security and Welfare committees. The Chamber of Deputies has 257 legislators, meaning that if all of them were present next Wednesday, the opposition would need to reach 172 votes. When the law was voted on in the chamber, it was approved with 160 votes in favor, 72 against, 16 absent and 8 abstentions.
In the recitals of the veto decree, the Government stated that The project approved by Congress “clearly violates the current legal framework since it does not consider the fiscal impact of the measure nor determine the source of its financing.” He also indicated that the Financial Administration Law is clear in expressly “requiring” that “any law authorizing expenditures not provided for in the general budget must specify the sources of the resources to be used for its financing.”
The Government argued in rejecting the law that if it were to be applied, it would generate an additional expenditure of 6 trillion pesos for 2024 and 15 trillion for 2025, which “are equivalent to 1.02 percent of the GDP calculated for the current year; and 1.64% of the GDP, estimated for the following year.” And it pointed out that, if the law sanctioned by the Government is applied, it will imply an increase of 18.5% of ANSES spending for 2024 and 29.2 for 2025.
Source: Ambito
