Radical MP Mariano Campero accused the opposition of being “destabilisers” and “hypocrites”.
One of the radical deputies who changed their vote, Mariano Camperodefended his support for the veto on retirement mobility that he himself had voted for a few days earlier. “Here we have to let them govern, they constantly want to put obstacles in the way”“That is the truth in Argentina,” he said in the hall.
Camper He was one of the five radicals who changed their vote after meeting with the President Javier Milei. After this decision he was strongly criticised by his colleagues from other blocs. During the session he tried to defend himself: “The hypocrisy that can be heard in this room. Those who are used to López’s bags believe that we are all the same.”
He then mentioned the 82% veto of the then president Cristina Kichner and accused Peronism of having carried out “coups d’état” against the governments of the radicals Raúl Alfonsín and Fernando De La Rúa. He accused President Milei of wanting to destabilize him.
“This veto forced the government to issue or go into debt, generating inflation, and that inflation is what you are trying to do to destabilize this government once and for all.”justified CamperWhat he did not explain is why he thinks this now and not when he voted in favor of the same law that, according to his words, seeks to destabilize.
Finally, he presented himself as an elected national deputy on the Juntos por el Cambio list headed by Patricia Bullrich and Luis Petri, currently ministers of La Libertad Avanza. “I will not be a participant in the destabilization that you Kirchnerists who have lost their memory want to do (sic)”, hill.
With last-minute allies, the Government achieved a victory and ratified the veto of the pension reform
While there was a Mobilization of retirees together with unions (whose demonstration was heard inside Congress)the Chamber of Deputies debated the Presidential veto of pension reform. The successive Javier Milei’s meetings with allied blocks of the PRO and the UCR ended up being a favorable day for the Government.
The opposition achieved a majority in the House, but To overturn Javier Milei’s veto, 166 votes were needed (two thirds of the 248 legislators present, given that 9 were absent) and the balance was 153 in favor, 87 against and 8 abstentions. In this context, The current pension system established by decree remains in force by the Government in the month of March.
At the beginning of the session, the following was carried out: The swearing in of Entre Ríos native Nancy Ballejos in place of the radical Pedro Galimbertiwho resigned from his seat to take charge of the Salto Grande Joint Technical Commission. Referenced with Together for Change, the brand new legislator – lawyer and official of the Ministry of the Interior during the administration of Alberto Fernández – could join the Federal Encounter bloc or the PRO: If this second path is taken, the yellow bench would be the second largest.
Source: Ambito
