The ruling party faces a key stoppage in Congress today: the opposition must gather the votes of two-thirds of the lower house to insist on the bill that has already been approved. Previously, the Government claims to have already secured 84 votes to shield the veto – of the 87 necessary if all legislators appear -, a number that is reduced with each legislator who does not appear in today’s session.
Veto on university financing: what the representative who left the session said
Through your account xthe legislator belonging to the block of Federal Meeting announced that he will not attend today’s session, because he is “going through health problems, including COVID“Thus, Torres confirmed his absence in a key vote that remains open and is defined vote by vote.
Previously, the Córdoba deputy had expressed her rejection of Milei’s veto and had expressed his support for public and free universities. In his message today, Torres confirmed his position on the debate: “I want to reaffirm my position on this issue: universities are a pillar and the future of our society. “We cannot conceive of a country with underfunded universities.”
“Therefore, I reject the veto of the University Financing Law“, he stated in his post. However, with his confirmed absence, the opposition loses a vote and the Government – which claims to have 84 votes secured facing the vote -, is even closer to the number necessary to shield the President’s veto.
University financing: the Government, close to shielding Javier Milei’s veto
In the run-up to the session in Congress, and after a meeting with the parliamentary negotiation table that they have with their allies (PRO and MID) the government announced a 6.8% increase for university workers. In this way, the ruling party is getting closer to shielding Milei’s veto on the higher education financing bill.
Just minutes into the session, the factor of fouls and abstentions -which have the same value when a quorum is guaranteed- will be the determinant of a close session. For licenses, There are two known absences of votes against the veto (Carbajal and López Murphy) and one in favor (Zago). In the last hours, the absence of Deputy Torres from the Federal Meeting was also confirmed.
What remains are still questions, although three missionaries from Federal Innovation (everyone except Arrúa) would not be present either. Two months ago, in August, the latter had voted in favor of university financing.
This leaves an optimistic scenario for the Government ahead of the 11 o’clock session. Until now, the ruling party would have ensured 84 votes to shield the veto, while the united opposition has 160, almost double the support but with the urgency of twisting all the doubters in its favor and ensuring that they do not prefer to be absent.
In the last hours, the opposition would have secured the vote of Lourdes Arrieta. “In the veto of retirements, and after four hours of talking with her, we were able to convince her to abstain,” the ruling party told this medium, “but the trolls don’t help: they drive her crazy on the networks. The other time he took a photo with Quintela; That was more about fever than politics.”.
With the announcement of salary increase This same Tuesday (second increase in 24 hours), the Government seeks dissuade university groups so that they mitigate their forceful measures, which have already escalated to the seizure of powers – there are approximately 30 institutions that maintain forceful measures – and will be reflected again in the vicinity of Congress.
A final tool that the opposition has is the ascendancy of the university authorities: it was known that at least the universities of Tucumán, Córdoba, La Pampa and Patagonia They contacted deputies from their provinces to let them know your demand to approve the project. Its impact, and mobilization, are the only possible way to twist wills in a vote that, minutes after starting, still remains open-ended.
Source: Ambito
