As confirmed to Scope From the block PRO in it Parliament Capital, the debate that was going to take place this Thursday from 14 in the enclosure was postponed for February 21. The possible sanction of the project of La Libertad advances In the Senate, which proposes that national primary ones be left without effect for these mid -term elections, it will be key to the definition in the city. The Head of Government, Jorge Macri, will closely follow the details of the National Debate Due to the partners that will have within the Legislature. The attention will be put in the position taken by the block of the Justicialist party in the Upper House.
The legislature is made up of 60 benches from various tribes. The first minority is union for the homeland. Without the 18 votes of the Peronist bloc, and with the certainty that the three members of the left will pronounce against, the PRO It is located at a crossroads: at the moment it does not have enough support to reach 40 wills, but they aspire to achieve the task.
City delay definition of the passage waiting for the national contest
The Buenos Aires ruling needs to achieve a special majority to reform the current electoral legislation that enables primary in the city. While in Peronism the intention to accompany the project had to accompany this medium, in the last hours the interior of the Capital PJ the position against the suspension of the partisan interns.
Yesterday afternoon, an relative to an important leader of Peronism of CABA He pointed to this media that they will wait for the resolution of the legislative battle that will take place at the national level. “The decision is not taken. It will be taken later to the vote of the Senate”he said. In addition, he remarked that the block will vote together, whether in favor, against or abstain, so there will be no ruptures.
On the libertarian side there were also news regarding the position to be adopted in the enclosure. Until last week, the block that leads Pilar Ramírez It was positioned against the suspension and struggled for the Elimination of the step. However, in the last hours they advanced that they will support the project of Jorge Macri, despite his differences.
“Freedom progresses will accompany the suspension”they explained from the Buenos Aires terminal, although they stressed that the block will require the mayor to $ 20,000 million Savings “have to return directly to Buenos Aires in the form of fiscal credit that is reflected in discounts on the ABL ballot.”
“Beyond that we are going to accompany the suspension, we believe it is a patch made at the convenience of the head of government and we will insist with the definitive elimination of the passage, the project of clean file in the city and establish a fixed date for the elections , so that in the future the electoral calendar is not handled according to the convenience of any head of government, “they deepened.
As this media previously commented, the space UCR evolution It remains firm in favor of the suspension of primary. This was advanced weeks ago both the president of the block Manuela Toute as the legislator Francisco Loupias. They ensure that the step makes sense to executive positions, but do not fulfill the same function for legislative inmates. In addition, it will allow significant budget savings for Buenos Aires.
“The step makes sense to executive positions. Suspend them this year is fine, since they are legislative. In addition to the budget savings that implies for all Buenos Aires, “said the head of the block, Manuela Thourte. The same exposed the legislator Francisco Loupias At the end of January: “I agree to suspend the step in this case that they are local and only legislative.” The UCR Evolution block has 8 spaces.
Jorge Macri’s defense at the suspension of the Paso
The Buenos Aires mayor argues that the suspension of the passage will allow the city to save an important sum of money from public coffers, in a difficult socio -economic context. “It is a disbursement of $ 20 billion. We could discuss what to use these funds and that the different blocks propose, “he had advanced last December in a C5N interview.
In defense of the project, Macri also argues that, if approved, it will govern only for the mid -term elections: “Inmates are practically not used when the legislative is discussed“
Given the uncertainty generated by the national scenario, the ruling party decided to avoid Thursday’s session since the roads led to the call of an intermediate room. For practical purposes, the position of postponing for Friday, waiting for the definition in the Senate. Once the future of the national project is sentenced, the debate in the Legislature.
The suspension of the Porteñas passes are framed within a plan by the mayor to unfold the elections and advance the local contest, a priori, for July 6. The objective is to take off the electoral campaign of the national elections to concentrate the attention of the neighbors on the Buenos Aires agenda: Copartition, security, education and health, They appear among the main topics to be discussed.
Source: Ambito
