While postponing the discussion of the main economic project in committees until October, the government is moving ahead with union and security reforms.
The official negotiating table has already been set, The Government will continue the round of meetings to convince governors and opponents to approve the 2025 Budget with the least amount of modifications possible. So far, only Union for the Homeland stressed their resistance to supporting the project and insist on the presence in commissions of Luis Caputowhose last day in the Congress -in 2018, when he was a minister- ended early due to the harassment of Peronist questions.
The Government can rely on one certainty: the Opposition considered dialogist will seek to avoid leaving the current administration without a Budget and they value – as they did in past votes and as they interpret the electorate does as well – the priority that exists in the fiscal balance. However, and although they know that it is a discursive exaltation, There is concern in the provinces about the adjustment that Javier Milei is asking of them, whose management insists on disbursements for strategic public works that can attract new productive investments.
Although his treatment is expected in October, the Budget It will be debated in a commission this week, based on the first controversy that was made public: the law presented by the President proposes to suspend during Fiscal Year 2025 the laws on Financing the National Science System, Technical Professional Education and National Education. That is why opposition blocks (Union for the Fatherland and Federal Encounter) presented projects for this Wednesday that allow the articles that establish a minimum percentage of GDP investment for education and science.
Beyond the preliminary situation of the debate of Budgetsince the blocks unanimously respond to be studying the detail of the 75 items that compose it, the official discourse can be added to a triumph by the hand of a radical initiative: the reform of the trade union law which would obtain a ruling on Tuesday in the Labour Legislation CommissionAmong the most sensitive changes, which union leaders are resisting, are the limit on indefinite re-elections, the elimination of the obligation of automatic solidarity quotas and the regulation of a female quota in union leadership.
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Deputies
Another of the Government’s concerns is the passing of a legislative year in which, so far, it has only approved – and nothing less – the Bases law. While they are pleased to analyze the paralysis of the Bicameral Commission for Legislative Procedure -which deals with the validity of the DNUs-, is already receiving complaints from the sector closest to Macrism that asks for the formation of the Bicameral Committee for Monitoring Privatizations to advance the legal process of sale of Aerolíneas ArgentinasAt the same time, two other initiatives to which he placed expectations are being delayed: Hojarasca Law announced by Minister Federico Sturzenegger -no block knows its content yet- and the sheets to name as judges of the Court to Ariel Lijo and Manuel García-Mansilla.
Security, back on the legislative agenda
One of the most efficient – and silent – tasks that the ruling party carried out at the beginning of the year was to place deputies from its bloc or allied spaces in charge of strategic commissions. This is the case of Criminal Legislationchaired by Laura Rodriguez Machado (PRO)which last week gave way to the projects of the regime of trial in absentia and the criminal classification of the sale of children. Both this latest initiative and the expansion of the National Registry of Genetic Data -with approval from the Senate- could become law in the coming months.
Linked to these proposals is the Government’s intention to modify the Internal Security Actwhich plans to increase the scope of the Armed forces to intervene in local situations without the need to declare a state of siege. The National Defense Commissionchaired by Ricardo Lopez Murphy (Federal Meeting)has already called for Luis Petri and the former minister Horacio Jaunarena to defend the project. They will be joined on Tuesday by the lawyer Felix Lonigrobut it can represent for the first time a contrast the intervention of the Lieutenant General Juan Martin Paleowho was head of the forces during the administration of Alberto Fernandez.
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Precisely the Ministry of Defense is under observation, mainly from the block of Senators of the Union for the HomelandIn a joint statement, they repudiated that Luis Petri has donated a Navy ship for a “functional masterclass” run by a chain of gyms. “A clear attempt to trivialize and trivialize a multipurpose scientific instrument such as the icebreaker ARA Almirante Irizar,” they said.
Congress agenda for the week
CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES
- Tuesday, 13 hours. Labour Legislation Commission: modifications to Law on Trade Union Associations and Collective Labor Agreements.
- Tuesday, 4 p.m. National Defense Commission: modification of Internal Security Act.
- Tuesday, 5 p.m. Plenary session of the Culture and General Legislation committees: creation of the National Registry of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
- Wednesday, 3:30 p.m. Education Commission: treatment of National Education Law and Technical Professional Education Law. Modifications to the evaluation regime.
SENATE
- Wednesday, 13 hours. Plenary session of the National Defense and Foreign Affairs committees: Authorization of entry of foreign troops into national territory for combined exercises.
- Wednesday, 4:30 p.m.: presentation of the bill for the creation of the Interest Management Regime.
Source: Ambito
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