The PRO Board of Directors headed by Mauricio Macrimet this Monday via zoom to analyze the party’s position in relation to the Javier Milei’s veto of the university financing lawwhich will begin to be debated this Wednesday in Deputies. After the summit, the PRO issued a statement in which it expressed: “Our bloc already voted majority in the Chamber of Deputies a few weeks ago, rejecting that law. “We still think the same thing.”
However, he was critical of the Government, stating: “Having been in office for ten months, the government is in a conflict aggravated by internal issues within the government itself, a conflict that could have been avoided with professional and efficient management. As we have always noted, for the PRO, management matters”.
And he listed what he understands as failures in the relationship between the Government and the universities. The extension of the 2023 Budget for the 2024 financial year, joint disagreements and multiple points linked to the General Auditor’s Office of the Nation (AGN), the body in charge of reviewing the accounts of the study houses.
The meeting prevented the legislative meeting from taking place in Casa Rosada, which is usually led by the Chief of Staff Guillermo Francos with legislators from the ruling party and allies such as Cristian Ritondo, head of the PRO bloc in the lower house. This space will have a decisive conclave on Tuesday afternoon, although so far the yellow deputies seem to disperse, since some of them will vote with the Government, others will oppose the veto and some will abstain.
From 11 a.m. and via Zoom, the PRO meeting was held where, in addition to Macri, the head of the City of Buenos Aires, Jorge Macri; the president of the block Cristian Ritondo; and the mayor of Vicente López and vice president of the PRO, Soledad Martínez. The governors of Entre Ríos, Rogelio Frigerio; from Chubut, Ignacio Torres They were not there for “scheduling reasons.”
The National Government needs to reach 87 votes to protect the decree that rejected that law, so the 38 votes of the PRO are key, although it is already known that at least two legislators close to Horacio Rodríguez Larreta will not accompany the presidential decision. Álvaro González has already announced that he will reject the veto. Diego Santilli will support him. Between absences, abstentions and crossed votes, the PRO is preparing to go down to the premises without a unified position.
On Sunday, Mauricio Macri He implied with a message on his social networks that he personally endorses Javier Milei’s veto, although he did not express how the deputies in his orbit would vote. It is assumed that those who are in Patricia Bullrich’s wing will accompany the Government. “The defense of the public university, its free, free and democratic access, requires putting an end to the political use of university resources,” was the end of the message from the former president who also supported the audit of the universities promoted by the national government through by Sandra Pettovello.
Until now, the Government has the 39 votes of the LLA and could add, as happened when the veto of the retirement law was confirmed, two deputies from the MID. The doubts now pass through the deputies who answer to the governors. The eight from Federal Innovation who abstained from vetoing the retirement reform, some of them would vote against the Government, like the three from Salta. Missionaries and Rio Negros could take the same position. Also in doubt are the two from Production and Labor, who respond to Marcelo Orrego from San Juan, or the three from Independence, commanded by Osvaldo Jaldo from Tucumán.
Source: Ambito
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