Deputies from La Libertad Avanza, the PRO and the Unión Cívica Radical participated in the meeting. They agree on agendas until the end of the year.
In the midst of the debate over Budget 2025officials of the national Executive called pro-government deputies and other parties with different level of alignment to a work meeting in Pink House. The meeting caused a new resentment within radicalism
The activity represented an expansion of the legislative policy coordination table that the national government already has with two other close blocks in Congress: the PRO and the MID. This time a large sector of the Radical Civic Union (UCR)which is in tension with another wing that calls for stronger opposition to the initiatives of the national management.
As confirmed by official sources to this medium, the project of the Budget 2025 was the central topic of the meeting, within the framework of the debate that is beginning to intensify its treatment in the plenary of commissions with two weekly meetings: this Tuesday there was Secretary of Tourism, Environment and Sports, Daniel Scioliwhile on Thursday he will participate Carlos Torrendell, head of the Ministry of Education. From the opposition they demand the presence of the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputoand request that the agreements be met within the scope of legislative discussion and not in parallel meetings.
The Deputy Chief of Staff of the Interior participated on behalf of the Executive, Lisandro Catalánthe presidential advisor, Santiago Caputoand the Minister of Deregulation and Transformation of the State, Federico Sturzenegger. This last official continues to promote the parliamentary treatment of the baptized Leaflitter lawwhich promotes the elimination of items that would have become unused.
The deputies present were Martín Menem, Nicolás Mayoraz, Nadia Márquez, Santiago Santurio, Carlos Zapata, Manuel Quintar and Gabriel Bornoroni (Freedom Advances); Cristian Ritondo and Silvana Giudici (PRO); and Rodrigo de Loredo, Soledad Carrizo, Luis Picat and Lisandro Nieri (UCR).
Tension grows in the UCR after the meeting
After a meeting of the bloc that postponed the breakup of the bench, the deputies of Radical Civic Union who were absent from the meeting Pink House They once again raised their disapproval of the closeness that members of the party show with the policy of the national government. Although there are two demarcated factions (the five that ratified the presidential veto on retirements and those closest to provincial governors, on the one hand; and those aligned with Martin Lousteau and Facundo Manes), those who remain neutral disagreed with this meeting.
“Everyone with the wig on. Overreacting the ruling party. The responsible opposition will debate the National Budget in the Chamber to defend the University, the Provinces and municipalities and the retirees,” the man from Formosa published on his social media account. Fernando Carbajalone of the main drivers of the breakup of the block. From the sector closest to the ruling party, they assure that the division is a fact but that the lack of internal coordination does not allow them to finalize the exit.
After the meeting is over, Rodrigo de Loredo -president of the block of Deputies of the UCR- He defined that the bench “is not exempt from a complex moment that all political spaces are experiencing. We are managing it with temperance.” “We radicals leave this meeting very satisfied because we came with a series of proposals but we have obtained one in particular, which has to do with the fact that the Budget provided for suspending a provision for educational investment and in science and technology.”
Source: Ambito
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