Casa Rosada believes it has enough votes in Congress to sell the flagship company, after meetings with governors and deputies.
Although his first attempt at Chamber of Deputies was hampered by the lack of prior agreements, the national government resumed the agenda for the privatization of Aerolíneas Argentinas in meetings parallel to the parliamentary sphere and seeks to make official what has already been established by decree.
As Ámbito learned, the privatization of Aerolíneas Argentinas was one of the topics discussed at the meeting Pink House between representatives of the Libertad Avanza, the PRO and radicalism. This block has a key role in the debate: the Mendoza Pamela Verasay (UCR) is the owner of the Transportation Commission and she was the one who made the call. Until this Thursday it had not been done due to lack of consensus, so the officialization of the meeting, which will be next Tuesday at 11 am, is quite a symptom.
To the support of the majority sector of radicalism, that of the current legislative coalition of the ruling party would be added (PRO, LLA, MID) and the Civic Coalition, which also presented a project for privatization. To the uncertainty of the new sector of the UCR (“Democracy Forever”), are added the doubtful positions of Federal Meeting and other provincial representatives, that they wanted to establish conditions for the sale of the company before endorsing it. The meetings of the national Executive with governors would have unlocked these doubts.
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In the opposition there are Unión por la Patria and the Left Front, which highlight the negative experience of the sale of Argentine Airlines in the 1990s0. They demand audits of the last ten months to try to reverse the deficient mechanisms before moving forward with a sale; and they ask to contemplate that The company makes non-commercial destinations and competes with other companies for the most sought after destinations.
The path of privatization of Aerolíneas Argentinas in Congress
In the last week of September, and in in the middle of a union conflict with aeronautical workersthe Government sought to sanction by law the possibility of privatize Aerolíneas Argentinas. He forced a call to the Transportation Commission in Deputies without prior evaluation of the legislative scenario, which he learned at that very moment: he does not have automatic support to sell the company. So, a new decree was decided.
The six hours that the debate on September 25 lasted, and the presence of front-line officials, such as the Secretary of Transportation Franco Mogetta and the deputy chief of staff Jose Rolandiexplained the urgency of the ruling party, which made it clear that it could obtain a ruling that same day. If this was not the case, it was because the expected Peronist resistance was joined by the lack of support from radicalism and members of Encuentro Federalblocks previously considered dialogueists that in the last sessions found themselves voting against measures from the national government.
The measure, which seems to speed up the process, opens a new succession of debates in other spaces. Firstly, and based on a modification that was made to the Bases law, the privatization of the company must be evaluated – along with a list of eight other state companies – in Special Bicameral Commission for State Reform and Monitoring of Privatizations. The peculiarity is that it has not yet been formed, nor is it known who will make it up or its composition, after the last alteration within the Senate blocks.
Source: Ambito
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