Dissident radicalism insists on Budget: “We repudiate the submission to the governors and the mistreatment of Parliament”

Dissident radicalism insists on Budget: “We repudiate the submission to the governors and the mistreatment of Parliament”

In a press conference, and after the suspension of the treatment of the budget law Ten days before the end of the parliamentary year, the head of the bench Democracy Foreverthe Buenos Aires native Pablo Julianoraised his concern that “Argentina once again remains outside the law”: “The President of the Nation cannot understand that, in this unprecedented event of extend the Budget for the second consecutive year, Consider that a blank check.

In this framework, he recalled that “we have presented a draft resolution to request the extension of ordinary sessions until December 31″ and expressed his repudiation of “submission to the governors and the mistreatment that is done to Parliament”. “The effort that Argentines make daily has to find a spring and an echo in the walls of this Parliament,” he added.

Pablo Juliano Facundo Manes Deputies UCR

Pablo Juliano and Facundo Manes, members of Democracia para Siempre.

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His blockmate, the man from Formosa Fernando Carbajalpointed to the radical legislative agenda: “We want to meet in November and we want to meet in December to discuss Clean record, the DNU law and the National Budget“In all the sessions that have been called, whoever called them, we came and gave decorum,” he recalled.

Subsequently, the Buenos Aires Danya Tavela asked to avoid “definancing our provinces, our universities and drown our retired in poverty.” His co-provincial Facundo Manes pointed out that “we are facing a President with authoritarian behavior and there is already enough evidence of pact between Cristina Kirchner and Javier Milei”.

Claim of the provinces

The possibility of including new opinions to vote in the chamber is now closed, there are still ten days left for the end of ordinary sessions and in the different blocks a series of issues are reiterated that they will strive to address before November 30: again Clean Sheetthe limitation of online betting advertising and -one of the opposition wishes- reform of the DNU law.

However, everyone repeats the central interest in dealing with the project of Budget 2025. “We were totally consistent in our requests, but it seems that They care about SIDE and the Ministry of Defense and we are with universities and retirement funds“, summarized a radical deputy close to a governorship. On the other side of the political spectrum, Germán Martínez (Union for the Homeland) shared the view: “When they saw that the proposal of the provinces could have led to some change in the Budget, they returned to the original plan, which was not have this law”.

This vision is shared by all legislative representatives linked to provincial governments. “The governors asked for some adjustments to the Budget knowing that the Government did not want to debate it. What we knew was going to happen happened; The Government did not accept anything and the Budget fell. The governors lost again“, they told Ámbito from Cordovawhile from Chaco they stated that “the Nation does not want the Budget because that would allow it to continue managing with total Discretionary resources in an electoral year“.

Now it remains to know if the Government He will offer concessions to the governors. There are two possibilities: postpone regular sessions (which would enable any bloc to propose topics for voting) or call extraordinary sessions (which limits the parliamentary agenda to its proposals). Until now, the possibility of using the Budget 2023 another year, patched with decrees, and negotiate with international organizations through the guidelines of the DNU 846/2024 on free debt exchange.

Source: Ambito

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