Javier Milei vs Victoria Villarruel: key position in the Senate in danger

The governors do not give up. To the five menu of claims to include in the Budget 2025 adds this week the possibility that Congress annuls Javier Milei’s debt swap DNU. The provincial leaders opened a negotiation window until Thursday, when they could join in the Senate to the attack against DNU 846/2024 that also motivated a request for a special session for tomorrow in Deputies with the signature of the main opposition blocs.

The regular period of sessions ends on Friday and, if there is not a call from the National Executive Branch for extraordinary sessions starting in December, the Budget 2025 could remain in nothing and Javier Milei would have discretion to allocate the items with a new extension of the 2023 Budget.

That is why the governors across the congressional blocs are accumulating artillery for this week, so that the Government finally enables them to negotiate a negotiating table to try to revive the draft “Law Law.”

Internal in the Senate

But last night, Jose Mayanshead of the Unión por la Patria bloc in the Senate added a new element of pressure to the Casa Rosada. In an interview with the program “No la Ven” on C5N, he warned that during the preparatory session of the Senate, which usually takes place in February, the opposition could push for a change in the provisional presidential of the Upper House currently occupied by the libertarian, Bartolomé Abdala. . A move that operates in a mirror in Deputies where the Federal Meeting of Miguel Pichetto I have already let the possibility of replacing Martín Menem as president of the lower house emerge.

Mayans assured that “some senators have already raised the possibility of voting in the Senate preparatory on a new provisional presidency,” a move that the dissident libertarian, Francisco Paoltroni, did not rule out either.

This is a position in the line of succession to power and Mayans’ proposal comes at the height of the internal dispute between Javier Milei and Victoria Villarruel, the president of the Senate. There is even the immediate precedent of the agreement between UP and Martín Lousteau’s UCR to leave La Libertad Avanza without the presidency of the influential bicameral commission for monitoring intelligence agencies.

Hit to Javier Milei

In August, based on an agreement between Unión por la Patria (UP) and a sector of radicalism, Lousteau was appointed to the front of the Bicameral Commission for the Supervision of Intelligence Agencies and Activitiesa key position that was disputed by La Libertad Avanza (LLA) and the PRO. The same scheme could be repeated in February in the preparatory session where the libertarian from San Luis, Bartolomé Abdala, should be ratified to continue leading the provisional presidency.

The governors could provide key votes to displace LLA from that position in the event that there is no agreement for the 2025 Budget. They also do not rule out the possibility of judicializing the claims and cite the precedent of the lawsuit that the City of Buenos Aires won before the Supreme Court for the co-participation funds.

In relation to the governors’ demand for funds and the exposed fracture between Milei and Villarruel, Guillermo Francos will have to present, among other topics, this Wednesday in the Senate. A statement signed by the president of the Upper House confirmed that the session in the Senate will be next Wednesday, October 27 at 10 a.m. “in order to receive the report from the Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers.” Definitions are especially expected in relation to the ATN co-participationthe payment of pension debtcertifications public works and the objective distribution of what they perceive throughfuel tax, requests from the provinces that the Casa Rosada did not include in the 2025 Budget project.