Specifically, the menu that the libertarian management provided to parliament includes the anti-mafia bills, Trial in Absentee, Reiteration and unification of sentences, Reform for Electoral Strengthening (elimination of the PASO), Clean Record, Compensation and Update Index of Senate Claims and Documents.
As occurred throughout 2024, Freedom Advances (LLA) It will require support to bring the initiatives to fruition, which will be discussed between January 20 and February 21, according to what was decreed by Milei. For this reason, the positions of the provincial leaders will be key to the intentions of the ruling party.
The extraordinary sessions inaugurate negotiations between the Government and the provinces
In context, the call does not come at the best time between the Nation and the provinces. The 10% drop in Federal Co-participation and the 76% collapse in discretionary transfers, both occurring in 2024, hit hard the coffers of the districts, which anticipate a complex year. The legislative elections end up rounding out a panorama of uncertainty in the political arena.
Added to this is Milei’s refusal to treat the Budget 2025granting itself the power to distribute funds as desired and piacere. This particular point will be one of the main obstacles when talking with the leaders and their legislators, who are already anticipating gruesome sessions.
“It is a thermo agenda of the Government and its interests. They intend to resolve the PASO issue and put part of the PRO in the bag with the Clean File issue,” he complained in dialogue with Scope a deputy from a province with good ties with the Casa Rosada. “We believe that the Government is looking the other way with the Budget and we are greatly concerned that it does not want to deal with it,” he added.
Even some non-Kirchnerist opposition blocks, such as Federal Meeting (EF), They are considering the possibility of not providing a quorum if the discussion of the “law of laws” is not included in the agenda. “We are talking about it in the block,” admitted a space sword that commands Miguel Ángel Pichetto.
A wayward radical deputy exhibited a similar position. “It is an agenda made for the tribune, with no possibility of real treatment within a period of 30 days. A clean slate is an antics, they only want to have a speech because the Milei Cristina pact affected it,” he argued.
For its part, in Unión por la Patria (UP) admitted that exclusion from the Budget generated a lot of discomfort in all blocks. They commented, in parallel, that no one spoke with the bloc about the call and that they will try to start conversations with LLA this week. Likewise, they will test other spaces to try to join forces, while the internal discussion will open on January 20.
The fight for the PASO
The elimination of the PASO is one of the points that generate the greatest risk. Even within the sector of radicals with wigs, allied with the Casa Rosada. There is also no unified position in the official UCR, where they admit that the debate is open.
On this point in particular, the fight is against the clock, since the calendar advances and the primaries are scheduled for Sunday, August 3. Dialogue governors do not have a unified position. As he was able to find out Scopeamong the PRO leaders are raising the idea of suspending them this year but not of eliminating them permanently.
This Monday, the governor of San Luis, Claudio Poggifirst and came out to support the project to repeal the PASO. “I share the repeal of the national PASO (open, simultaneous and mandatory primaries). In San Luis, during the year 2024, we repeal the Motto Law and all legislation that regulates a primary election “paid” by the Provincial State. We also create the Single Paper Ballot”, he commented on his social networks.
Like the Puntano district, Jump and Chaco They decided to suspend the PASO, while the head of the Buenos Aires Government, Jorge Macrisent a project to the Legislature to do the same in the City of Buenos Aires.
In addition to Federal Meetinganother of the blocks where legislators who respond to dialogue-oriented governors report is Federal Innovation. Leaders from Salta and missionaries coexist there. In total, both banks have 24 deputies, a not inconsiderable number to mediate between the hard opposition of Peronism and the ruling party and their permanent allies, such as the PRO.
Meanwhile, yellow administrations commented that the agenda of the extraordinary sessions does not include items that affect the provinces. However, they made the success of the projects dependent on the outcome of the negotiations with the governors. At this point, the Nation managed to successfully atomize the leagues; Today, talking about Together for Change (JxC) is an entelechy.
The first two weeks of the year brought some noise between the libertarian management and the subnational leaders. At the same time as the collapse of transfers in 2024 became known, the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputodemanded that the districts not encourage the collection of municipal taxes. On the other hand, the leaders of Santa Fe, Maximiliano Pullaro, and from Córdoba, Martín Llaryora, two temporary allies of the Government.
Source: Ambito
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