The opposition in the Upper House intends to approve the education financing law, which would once again challenge the government’s surplus.
The parliamentary climate of the weekend was marked by the Javier Milei’s late-night veto of the new retirement system established by law ten days before. However, the objective of macroeconomic order may again be put at risk by the advance of the Education financing law in Senate committeeswhere the opposition will try to strengthen the university budget a day after the visit of Guillermo Francos to Congress.
The Chief of Staff’s entourage is working against the clock to ensure a management report that covers the Record number of questions received: 3,300. The questions far exceeded the 1,286 received by Nicolás PosseFrancos’ predecessor in office, and even the previous historical record that he defended Santiago Cafiero when in 2021 he answered 2,596 queriesThe Minister of the Interior received the order in Pink House to resume efforts in legislative negotiations and his presentation will be the prelude to his new challenge: the construction of agreements for the approval of the 2025 Budget with the premise of zero deficit.
The ruling party’s macroeconomic project will be put to the test in the Senate of the Nation after the opposition rushes the formation of the Education and Culture Committeewhich will be chaired by Wado of PedroThe Peronist legislator will try to rely on the radical support, the block that authored the educational financing lawto obtain a ruling in a plenary session next Tuesday and Bring the project to the premises 48 hours laterThe threat to the Government is broad: the session would represent an excuse for the opposition to deal with the rejection of the DNU that granted reserved funds to the Intelligence Service.
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Deputies, the wall against an opposition majority
The Meeting that Javier Milei had on Friday at Casa Rosada with deputies from La Libertad Avanza and allies of the ruling party explained the accounts that the Government has in mind: If he aligns the PRO and all the legislators who supported him, he reaches 86 supports and leaves a possible opposition alliance two votes below the special majority. “I think that with our presence they will not reach two thirds,” he predicted. Christian Ritondo after the summit, which represented a more ardent renewal of the link between both parties for the parliamentary future.
The opposition’s hope is that the damage done by the libertarian political construction model will provoke a resentment that there is a sudden change in some parliamentarian. The scenario appears complex. Peronism is still lamenting the three Tucuman deputies who left the block and would unblock the special majority. As consolation, they plan the formation of an investigative commission to sanction the Six members of La Libertad Avanza who visited genocidaires in the Ezeiza prison.
Although the departure of two legislators in one week did not represent an internal or external outburst, the libertarian bloc cannot channel its discord in private. The latest public event renewed a long-standing resentment between Marcela Paganowho dodged a possible exit in the last week, and Lilia Lemoine: The journalist suggested to her colleague that she take a “psychiatric pill”. Coincidences with the recommendations of Cristina Kirchner to the head of the Peronist senators bloc, José Mayanswhich express the climate of political priorities and impact the electorate’s assessment of its representatives.
Low profile but without stopping, The Government is moving forward with its security agenda. Horacio Jaunarenaformer Minister of Defense of Fernando De la Rúa, will defend the reform of the Internal Security Actwhich would enable the intervention of the Armed Forces in domestic situations.
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Another of its initiatives, the Juvenile Penal Regime, It is supported by the strategy designed by the president of the Criminal Legislation Commission, the Cordoban Laura Rodriguez Machado (PRO): allow the opposition to bring all the specialists it considers relevant and, regardless of the fact that week after week they argue against the reduction of imputability, finalize a ruling in September that sets the punishability at 14 years.
Congress agenda for the week
CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES
- Tuesday, 2 p.m. Plenary session of the Criminal Legislation, Families and Children, Justice and Budget and Finance committees: Juvenile Criminal Regime.
- Tuesday, 3pm. Disability Commission: Free electricity service rates for electro-dependent users.
- Tuesday, 4 pm. National Defense Commission: Former Defense Minister Horacio Jaunarena will present an analysis of Amendment to Law 24.059 on Internal Securitywhich enables the intervention of the Armed Forces in civil society.
- Tuesday, 16:30 hours. Plenary session of the Petitions and Constitutional Affairs committees: creation of a special commission to investigate the Visit of six deputies from La Libertad Advances to repressors detained in the Ezeiza prison for crimes against humanity committed during the last dictatorship.
- Wednesday, 11 a.m. Session in the chamber: the Chief of Staff, Guillermo Francos will make the management report in front of members of both chambers.
SENATE
- Tuesday, 2:30 p.m. Plenary session of the Federal Tax Sharing and Budget and Treasury commissions: creation of the Financial and Fiscal Coordination System.
- Tuesday, 16:30. Plenary session of the Education and Culture and Budget and Finance committees: educational financing law.
Source: Ambito
