President Javier Milei celebrated the failed attempt to reject his veto of the increase for retirees in the House of Representatives. The “zero deficit is non-negotiable,” he said.
President Javier Milei.
Mariano Fuchila
After the frustrated rejection of the veto in the House of Representatives, the president Javier Milei celebrated the vote on Wednesday: “Today 87 heroes put a stop to the degenerate prosecutors who tried to destroy the fiscal surplus”The president did not do no mention to the repression which is being carried out in front of Congress.
In his post, the president He again attacked the “politicians” and maintained that the “zero deficit is non-negotiable.” He also maintained that the deputies who promoted the retirement mobility law They want to “overthrow a government that for the first time chooses to tell Argentines an uncomfortable truth from a comfortable lie”.
Along the same lines, the Office of the President issued a statement in which they described the 87 deputies who voted in favor of the veto as “patriots.” “The Office of the President highlights the patriotic work of the 87 national deputies who prevented a group of irresponsible people from adopting populist measures that would have bankrupted the public coffers”they said in the statement.
According to the President’s Office, theThe aim of the slight increase for retirees voted in Congress was to destroy the fiscal surplus, “a commitment that has cost Argentines so much effort to achieve and that other governments have failed to achieve during their mandate.”
The President’s Office saw no way to meet the increase. The only way would have been to “raise taxes, printing money and generating inflation, or take on debt that implies inflation for future generations.” In short, according to the statement, the new retirement mobility formula was “bread for today and hunger for tomorrow.”
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With last-minute allies, the Government achieved a victory and ratified the veto of the pension reform
While there was a Mobilization of retirees together with unions (whose demonstration was heard inside Congress)the Chamber of Deputies debated the Presidential veto of pension reform. The successive Javier Milei’s meetings with allied blocks of the PRO and the UCR ended up being a favorable day for the Government.
The opposition achieved a majority in the House, but To overturn Javier Milei’s veto, 166 votes were needed (two thirds of the 248 legislators present, given that 9 were absent) and the balance was 153 in favor, 87 against and 8 abstentions. In this context, The current pension system established by decree remains in force by the Government in the month of March.
At the beginning of the session, the following was carried out: The swearing in of Entre Ríos native Nancy Ballejos in place of the radical Pedro Galimbertiwho resigned from his seat to take charge of the Salto Grande Joint Technical Commission. Referenced with Together for Change, the brand new legislator – lawyer and official of the Ministry of the Interior during the administration of Alberto Fernández – could join the Federal Encounter bloc or the PRO: If this second path is taken, the yellow bench would be the second largest.
Source: Ambito
