The Chamber of Deputies The debate on the privatization of will begin tomorrow Argentine Airlines in a plenary session of Transport and Budget committees. The ruling party will seek to issue an opinion in order to debate the initiatives presented by Hernan Lombardiof the PRO, and for Juan Manuel Lopezof the Civic Coalition, next week in the building.
The discussion to enable the privatization of the flag carrier will begin at 11 a.m. The following will be present: Deputy Chief of Staff, José Rolandi; he President of Aerolíneas Argentinas, Fabián Lombardo, and Secretary of Transportation, Franco Mogetta.
The Government wants to advance the privatization of the company in the midst of a strong conflict with the aeronautical unions, which are carrying out forceful measures wage claims and rejection of layoffs.
The Government’s objective is to achieve approval of the privatization of airlines along with the projects of the Single Paper Ballot (BUP) and Clean Card, reported sources from the ruling party.
The project is voted on by simple majority, which means LLA does not have to reach 129 positive votes but it does have to have more support than Union for the Fatherland (UxP), the left and other opposition parties who, in principle, will not reject the project.
The government already failed in its first attempt to privatize the company in December. Airlines was included in the initial list of privatizations that appeared in one of the articles of the Bases law. However, opposition senators negotiated to remove it from the list and it was ultimately not included in the final version of the initiative that was approved.
Privatization of Aerolíneas Argentinas: what the new initiatives propose
The project of Lombardi establishes to declare “subject to privatization, under the terms and with the effects provided for in Law No. 23,696 on State Reform, the company Aerolíneas Argentinas SA.”
In addition, it is authorized to “establish the legal framework and carry out the procedure to implement the privatization process referred to in Article 1.”
Instead, the initiative of the Civic Coalition calls for the provisions included in the Bases Law to be respected in order to proceed with privatizationwhich includes the participation of the Bicameral Commission on Privatizations of Congress, the Office of the General Comptroller of the Nation and the Office of the General Audit of the Nation (AGN).
In this regard, the law establishes that the commission must be informed of any preference granted to a potential purchaser by the National Executive Branch within the framework of the provisions of Article 17 of Law 23,696.
Also of the measures adopted to guarantee the principles of “transparency, competition, maximum participation, equality, publicity and open government in decision-making processes.”
Source: Ambito
