The deputy Fernando Carbajalwho now belongs to the block Democracy Forever (more opposed to the national government, based on an alliance between Facundo Manes and Martín Lousteau), spread on their social networks that “we criminally denounce President Milei and Chancellor Werthein for the Stalinist-libertarian purge in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The ideological persecution violates the Constitutionthe Intelligence Law and the Penal Code. “We are not going to be silent in the face of authoritarianism and McCarthyism.”
In the writing that the legislator himself made public, it is recorded as The criminal complaint is framed in “prohibited intelligence actions” (with sentences of between three to ten years in prison) and requests “the preventive intervention of federal justice to prevent the consummation of illegal discriminatory acts announced by the President of the Nation and his Minister of Foreign Affairs”.
Foreign Ministry: after the inauguration of Gerardo Werthein, the government of Javier Milei advances in layoffs and possible closures of embassies
Gerardo Werthein He took office on Monday as the new chancellor after the departure of Diana Mondino and wasted no time in moving forward with the new policy on diplomatic relations. The official has a clear mandate to pursue “agendas inimical to freedom,” and within that framework he has already asked everyone in the San Martin Palace to make their resignations available.
But the purge doesn’t end there. As far as he could know Scopethe ruling party promotes the closure of embassies “that have no commercial link with Argentina” and replace them with a type of regional offices.
Despite the intention, career diplomats assured this medium that the measure that La Libertad Avanza aspires to “not very feasible in practice”due to the international agreements that Argentina maintains with other countries and the number of employees who work in the embassies.
But in addition to cuts in the number of personnel – which they estimate will be around 50% -, In the Government they want a “readjustment” of lands and pensions. Officials with an office at Balcarce 50 revealed to this medium that the objective is for the salaries of diplomats to “correspond with those of the rest of the State workers.”
Regarding this last point, the ruling party will try to modify the fine print of the law 22.73, which contemplates the specific retirement regime for the Personnel of the Foreign Service of the Nation. It establishes that the ordinary retirement income is equivalent to 85% of the total remuneration assigned to the highest ranking category performed in the Foreign Service for a minimum period of four continuous or discontinuous years.
Deputies: opposition rushes session to limit Javier Milei’s DNU
In less than a month, and by interpreting that different articles removed from the Bases law were subsequently decreed by the Government of Javier Milei, opposition deputies They managed to agree on a project that reforms the current regime of Necessity and Urgency Decrees (DNU) that will be voted on National Congress.
The session was called for next Tuesday, November 12 at 3 p.m. and would include accompaniments from the blocks Federal Meeting, Union for the Homeland, Democracy forever and the Left Front: If they have no absences and take a unanimous position, they would obtain the parliamentary majority to modify the DNU regime established in the law 26,122promoted by Kirchnerism in 2006. The position of Federal Innovation and the PROwhile Freedom Advances will reject the initiative, but is considering requesting a session for Wednesday the 13th with electoral reforms.
The initiative that obtained an opinion has three specific points: clarify the definition of need and urgencythat the rejection of one of the two chambers is sufficient to revoke a DNU and establish a validity period of the decrees up to 90 days. After that time, Congress must vote to approve the continuity of the policies and no longer to repeal them, as is currently the case. This last point is the only variation in the deputies’ proposals. Karina Banfi (UCR) and Juan Manuel Lopez (Civic Coalition), which for the moment did not speak out in favor of the majority project.
Source: Ambito
