Bad scenario for the President in the Upper House, where the opposition already has the numbers to annul the DNU of reserved funds for the SIDE. In addition, they would force a new veto, this time on the law on educational financing.
Without an active coordination table in the House of Representatives due to the tension between Martín Menem and the PRO, Javier Milei will have to face 48 critical hours in the Honorable Congress of the Nation. Senate This afternoon, the House of Representatives will decide whether to hold a session today or tomorrow to convert the educational financing project into law, which, if approved, will be subject to a new presidential veto, which would be the second in a row after the Casa Rosada returned the retirement mobility law to the lower house.
Freedom Advances no longer controls the legislative agenda and this political nakedness could even expose the President to a historic event in the Senate: the first rejection by both Chambers of a DNU presidential, in that case the decree that granted him 100 billion pesos of reserved expenses to the SIDEThis measure even put into crisis the relationship with Mauricio Macri’s PRO, the main ally of the ruling party, whose legislators voted against the DNU.
Senate Agenda
But in addition to eliminating the DNU of reserved expenses of the SIDE, the UCR and Union for the Homeland They also hope to include in the agenda of the session, which could be convened tomorrow, the law on educational financing, which provides for a bi-monthly update of the operating expenses of universities.
Last night there was a working meeting with the block leaders in the office of Victoria Villarruel. There was no agreement and they will meet again today. The government wants to organize a session to deal only with the single paper ballot but the opposition insists on another agenda and has enough votes to include the issue in the agenda of the session. educational financing law and the rejection of the DNU of reserved funds for the SIDE.
Yesterday, Peronism warned that “the minimum budget for universities to be able to operate while guaranteeing teachers’ salaries is being debated, 80% of teachers are below the poverty line.”
From LLA, the block leader Ezequiel Atauche admitted that “it is an issue that concerns us and from the Government we have raised 70% of the budget that has not been raised since 2022 and was not claimed before. We must take care of the pockets of Argentine taxpayers.” And he warned that “the fiscal impact of this measure, according to the Congressional Budget Officeis around 800 million dollars and the Ministry of Human Capital reported that it is around 1.1 billion.”
Message to Javier Milei
The radical Martin Lousteau aimed directly at Javier Milei: “It strikes me that it is said that this government is particularly concerned about education when the Education Commission was just formed last week, the FONID was not extended and there was a large university march.” “The president talks about education as indoctrination and even today they have not finished meeting the financing expenses, the rectors tell us this.” “If he was concerned about education, they would not have wasted two months due to the loss of teachers’ salaries. This concern for education is not appreciated,” he added.
Last night Villarruel The vice president managed to delay the call for a session despite the demands of the opposition that intended to come down to the premises today. The vice president maintains an unstable relationship with the Casa Rosada and tries to be the face of a new defeat of the national government in the Senate. In Deputies, the panorama is not the best either for Freedom AdvancesGuillermo Francos will present his management report and will have to answer more than 2,000 questions posed by the opposition blocs.
Meanwhile, the LLA coordination table with the PRO and the MID by Oscar Zago because of distrust crusade between Martin Menem and Mauricio Macri which aims to displace the current president of the House of Representatives to replace him with Christian Ritondo.
Source: Ambito
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