The discussion over budget items for public works, transportation and provincial pension funds gives the Casa Rosada the perfect setting to negotiate in Congress.
The landing of Javier Milei in it Congress next Sunday to present the Budget 2025 operates as a black hole that absorbs all legislative debates, from the veto on retirement mobility to educational financing and the DNU of reserved funds for the SIDE. This law of laws, where the budget items that will go to the provinces are also defined, gives the Casa Rosada the perfect framework to defuse rebellions and influence the parliamentary agenda of the last four months of the year.
The President will speak on Sunday at 9 pm in the Chamber of Deputies with a special recognition to the 87 “heroes” who supported the veto of the 8.1% increase in pensioners’ salaries. Fiscal balance, no matter who pays for it, will be the guiding principle of the presidential speech to which all deputies and senators will be invited, regardless of whether they are members of the Budget and Finance Committee. Encuentro Federal, led by Miguel Pichetto, has already announced that it will not be present. The Casa Rosada is closing in on its core group of allies, Cristian Ritondo’s PRO and Oscar Zago’s MID.
Congress: veto is protected
With this limited map of allies in the House of Representatives, added to the libertarian radicals, the Peronist Mileista Osvaldo Jaldo and provincial governors who negotiate agreements on demand, The ruling party only needs a third of the votes in the House. The magic number to deactivate any attempt at rebellion in Congress against the President’s vetoes. This logic is inscribed in the Senate’s authorization of the treatment today of the educational financing project with an opposition majority, now in doubt to be converted into law. Its destiny is a new presidential veto, with a floor, for now, of 87 deputies aligned with the Casa Rosada to shield these measures.
In addition to the head of the Buenos Aires government and the PRO governors, Jorge Macri (CABA), Rogelio Frigerio (Entre Ríos) and Ignacio Torres (Chubut), Javier Milei added in the last session the support of the deputies of the Tucuman Jaldo and the abstention of Federal Innovation that reports to the leaders Hugo Passalacqua (Misiones), Gustavo Saenz (Salta), Rolando Figueroa (Neuquén) and Alberto Weretilneck (Río Negro). They are joined by Sanjuanino Marcelo Orrego and Puntano Claudio Poggi, who orbit the residual league of Together for Change. In the UCR, with the exception of Maximiliano Pullaro (Santa Fe), Alfredo Cornejo (Mendoza), Gustavo Valdés (Corrientes) and Leandro Zdero (Chaco), these governors also make up the platoon of dialoguers with the Government, as does the Peronist from Córdoba, Martín Llaryora.
To pass university funding into law today in the Senate, 37 votes will be needed. Union for the Homeland has three casualties and will contribute 30. The Peronist from Cordoba Alejandra Vigo, wife of Juan Schiaretti announced that he will vote in favor. The radical Martin Lousteau also. Everything will then depend on the UCR block of Eduardo Vischi who yesterday sat next to Javier Milei and Victoria Villarruel along with other allies of the Casa Rosada such as Luis Juez, Edgardo Kueider and Juan Carlos Romero.
Budget Claims
This Tuesday, Governors from all over the country released a document critical of the Government of Javier Milei and protested against the cuts in funds, pension funds and the removal of transport subsidies, while they took a position on the Budget bill 2025.
There they request “the fulfillment of current transfers and the debts corresponding to the non-transferred funds, and the distribution of the Transport Compensation Fund that is financed specifically through the Fuel Tax and that, however, has been interrupted.”
In this context, they took advantage of the opportunity to take a stand in the face of the Budget debate and sent a message to the Casa Rosada. “The Argentine provinces advocate for a more equitable distribution between the Nation and the provinces of the shared resources and will seek the appropriate instruments to be able to face their responsibilities, as established by the National Constitution, with the corresponding resources,” they said. In the same vein, the governors from all over the country requested “compliance with respect to the financing and/or execution of public works in provincial territories,” they added.
Source: Ambito
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