Faced with the string of presidential decrees, Deputies seek to reform the DNU law

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Among the projects of the deputies, which promote the call for political scientists and jurists to make the reform more effective, the expansion of the Bicameral Legislative Procedure Commission (which reviews the DNU); that the Legislative Branch has a time limit to ratify the decrees and not to revoke them; and clarify the definition of need and urgencyamong different proposals that the multiple editorial offices have.

According to a report from the Faculty of Law of the Universidad Austral, Javier Milei is the fourth president with the highest number of DNUs in his first nine months in officebehind Eduardo Duhalde (78), Alberto Fernández (60) and Néstor Kirchner (51). Likewise, he was the first president to have both chambers of the National Congress repealed a DNU: 656/24, of funds reserved for the Intelligence Service.

“It is unacceptable that a decree has more value than a lawbecause we ask that there be two chambers to pass a law and with the signature of the Executive Branch we already have a law functioning with the same hierarchy,” said the deputy. Oscar Agost Carreño who observed that “if the President has the power of partial veto, how can it be that Congress does not have a similar power in mirror.” “Let’s get ahead of a possible ruling by the Court due to lack of resolution of the policy“he added Juan Manuel López.

Deputies debated DNU reform

During the meeting, the man from Córdoba Oscar Agost Carreño (Federal Meeting) highlighted the context in which the debate is inserted: “We have to be aware that the Bicameral of Legislative Procedure It is not working: we do not know if a blockage is being sought or there is another type of problem, but the truth is that there is a request from deputies to make it work and after ordering all the DNUs of previous presidents they still don’t meet“.

Furthermore, the deputy argued that “there is a willingness on the part of more blocks to do so and we have to be honest: Since the dictation of DNU 70/2023, a lot of discussions have been opened that they didn’t come up with this topic before.” “We are seeing that the articles that were dropped from the Bases law due to lack of consensus appear in the DNU“, he pointed out and concluded by warning that “we cannot institutionally allow from this Congress that the next president, whoever it may be, can repeal with a DNU all the previous DNUs or that he puts positive changes in crisis.”

During the meeting, the Buenos Aires woman Paula Penacca (Union for the Homeland) requested that the investigation be dealt with again by the six deputies who They visited repressors convicted of crimes against humanity during the last military dictatorshipan issue that was debated in the Petitions Committee, one of those that made up this Wednesday’s plenary session together with Constitutional Affairs. The Peronist exhibition was presented by the man from Santa Fe Diego Giuliano who stated that “Bicamerality is not an option, but rather it is a decision after the national organization has overcome all the difficulties.“, and in that historical contrast he pointed out that “there has been a very strong executive drive as a result of the issuance of DNUs that have meant an abuse of the system.”

“Surely the consensus we reach for this reform will restore balance to the republican system“said the man from Santa Fe Esteban Paulón (Federal Meeting)who understood that “when this is distorted we are dealing a lethal blow to legal security, which is so necessary for economic stability to translate into investments.” “The President will have to learn to dialogue and build a slightly broader consensus beyond the thirdto be able to approve their laws and not be tempted to govern only by DNU,” he commented.

Juan Manuel Lopez

Juan Manuel López, deputy of the Civic Coalition.

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In turn, the Buenos Aires native Pablo Juliano (UCR) pointed out that the DNU “I don’t think it is an instrument of governance“and indicated that “if the Executive Branch understands that there is a situation of need and urgency, this Parliament cannot look to the side because Without legality there is no possibility of facing any need or urgency.” “There is an exercise in ironing the Bicameral, and when Parliament looks to the side it abandons its transcendental function,” he recalled and expressed that “there is a Government that speaks in the name of freedom, but there will not be free people if we continue to govern.” by dint of decrees. And there will be less development”

DNUs by Javier Milei

Among the 39 DNUs issued by Javier Mileithe most controversial was 70/2023, presented on the national network ten days after taking office. Its content included the repeal of the rental lawthe release of prices medicationsmodifications to the regime credit cardsa labor reformtransformations to the land lawamong other changes that were later included in the debate of the Law Bases.

After this law was approved, the President decreed measures that he could not obtain through parliament, such as the free debt exchange wave privatization of Aerolíneas Argentinas. Previously, I had already established the retirement system by DNU.

There are two decrees that went through controversies. The first was 656/24, which granted $100,000 million of extra funds reserved for the Intelligence Servicewhich had been renovated weeks before. Another was the limitation on requests for access to public informationwhose main authority in the Executive Branch itself highlighted its disagreement and claimed not to have been consulted.