Triumph of the Government in Congress: with last-minute negotiations, it brought down the session that sought to reform the DNU law

The opposition anticipated a favorable account for the sum of at least four blocks: Federal Meeting, Left Front, Union for the Homeland and Democracy forever (dissident radicals). With full presence, they reached 132 votes (four more than the quorum) and had numbers for the half sanction. However, between Peronists and radicals added a dozen casualties and, given that warning, his colleagues on the bench requested a new session for next week to avoid exposing those absent.

The victory of the ruling party was not only important for its demonstration of political capacity by making opposition legislators change their positions, but also because it prevented the groups from being able to reform a law that directly impacted the Government’s modality of action: Javier Milei executed DNUs in sensitive areas (debt exchange, retirements, rents, privatizations) and wanted to avoid having to resort to the veto again. The project that was going to be voted on proposed that 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.

The date of call of the November 21 session is not a coincidence: The 20th is the last day for the commission’s opinions to be submitted to the chamber for voting and the opposition anticipates that the ruling party will be able to reach a consensus on the draft of the Budget 2025for that date, so those absent on this day will not repeat the absence next week in case the two agendas converge. There they estimate they will have a better result.

Simultaneously, on Wednesday, November 20, and at the initiative of the PROtwo electoral reform projects will be debated: Clean Sheet and the modality of the vote of Argentines abroad. In addition, modification of the Penal Code regarding crime was included in the agenda. Recidivism, Reiteration and Unification of Sentencesand could include at the last minute the reform of the tax evasion law.

Why did the session crash?

“The Government took out its wallet“, was the synthesis of a radicalism advisor linked to the majority bloc. As Ámbito pointed out, Pink House developed a patient plan that is taking shape and could be finalized next week: he enabled debates in the Budget Committee that served to attract attention (with figures like Bullrich and Scioli) but not to discuss modifications to the budget items, while he sealed agreements in parallel meetings with governors and the legislative dialogue table with Cristian Ritondo.

The celebratory atmosphere of Freedom Advances It was a common point for all the deputies, who remained in the room hours after the session ended. “They did not want to show their face and abandoned“he boasted Gabriel Bornoroni, president of the block. To the determination of items for the provinces, the ruling party adds to the negotiation table its electoral capital for potential alliances in the districts in 2025. With these elements he definitively twisted the UCR, which announced this Tuesday that it was complying with its strategy.

Within Union for the Homelandthe fall of the session was experienced with greater resignation than a feeling of defeat. Throughout the year, and faced with the repeated impossibility of imposing its own agenda, the unity of the bloc consolidated after the departure of three members of the Independence bloc was rescued. However, and even though They preserved the identity of the deputies who were absentthe lack of quorum weakened their negotiating position even with the other benches. “This once again puts the eye on Cristina, as the only opponent who does not give in. Voters are going to want everyone else to go to hell,” said a member referred to as the Frente Renovador.