The Government decided not to call legislators to meet in December. What were your initial intentions and what happened next.
Exactly a week passed between the Government announcing the call for extraordinary sessions and canceling them. In the meantime, the call was never made official and the possibility of legislators sitting down to discuss the issues proposed by the Executive was diluted.
In Casa Rosada they argued before the consultation of Scope that “the necessary consensus was not achieved” to debate the initiatives. The issues chosen by the ruling party were not of interest to the opposition, and vice versa. In fact, The electoral reform (which includes the elimination of PASO) is probably the only issue to which the Government assigned priority, and at the same time the one that hindered the negotiations the most.
Consulted by this means, the presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni He ruled out that the announcement in which he confirmed that the Government would convene between December 5 and 27 would bring him friction with his cabinet colleagues. “It was the decision that had been made, it was not just that I had published, but that a project was going to be added”he defended himself.
Along the same lines, he pointed to the lack of agreements as the main reason for canceling the call. “This will be sent as long as there is consensus so that the legislative work makes sense and the projects come to fruition, and there is still no definition of whether that will be achieved,” he said.
From the official announcement to the corridors of Casa Rosada: why the Government backed down with extraordinary measures
The doubt that arises is whether at the time of announcing the legislative work for December the Government actually had the required agreements. Scope He also asked the official this at his usual press conference, to which he responded: “They were the projects that the Government intended to be approved, the consensus was being discussed and we understood that they were going to be achieved, we still do not rule out that it will be achieved.”
Despite the official response, as this media was able to reconstruct, the Executive did not contact opposition legislators to negotiate its package of laws. Sources with an office at Balcarce 50 acknowledged that “there was never an understanding with the PRO or with radicalism over the agenda,” but that the idea of anticipating the call was to set the agenda and “show that the Executive is ready to meet.”
However, not everyone in the national cabinet shared this position, which was the one that finally prevailed. Second-line officials who do not respond to the Communication and Media area consider that the announcement “was hasty and exposed the Government.”
Legislative representatives of the opposition considered in response to a query from this medium that “the Government’s move went wrong.” They also added that the scandal with Senator Edgardo Kueider could tarnish the Executive if the sessions were extended.
Source: Ambito
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