The President will announce the details of the project that will mark the parliamentary agenda in the coming months. Debates on security and electoral reform continue.
The presentation of the project of the Budget 2025 This will allow the Government to regain the initiative that it had lost when the main opposition blocs joined forces to approve projects on sensitive issues: Increase in pensions and budgetary improvements for public universities. Pending the veto of this second law, the Congress will have the task of discussing the economic order that Javier Milei designed for Argentina next year.
The President waited until the deadline for submitting the mother of all laws to announce a national chain in time prime time: 9pm on a SundayThe ruling party, a specialist in narratives, designed a speech of just over an hour in which the details that it jealously guarded were revealed. However, Ámbito was able to confirm the emphasis on zero deficit: “If there is more revenue, these funds will be used to lower taxes. If there is less revenue, spending will be cut.”
The truth is that the government is preparing an event that expresses political strength, so They try until the last minute to fill the 257 seats in the venueThey hope to get half: all Peronists will be absent except for those who are part of the Budget Commission, the majority of the federal benches and a significant number of radicals. On the other hand, the almost total presence of PRO is expected. “There are several who are in their provinces and return on Sunday for the presentation of the President”confirmed to this media sources from the Senate, a chamber where many legislators justify their absence due to lack of invitation.
Following its presentation at the opening of the sessions in March, Javier Milei’s return to Congress comes at a time when he has been most involved in legislative affairs since the beginning of his political career. In the last two weeks he regained the alignment of the PROtemporarily restored – at least – the libertarian internalsealed an alliance with five radical deputies, incorporated into the block Carolina Piparo -which from the outside could represent a time bomb- and obtained last-minute support in the provinces to ratify the veto on pension increases.
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It will celebrate these agreements with a Barbecue for 87 parliamentarians at Quinta de Olivosa number that they will seek to reproduce if the opposition eventually tries to endorse the university financing law which the President announced he would veto. The triumphalist mood, however, makes explicit the need to recompose their legislative ties: Even by twisting the radical votes with promises of potential electoral support in the future, the Government scraped a third in the lower housewhere it has a more advantageous position than in the Senate. If the transfers from the Nation to the provinces do not materialize, this scenario may become even more fragile.
Budget, electoral reform and security: the legislative agenda for 2024
The presentation of the Budget will be followed by the parliamentary debate in committees, where Ministry of Economy officials will be summoned to give details. Peronism expressed its interest -which goes as far as anxiety- that Luis Caputo lead one of the plenary meetings, while they anticipate that they will request a balance between the expenses they consider essential (health, education, public works) with which the Government pre-announced for security. In the radicalism and federal blocks they find in the discussion of this project the opportunity for their technical staff from both chambers (Massot, Tetaz, Nieri, Lousteau) raise your profile.
In parallel with the budget debatethe Government emphasized its efforts on the two parliamentary objectives it is promoting this year: electoral reform and changes in security and justice. In the first case, the half sanction in the Senate of the regime of Single Paper Ballot represented an incentive in a session where it suffered two setbacks: university financing law and the historic repeal of a DNU. Along with this proposal, the debate will be added Clean Record which will be held in plenary session on Tuesday, which makes it impossible for defendants to run for election. Once again, Peronism will be isolated in its opposition to this initiative.
The other topic is a package of some Ten security reforms that the government has -together with its allies- pushes forward week after week without interruptions. There is general consensus on half of the projects. This list includes those that will be discussed in committees in the coming days: criminal classification for the commercialization of children (has half sanction) and regime of Trial in Absentia in the House of Representatives; and worsening of convictions for road accident perpetrators in the Senate.
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Congress agenda for the week
CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES
- Sunday, 9pm. Venue: presentation of the project Budget 2025.
- Tuesday, 11 am. Plenary session of the Constitutional Affairs and Justice Committees: electoral implementation of Clean Record.
- Tuesday, 3 p.m. Committee on Economics and Regional Development: Regime for the Promotion and Development of Regional Economies.
- Tuesday, 4 pm. Plenary session of the Petitions and Constitutional Affairs committees: evaluation of a Sanction for the group of six deputies from La Libertad Avanza who visited those convicted of crimes against humanity during the last dictatorship.
- Wednesday, 16:30 hours. Plenary session of the Criminal Legislation and Children and Youth commissions: classification in the Criminal Code on the abduction and commercialization of minors.
- Wednesday, 17:45 hours. Plenary session of the Criminal Legislation and Justice commissions: regime of Trial in Absentia.
SENATE
- Tuesday, 2 p.m., Justice and Criminal Affairs Committee: amendment of the Criminal Code on crimes related to road accidents.
Source: Ambito
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