Javier Milei polishes the agenda to call extraordinary sessions of Congress. The 2025 Budget would be left out. Luis Juez in the line of succession?
“Don’t go abroad.” The message that was replicated in the Whatsapp group of national deputies of La Libertad Avanza anticipates an eventual call by Javier Milei to extraordinary sessions in Congress. Martín Menem will be ratified as president of the Chamber of Deputies in the preparatory session this Wednesday while doubts grow about the continuity of Bartolomé Abdala as provisional president of the Senate.
The elimination of the PASO would be the highlight of the menu of the extraordinary sessions in Congress starting on rejection of Mauricio Macri’s PROmain legislative ally of La Libertad Avanza. The 2025 Budget, in the absence of agreement with the governors, would remain outside the agenda defined by the National Executive Branch by decree. The negotiation would be one on one with each provincial leader. A la carte and with discretionary management of the items by the National Executive Branch. What is known as whip and checkbook.
Javier Milei defines sessions
“This week the government team will meet to define whether there is a call and the agenda for the sessions,” was the response of a Casa Rosada official to the query of Scope on the eventual call for extraordinary meetings. Today there will be a conclave between Manuel Adorni and Santiago Caputo, and tomorrow the small table will meet on the issue. From the Chamber of Deputies they also left open the possibility of an imminent call that, in addition to the elimination of the PASO, would include the repetition project promoted by Patricia Bullrichand the absentee trial project.
In the preparatory session in Deputies, Martín Menem will be confirmed in his position while a dispute opens between the PRO and the UCR for the vice presidencies. Julio Cobos occupies the second vice position representing radicalism but the bloc led by Rodrigo de Loredo from Cordoba fractured before the formation of Democracia Para Siempre, a platoon of 12 radicals who respond to Facundo Manes and Martín Lousteau. Thus, the original bloc of the UCR was left with only 20 national deputies compared to the 37 of the PRO. In this scenario, the Macrista bench Cristian Ritondo does not rule out claiming that seat to castle for the third vice position that today falls to Silvia Lospennato.
Tension with Victoria Villarruel
With a principle of agreement on the authorities of the Chamber of Deputies, the tension moves to the Senate which in February should ratify Bartolome Abdala as provisional president. In the midst of a war with the provinces over Budget 2025 funds, José Mayans revealed that several legislators raised the possibility of removing Abdala from his position.
The legislator of Freedom Advances for San Luis he is a soldier of Victoria Villarruel and he also comes from confessing on prime time television that he uses his employees from the Upper House to campaign in his province. Bartolomé Abdala thus adds merits for an eventual removal that would have the approval of Casa Rosada where his eventual replacement is even already mentioned: the head of the PRO block, Luis Jueza leader who has direct dialogue with Javier Milei and with whom he built a relationship of affection and personal appreciation beyond politics. The ruling party would also add a weighty reference in this position located in the line of succession to power. Cordovathe mother district of Milei’s presidential triumph in 2023.
The crossed distrust between the President and his vice was fired by Milei’s statements where he affirms that his running mate has no interference in the decision-making scheme and that she is outside of cabinet meetings. So much so that Guillermo Francos During his visit last week to the Senate he carried the message of closing the facility until further notice due to concern that the opposition would move forward with the rejection of the DNU debt swap. That is why the Casa Rosada seeks to put a senator of the President’s utmost confidence in front of an eventual replacement for Abdala, taking into account that the provisional presidency of the Senate is in the line of succession with constitutional rank.
Source: Ambito
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