To avoid further defeats in Congress, Javier Milei calls on his allies

The delay in the -imminent- Javier Milei’s veto The pension reform does not imply a change of position, but rather the intention to obtain a grace period to return to approaching his allies in Congresswho explained to him throughout August that they have the key to unlock any project.

This Wednesday at noon the President met with Karina MileiEduardo and Martin Menem, Santiago Caputo and Guillermo Francos to reorient the legislative strategy of the ruling party, which was hit after circumstantial events opposition alliances and two expulsions of greater media resonance than concrete political weight. The conclusion was that the Chief of Staff should once again take first-hand charge of the negotiations in both Chambers, especially for to discourage and prevent the eventual vetoed pension reform from being resumed. His reunion with all the blocks will be public: at At 11 o’clock next Wednesday he will defend his administration in Congress.

With a parliamentary objective, Javier Milei He also held two meetings in one week with Mauricio Macriwhose snub of the PRO in the Senate during the vote on the pension reform seemed to have an effect on the Government. The President and Karina Milei have another meeting scheduled for this Friday: Cristian Ritondo, head of the PRO bloc in the House of Representatives, and Oscar Zago will go to Casa Rosada“There are no expectations with these people, but Cristian will go as he always did every time he was called up to see what he has to say to us,” sources close to him told Ámbito.

Alliances and distancing

While preparing to reinforce his identity at an event in Paraná, The PRO observes the scenario without pressure, knowing that management has the pressure of results.that his electoral battle is a long-term one and that all support for the Government constitutes help that implies a reward. His imminent Alliance with the MID in the House of Representatives will leave it as the second largest blockeven with the tensions expressed with the bullrichista wing. The initiative of Horacio Rodriguez Larretawho founded the party Development Movementdoes not imply a political cost since it has few legislative representatives, who for the moment will not express autonomy on sensitive issues.

The party is not interested in tempting Lourdes Arrietawho one day after building her unibloque expressed her willingness to “build for the country with the PRO.” “She had no other choice,” said a libertarian deputy when she found out that the Mendoza woman founded “Forces of Heaven – Liberal Space” (FE); “I will always remain faithful to Javier, until his ideas cross,” she added: loyalty to the President is the most valued asset in the official ideological mosaic. Another legislator who is emphasizing her growing disenchantment is Carolina Piparo. “Only the caste was going to suffer and it was not so.” said the former candidate for governor of Freedom Advances.

He The rest of the opposition is moving forward legislatively on projects that the Government does not disqualify (jury trial or the program to prevent teenage pregnancy), reacts to provocations (request for resignation to Mariano Cuneo Libaronawhich led activists who deny gender violence to shout their reactionary statements) and counts the votes in the event of a possible veto: all eyes are on the radical wing closest to the governmentwho drafted the pension reform but is reluctant to confront the Executive directly.

Victoria Villarruel: autonomy without break

The one that did not add internal damage this week is Victoria Villarruelwhich far from lowering its profile intensified its parallel agenda and, at times, even detrimental to Javier Mileiwhose moderation is reserved for specific issues. Days after the president, together with Patricia Bullrichagreed that the visit to those convicted for Crimes against humanity during the last dictatorship were not on their agendaThe Vice President held an event on Tuesday where she established parallels between the political violence of the 1970s and the attack on the AMIA.

Victoria Villarruel Senate

Victoria Villarruel at the event she led this week in the Senate.

Mariano Fuchila

At that event, he asked “reopening of all cases of victims of terrorism”, something that is not within the power of the Executive, and ended by asking that “All the Montoneros are in prison”a judicially uncertain situation given that his crimes – which so far are not crimes against humanity – have expired. In the Senatethe scope of the Patricia Bullrich and its political origins, but with a mistake: the current Minister of Security was part of the Peronist Youth, Although her first husband was a militant Montoneros and one of the leaders of the group, Rodolfo Galimbertiwas his brother-in-law.

Another moment of gloating Victoria Villarruel was reflected in his reaction to the expulsion of Francisco Paoltroni by the other six members of the libertarian senators’ bloc: the head of the Upper House pointed out the inappropriateness of the official document, exposing the ignorance of the procedures of her colleagues in the space. What was appropriate was to simply announce the new composition of the bench without the representative of Formosa, who inaugurated his unibloc called “Freedom, Work and Progress”the same name with which he competed in 2023 for the provincial government, his true objective.

Paoltroni went too far with his expressions of free thoughtwhich had already been exposed when he was removed at the last minute from the provisional president of the Senate. In the last ten days, he has contradicted the two Milei candidates for the Supreme Court of Justice and the allocation of the funds reserved for SIDE. His departure does not imply his linear antagonism with the Government or his adhesion to other parties, a practice that he has not yet been able to carry out even in his district. The modality of his expulsion from the block has already been used before: a Daniel Parisini’s (known as Gordo Dan) insult on social mediaone of the Twitter users with a direct line to Pink House.