Pension reform: Cristian Ritondo reaffirmed the PRO’s support for the Government and predicted that the opposition will not reach a special majority

The legislator made these statements to the press in Pink House upon leaving the meeting organized by the president Javier Milei to get political support for the veto, which will be signed tonight.

“We will support, The President of our party, Mauricio Macri, already announced it, So we ratify what was already expressed by our President, because we understand that there is a deviation and that has to do with the fiscal deficit”he said after the meeting attended by 19 legislators, including members of Freedom Advances and the PRO.

After being asked by accredited press if the opposition would be able to reach the special two-thirds majority needed to override the presidential veto, Ritondo responded: “Let’s hope not, with the support that three parties are giving them. Yes, we believe that with our presence they will not reach two thirds.”

At the meeting were 16 deputies present: Gabriel Bornoroni, Nadia Marquez, Jose Peluc, Pablo Ansaloni, Nicolas Mayoraz, Jose Luis Espert, Lisandro Almiron, Cesar Treffinger and Bertie Benegas Lynch for Freedom Advances; Oscar Zago, from the MID; and Cristian Ritondo, Maria Eugenia Vidal, Luciano Laspina, Silvana Giudici, Diego Santilli and Alejandro Bongiovanni, from the PRO. There was also representation from libertarian senators: Bartolome Abdala, Vilma Bedia and Ezequiel Atauche.

The most notable absence was that of Martín Menemdue to differences with the parliamentary strategy of Mauricio MacriSantiago Caputo was not there either, although as representatives of the Executive they were present Karina Milei and Guillermo Francos, who will present the management report next Wednesday in Congress.

Deputies: the Government seeks to protect itself against the opposition majority

If the accompaniment of the blocks of Carolina Piparo and Lourdes Arrieta Together with other blocs that have never voted differently from the Government, the ruling party has 86 votes: considering the composition of 256 in the lower house, this figure would prevent the opposition from reaching the 172 votes that represent two thirds. However, Pink House observes his support network in both venues.

In the Senate 48 votes are needed; 33 from the Union for the Fatherland are guaranteed and eight from provincial blocks and another 13 from the radicalism could be added: PRO endorsements are not requiredwho in a show of autonomy voted against the Government but became entangled in the change of course taken by its partisan president, Mauricio Macriwho overacted his adherence to the presidential veto. The larretist Guadalupe Tagliaferri He said he would again support the pension reform.

In Deputiesthe The UCR – which drafted and promoted the approval of the retirement system in June – has not yet defined its unanimous support for the project but would contribute the majority of their 34 votes, to which are added the totality of Union for the Fatherland (99), Federal Encounter (16), Civic Coalition (6), Left Front (5) and For Santa Cruz (2). In an optimistic scenario, they have guaranteed 162 of the 172 votes to reach two thirds: the remaining could come from Federal Innovation (9) and They would need support from the PRO or from some legislator allied with the ruling party.Given the recent internal conflicts, this scenario does not seem impossible.