Congress: between sessions without a quorum, allies ask for extraordinary sessions to approve the Budget

Congress: between sessions without a quorum, allies ask for extraordinary sessions to approve the Budget

One week after his act of rebellionwhich consisted of hold a list of four demands (which ultimately ask for the distribution with objective criteria of contributions that the provinces themselves make to the Nation), the governors backed down and are willing to approve the budget project as presented by Milei in September, although they will try to make changes to it as they go. This was confirmed by the owners of the blocks of the UCR and the PRO. What happened in the middle? Given the provincial rudeness, Casa Rosada withdrew the Budget debate and explained that his plan is not to give up any of his economic guidelines.

“The Government has a whip or no whip strategy to negotiate”graphed a deputy radical“He hits you or he doesn’t hit you, but you never get hit. So, what do you choose?” From the PRO They also metaphorize: “The Government found the hole in the mate and they put you in this position: ‘If you touch the fiscal deficit, inflation will return.'”

PRO Deputies

The PRO returns to the fray in Deputies with the Clean Record project.

Mariano Fuchila

That debate is what the governors of the extinct Together for Change from the discursive point of view – because in economic terms, the provincial demands are closer 0.3% of GDPI-, in the last document they published: “Fiscal balance is non-negotiable, as is compliance with the law”. Beyond the proven detachment from the institutionality of Pink Houseit is the same leaders who sign a coalition that negotiate individually with the Nation.

The first reaction came with sarcasm. “Very nice, but they continue to give arguments for not including it,” they pointed out to Ámbito from those around Santiago Caputo.who met with Karina Milei, Guillermo Francos, José Rolandi and Carlos Guberman to evaluate the inclusion of the project in extraordinary ones, which implies an extended period of the legislative calendar where the agenda of the Executive Branch can be dealt with exclusively.

As a new sign of good will, governors urged the deputies who respond to them to bring down the session where it was intended to repeal the DNU 846/2024 that enables the free debt swap –even also for the provincial administrations -: within Peronism, to Tucuman was added Catamarca; the provincialists of Salta, Río Negro, Neuquén and Misiones They responded again; Everyone intervened in radicalism (Santa Fe, Corrientes, Jujuy, Chaco and Mendoza); and there was also contribution from Cordova in the absences of Federation Meetingl. They have one letter left to threaten this week: treat a Budget ruling on a table and try to reach two-thirds.

Martín Menem Emilio Monzó Dialoguists Dialogue

Emilio Monzó (Federal Meeting) greets Martín Menem, head of the Chamber of Deputies.

Emilio Monzó (Federal Meeting) greets Martín Menem, head of the Chamber of Deputies.

Mariano Fuchila

“It would be bizarre for them to call extraordinary elections without a Budget,” they say from Union for the Homelandwhere They assure that mistakes will be tolerated -but remembered in the assembly of 2025 lists-. The view of Peronism, which closed a year without being able to install its own agenda but consolidated as clearer opposition alternative to the leftalready admits the possibility of an extension of the parliamentary year, in which the Executive has other priorities outside of financial allocations: the privatization of Aerolíneas Argentinas, the elimination of PASO and the appointment of two judges of the Supreme Court of Justice.

Gambling addiction and Clean Record: the agenda of Deputies

The broad consensus that the opposition project had that seeks to limit both online gambling site advertising as the volume of bets, With 90 signatures out of 148 in a plenary session where five commissions converged, it does not promise to end the streak of sessions without a quorum. “I hope there is a session and that it goes well,” Maximiliano Ferraro simply said.author of the initiative that could be voted on this Wednesday, although his statement reveals the uncertainty shared by the different groups that support the project: Union for the Homeland, the Left Front, Federal Meeting and radicalism.

Inside the PRO, The writing group of the minority opinion planned to unify a strategy on Tuesday night: if the quorum is guaranteed without them, they could enable freedom of action to be absent or intervene in the session with their position. There is a uniform rejection of the project, which they consider prohibitive. “I am philosophically opposed to the project because it is the State getting involved in regulating the lives of adults, as if it could determine what they do with salt or cigarettes”said a yellow deputy. It is worth wondering what the bloc’s position would be for other illegalized consumption.

Union for the Homeland Deputies

Unión por la Patria could not obtain a quorum in its last call in Deputies.

Unión por la Patria could not obtain a quorum in its last call in Deputies.

Mariano Fuchila

From the PRO they have forms where they count one by one the support for Thursday’s session, where they promote the project Clean sheet, along with the vote of Argentines abroad, trial in absentia and recidivism and reiteration reforms. The position of the provincialists is what will define the possibility of holding a session. “The coin is in the air”they maintain from the bullrichista wing, although the scenario seems to be optimistic considering that last week their call was dropped due to a single presence and several deputies with unforeseen health problems have already recovered in recent days. Even so, the quorum depends on the parallel negotiations and the Budget on the will of Casa Rosada.

Source: Ambito

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