This week starts in Senate of the Nation he debate in the committees of the Omnibus law and the tax reform and still no one has the necessary votes. Neither the ruling party to approve them nor the opposition to reject them.
The first accounts, the famous “poreing” that is done in the main offices of the Upper House, show that if the block of Union for the Homeland It does not have any leaks or absences, it has 33 votes, while Freedom Advances adds 30 wishes. There are 9 votes in a “limbo” which are the ones that will end up defining the fate of both projects.
Three of these votes correspond to the block of Federal Unit formed by Carlos Espínola (Corrientes), Edgardo Kueider (Entre Ríos) and Alejandra Vigo (Córdoba). Except for the latter, the other two senators do not respond politically to the governors of their provinces. So much so that both have a Kirchnerist past.
Although they usually remain silent so as not to advance their vote, and remain in a better position to negotiate, the Entre Ríos native advanced part of his positions today.
In conversation on radio Profile, Kueider announced that he does not agree with several points of the regulations. “Our Federal Unit bloc is going to have a meeting in the next few hours, we are going to talk about this issue, what position in general we take. In particular, each one has some ideas regarding some issues, but in reality we have not yet defined as a bloc or how we are going to work on this law.”
“There are different interests. For example, Vigo has a governor from its political space who of course is part of other interests and other needs and who has surely participated in other negotiations with the Executive Branch. This is not the case with me or Senator Espínola, as we do not have a governor. similar to whom to respond from a political point of view,” he explained. “What we all have is a strong sense of defending the interests of our provinces, that is the most important thing,” he added.
But Kueider advanced something regarding what he plans to do and said that without debate there is no support.“The first question I am going to ask you at the beginning of the commission is what the ruling party intends. If the ruling party intends to issue a closed-book law, or if there will be an open debate and modifications will be discussed. Actually, we We have the right to discuss all the modifications we want, “But let’s see what the intention of the ruling party is when it comes to dealing with these issues.”
Regarding the rules, the senator said that he has “many points to object, to modify and eventually to vote or not to vote pointing out the differences at the time of the particular treatment. “I am not going to vote with a closed book on a law of which I do not share several of the points and I want to discuss them.”
The points to which the man from Entre Ríos refers are many, but he referred to the fact that he is not convinced regarding “the delegation of powers, the income tax, the labor reform”, and that on these issues he said that they were going to work from the bloc to “propose changes or directly vote or not vote.” In any case, he acknowledged that in his personal case those items “make noise” to him.
Regarding the governors and their imprint, Kueider said that the Government “has worked very well in the sense of squeezing and suffocating the provinces as much as possible and then sitting them at a table and saying, well, now that you are desperate, if you want resources vote me the law. That’s the logic. And that is what is happening and well, hence the negotiation of the governors who have agreed to vote on the law.”
