The resignation of the now former Chancellor Diana Mondino hours ago stopped a promoted and semi-cryptic press conference that the ruling party was willing to hold, in Deputies, related to the 2025 Budget. Faced with the accumulation of complaints from dialogue opponents, the Government prepared a “chainsaw menu”: dozens of measures – some speak of 100 – that cut spending so that the parties can choose between the “best” and, with this, compensate for requests on retirements, public works and universitiesamong other issues.
The imminent offer, while the treatment of the spending law is expected to advance in the Budget and Finance Committee of the lower house, comes after weeks of parallel summits between the Casa Rosada, the Ministry of Economy, the libertarian delegates in the Congress and the dialogue opposition to analyze the project, whose The main objective of “zero deficit” is the threshold that the Executive set for it to advance or not at the legislative level.. It is what the market expects.
The last meetings took place this Wednesday in the Senate, with the Radical Civic Union (UCR) and the United Provinces interblock, led by the dissident Peronist Carlos Espinola (Currents). As advanced Infobae Weeks ago, the Executive delegated the negotiations to the deputy chief of staff and marathoner of legislative offices, José Rolandi. Next to him he is usually the Secretary of the Treasury of the Economy, Carlos Guberman.
For his part, in Deputies there is the libertarian president of the Budget and Finance commission, José Luis Espert (Buenos Aires). Meanwhile, the provisional owner, the Puntano accountant, is active in the Senate. Bartolome Abdalawith a wink from the head of the ruling bloc and Espert’s peer in the Upper House, Ezequiel Atauche (Jujuy).
This medium counted 10 days ago, along with the known zero deficit of the ruling party, the key condition of the dialogue opposition: the “corset” so that the Casa Rosada cannot take advantage of multimillion-dollar differences between what is approved in a possible law and what, potentially, is released for the Executive to redirect at will.
“We are going to imagine that the power of the Executive is limited if there is excess money in the 2025 Budget. If we become very purist with this issue, we give him the advantage so that he can lower more taxes and keep all the profit for the President. The last few moves to insist on the vetoes already went wrong. “We have to think carefully about the next moves,” said a top dialogue legislator in the middle of this month.
After several invitations that included cordial – but repetitive – tug-of-war between the ruling party and the opposition, the Government is preparing to show its card. The message is simple: all guidelines will be allowed to be redirected and, in parallel, the zero deficit will have to be maintained with swords to mountains of silver that, currently, are destined for other areas. In short, make them partners in a potential adjustment to put rogue groups in a trap that is difficult to digest. In particular, for legislators with grandiloquent speeches when they are opposition and with apparent problems in speaking in official mode.
The 2025 Budget has a main directive: La Libertad Avanza will not rush an opinion in the Deputies until there is a formal deal – with a potential number that endorses the consensus – in the Senate. The trip of legislators to the presidential elections in the United States will delay the vote in the Lower House. Therefore, The deadlines designed to rule, hold sessions and send the project to the Upper House will be extended, which would receive said initiative at the end of November or even December, in an extension of ordinary or extraordinary periods, that is, with an open agenda or defined by the Executive, respectively..