The Chamber of Deputies scheduled for this Monday at noon the debate of the new Law of Bases and Starting Points, or Omnibus Law. The treatment of the megaproject Javier Milei It takes place after an arduous negotiation with the dialogue blocks for several weeks, after the resounding failure of February. It occurs less than a month after the call to the Pact of May 25, for which the president promised funds to the governors to support him with this regulation. The debate could continue until Wednesday.
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Strike in Senasa for 72 hours: ATE confirmed high adherence in Río Negro and mobilization in Roca
This morning, the Senasa workers grouped in ATE will mobilize to the organization’s headquarters in Roca. “Compliance is 90% throughout the province,” said Romeo Aguiar, union secretary of ATE Río Negro. More information in the note.
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How the deputies of Neuquén and Río Negro voted
Some were fully supportive, others highlighted the need for changes, and there were major pushbacks. Now, the expectation revolves around what their positions will be. Review their positions in the note.
March to Route 22 against the Bases Law in Neuquén, this Monday
With the beginning of the treatment of the Bases Law in the lower house of Congress this Mondaythe Multisector of Neuquén called for a mobilization in the capital this afternoon will go to the former Route 22 that runs through the city (current Mosconi Avenue). Also, there will be protests during the morning at Government House. Besidescalled to march this Wednesday for Worker’s Day.
The Neuquén multisector defined that the main activity in claim to the treatment of the law will be from 5:00 p.m.. They will concentrate on the monument to march to ex-Ruta 22 and Avenida Olascoaga. There they will read a document and the day will end with public classes organized by university students and teachers.
During the tomorrow there will also be protests. At 10:30 social organizations will gather together with ceramic workers in Goverment house, where they will have a meeting “to be able to keep the workers’ negotiations going,” they indicated.
With an open radio they will denounce “the implications of the approval of the Base Law” and then at 11:30 they will hold a press conference.
Bases Law and a debate that could continue until Wednesday
The ruling party reached a majority consensus only last Wednesday after extensive rounds of negotiations that took place between the Casa Rosada and the National Congress. That unblocked the tug of war and allowed, last Thursday, the plenary session of commissions will be held in which they managed to capture in a majority opinion.
In this way, the project was ready to be dealt with. The session would extend to Tuesday and possibly also Wednesday morning.
Bases Law: how the votes come
La Libertad Avanza tried on repeated occasions to cover various reformist axes, but some topics promoted by certain blocs were rejected by others and vice versa. The final version did not satisfy anyone except for Freedom Advancesnaturally, and from the PRO.
Despite this, your vote in general is guaranteed with a floor of 135 votes in favor, according to parliamentary sources from the ruling party. They also stressed that it would be difficult for them to reach 150 votes, which would be the ceiling.
In the support platoon appear the 38 votes from La Libertad Avanzatwo from Buenos Aires Libre, three from the MID, three from Independencia, 37 PROto the at least 17 of the 22 from We Make the Federal Coalition, at least 29 of the 35 radicals, the eight from Federal Innovation and one from Creo.
The most diffuse and steep part will come later, in the vote in particular, since there are articles that hang by a thread and they could fall if the ruling party does not tighten the pins until the last moment. Despite denying politics, the strength of the Government must maneuver with cunning and skill until the end so that no vote slips away.
Bases Law: how it was formed
According to a deputy from the We Make Federal Coalition, the ruling party “learned.” He also highlighted the greater willingness to listen among officials such as the Deputy Chief of Staff, José Rolandi, the Secretary of the Treasury, Carlos Guberman, and the Secretary of Regulatory Strategic Planning, María Ibarzabal.
The ruling party had to sacrificing articles to be able to reach an opinion that was “signable” by the forces of the light opposition. For example, he deleted the article about economic deregulationremoved the entire chapter on Defense of Competition, reduced the emergency declarations to four and narrowed the list of companies subject to privatization to just eight (leaving out Banco Nación).
In addition, it expanded the list of State organizations safe from any attempt at dissolution and eliminated the chapter on consolidation of titles of the Anses Sustainability Guarantee Fund that enabled the sale of shares.
Despite compacting the project, there was still a mammoth of 240 articles and 162 pageswhich will be shredded on the premises during at least two days of debate starting Monday at noon.
Bases Law: concern about labor reform and Profits
A source of conflict that cannot be quelled has to do with the reform worksl, which was in suspense until the last moment but was finally reflected in the majority opinion in a compressed version. It was the Solomonic way of “cutting in the middle” between two antagonistic positions.
The UCR hammered home an ambitious labor reform, which even interfered with union interests by eliminating solidarity dues for non-members. At one point, when it emerged that the Government was granting the radical request, the head of the We Make Federal Coalition bloc, Miguel Pichetto, slammed his fist on the table, threatening not to vote on the Bases law unless it was completely abandoned. side the labor modernization chapter.
The man from Rio Negro is convinced that this issue does not pass in the Senate and does not want time to be wasted in Deputies. In the end, a compressed version of the reform was included, basically limited to the repeal of fines for non-registration, extension of the trial period and the implementation of the optional severance fund as an alternative to compensation.
However, the UCR and the Civic Coalition (the latter belongs to HCF but has its own game, to the point that it presented a minority opinion yesterday in the plenary session of commissions) will try to bring about changes and additions in the chamber regarding the reform labor and the tobacco tax (in this case in the tax law).
Furthermore, true to its tradition of not granting “superpowers” to any president, Elisa Carrió’s political force will not vote on the delegation of powers. There are also many doubts regarding what may happen with the reversal of the fourth category of Income Taxwhose non-taxable minimum the Government intends to set at 1,800,000 pesos for single workers and 2,200,000 pesos for married workers with children.
Radicalism is divided regarding this Government proposal and there could be a setback in this regard. As if that were not enough, there are deputies from the UCR and HCF who are not convinced of the “goodness” of the Large Investment Incentive Regime (RIGI) of the Bases law, and could vote against or propose changes in the premises to favor investments less than the 200 million dollars that the Executive Branch set as a floor to access the benefits.
The deputies of the “dialogue” spectrum are at a dilemmatic crossroads: They assure that they want to give Javier Milei the tools to govern and put aside excuses, but they are not satisfied with the final wording of some articles and they know that if they apply their veto power the president, an “all or nothing” fundamentalist ” could once again order the withdrawal of the project in full sessionraising the accusing finger against the entire opposition.
