“All ready”. That definition came this Friday early in the morning from the office of the president of the Senate, Victoria Villarruel. The vice wants the Base Law It leaves before May 25 and for that this Tuesday it called the plenary session of commissions in which different Government officials will participate.
On Tuesday at 2 p.m., the Minister of the Interior, Guillermo Francos; the deputy chief of staff, José Rolandi; the Secretary of Energy, Eduardo Rodríguez Chirillo; the Secretary of the Treasury, Carlos Guberman; and the Secretary of Strategic Regulatory Planning, María Ibarzabal Murphy, will be present in the Arturo Illia Hall of the High camera to present in the plenary session of the General Legislation, Budget and Finance and Constitutional Affairs commissions the particularities of the project before the senators.
The next day the meetings will continue, with the presence again of Rodríguez Chirillo and the Secretary of Labor, Julio Cordero. It will be at 10, in the plenary session of the same commissions that will debate the Bases law. In the afternoon, at 2:30 p.m., the treatment of the fiscal package will begin, in a meeting of the Budget commission, where Guberman will present again.
The next day, Thursday the 9th, new committee meetings are called, although without speakers. There, the ruling party will try to obtain the opinions that enable it to discuss the issue the following week on the premises. Some, cautious, believe that there are still many conversations to take place.
In parallel, the Government continues negotiations with the governors so that there are no modifications to the half-sanction that this Thursday had to do with the High camera. For this, the support of the two senators of the governor of Santa Cruz Claudio Vidal will be key. The governments of Río Negro, Misiones Neuquén and Córdoba, which also have their senators, have already supported them in the Chamber of Deputies.
So things are, Freedom Advances It arrives in a better parliamentary scenario to discuss this issue in the Senate. The negotiations carried out by Casa Rosada officials Francos, Nicolás Posse and Santiago Caputo cleared the stage so that there were no major complications in the Senate.
The double Peronist challenge against the Omnibus Law
However, the risk is always there. The Peronist interbloc in the Senate has 33 seats and many interests. Some of them crossed between the political representation that was indicated to them with the vote and the provincial needs of governments that fear a new step of the chainsaw.
On Thursday afternoon there was a meeting in which the majority participated. From there came the agreement to maintain the rejection of the Law of Bases and Starting Points for the Freedom of Argentines. However, it is an open secret in the Legislative Palace that “if some have to stand up and not vote against or go and vote in favor, they will do it.”
Within the block are those who understand that some may not obstruct the sanction of the law. “They won with the vote of their provinces, and today there they have different needs than what we can have from Congress,” a Peronist senator was sincere in dialogue with MDZ.
There are also the most Taliban who play the internal role of their province, like Juan Manzur with Osvaldo Jaldo. The governor of Tucuman was able to put together a bloc in the lower house with three deputies who respond directly to him. He did it even if it meant breaking up Unión por la Patria.
In the Senate the scenario is different. The Peronist legislators in the upper house are Juan Manzur and Sandra Mendoza, who belong to the Justicialist branch opposed to Jaldismo.
In this scenario, Peronism will fight two battles, one with more chances of winning than the other: that of trying to sabotage the Bases Law as Germán Martínez’s bloc did in the Deputies and that of staying as united as possible. If that does not happen, the division does not imply a break.
This fragmentation does not only happen to Peronism. Martín Losuteau paid a very high price within the Radical Civic Union (UCR) when he voted against DNU 70/23 along with Pablo Blanco. As president he was weakened. It is still unknown what he will do.
In Deputies, the radicals who respond to their space voted in favor of some articles and against others. But all in favor in the particular vote.
On April 8, Lousteau left a definition that an easy reading allows to interpret a rejection. “Due to his hatred and personal anger against the State, Javier Milei is capable of abandoning retirees, families, teachers, students, basically all Argentines. The rates are multiplying; the prepaid ones are going downhill. clouds,” he pointed to X and shared . “Should the delegated powers and faculties be voted on for him, who claims to preside over ‘a criminal organization’?”
