“Let them make the changes that are necessary, but let them vote on the project and it be defined in (the Chamber of) Deputies.” In the Casa Rosada they do not want surprises and look for limit Cristina Kirchner’s damaging power in the framework of the debate in the Senate. For this reason, prior to the second day of debate in the plenary session of committees, a close collaborator of President Javier Milei lowered that order to the La Libertad Avanza blockwhose final recipients are the heads of the dialogue groups, where discrepancies were heard on different points of the Base Law and the tax reform despite the fact that the position of generally accompanying the initiatives is maintained.
In the Governmentor they maintain that it is not a reversal and they de-dramatize the idea that the law, if it is indeed modified, should return to the Lower House, because they understand that in the event that there are changes that affect the essence of the project, You may assert the number you obtained in the half-sanction and insist on the original text.
“It is not the spirit of senators or governors to change anything. We will wait for your proposals and we trust that they will be superior.“explained a senior official familiar with the conversations.
The passage through the Senate of the Minister of the Interior, Guillermo Francos, and the Deputy Chief of Staff, José Rolandi, this Tuesday decompressed tensions. From both sides. That is why the Government took the initiative to clarify that they were open to changes.
The key points under discussion
In what aspects is the Government willing to give in on the two projects?asked Clarion in the first lines of the Cabinet, a key question if one takes into account that the criticism from the dialogue opposition was diverse and broad: from Profits and the Incentive Regime for Large Investments (RIGI)two of the most discussed points, until the pension moratorium and privatizations.
In the Government they prefer not to open the game, waiting for the senators who promote changes to achieve consensus. The Patagonian governors instructed their senators to try to modify the restitution of the Income Tax: They want the region to be considered an unfavorable area.
The only thing on which there seems to be a large majority is the inconvenience that Deputies have included the tobacco chapter at the last minute: is that, with the exception of the Radical Civic Union, the rest of the blocks opposed the debate over the medium sanction.
The big question, after the scandal in which the senators were involved due to the increase in their diets, is who will dare to lead the crusade that eventually benefits the “Lord of Tobacco”, Pablo Otero, owner of Tabacalera Sarandí.
“The ideal would be for (the project) to be voted on as it came from the Deputies, but it is very difficult and there is no point in tensing and not having it come out.”summarizes before Clarion an official who deals daily with the President who, as an alternative proposal, offered senators to present projects outside of this debate, something that at least for the moment does not convince the opposition. In any case, the negotiations reveal the Government’s conviction to take safe steps.
The strategy seems to be giving good results: in the last few hours the senator for Tierra del Fuego Pablo Blancoof the Radical Civic Union, committed his vote in favor of the law in general although he warned that he will propose changes in particular. Was one of those who was in doubt.
With your vote, the Government is enthusiastic about exceeding the 37 necessary to open the session and approve the law. The 39 that Vice President Victoria Villarruel obtained to appoint House authorities and isolate the Ks still loom distant.
Nor does the proximity to the May Pact that the President proposed at the opening of ordinary sessions represent a complication for the Government: except for a black swan, in the ruling party they discount that the majority of governors will attend and that, with the law virtually approved, a path of dialogue can begin around the ten points of the agreement that Milei listed. “Many governors are showing good predisposition,” they acknowledge. And they mark as an example the public support given by the Peronists Raúl Jalil (Catamarca) and Osvaldo Jaldo (Tucumán) and the movements (for now underground) of others so that their senators support them with their vote.
On the contrary, they understand that, whatever the fate of the Base Law, the people of Buenos Aires Axel Kicillofthe pampas Sergio Ziliottothe Fuegian Gustavo Melellathe Formoseño Gildo Insfran and the Riojan Ricardo Quintela They will not be from the game. “They are part of the ghost train,” they resign themselves.
