The opposition achieved a pyrrhic victory in the Senate of the Nation and extended the debate of the Base Law and the tax package. Although Today they will have a plenary session of commissions again in the midst of the general strike, the UCR, Union for the Homeland and Federal Unity They advanced with the idea of cite specialists so that they go to the commission.
“The opposition blocs agreed on it,” A senior UP source said in relation to the fact that on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week the legislators will receive different specialists in the Senate. “We are finishing putting together and agreeing on the list,” she added. This Tuesday, the block Kirchnerist He had already announced that he was going to summon the authorities of the CGT, the two CTA and the ILOwho will be joined by specialists from the provinces.
With this change in the schedule, the block of La Libertad Avanza planned to rule today, Thursday and go to the venue next May 16. If they do not succeed, the other date on which they are thinking of bringing both laws to the premises is Thursday, May 23.
“If we had room to approve the regulations on the 23rd we would arrive at the Córdoba event with the laws, but We rule out that they have changes and that means that we are going to have to return to Deputies. We must gather a quorum and defend the changes again,” they explained.
The Senate is today the reviewing Chamber, so if modifications are introduced, the project returns to the original Chamber. In that session the rule must be voted on again and in the case of articles that are modified or eliminated, if you want to return to the original, You have to gather the same number of votes that the change had. That is, if in the Senate it was modified by two-thirds, if Deputies want to return to the original they need two-thirds. The same if it is a simple majority.
An option that the ruling party manages is that the changes fall on the fiscal package and not on the Bases Law, since the greatest interest of the Casa Rosada is the package within the omnibus standard and they understand that it is the provinces that are most interested in the tax modifications. If that happens, Javier Milei will have his event on May 25 with one of his two approved projects.
One of the discussions that took place yesterday was what senators and national officials were going to do about today. The day of national strike that the CGT and the two CTA are carrying out complicated the actions of the Legislative Palace since the union that brings together legislative workers folded. However, and with the support of the presidency of the Senate, Victoria Villarruel, which ensured the functioning of the house, the blocks agreed to continue the debate today.
Today the Budget and Finance Commission is scheduled to meet at 10 in the morning where the focus of the debate will be the fiscal package. Once this commission concludes, the plenary session will meet again to continue debating the Base Law.
In the Senate, and while the speeches continue to be chained, it seems that there are no longer any doubts that the rules will undergo modifications. There is not a single sector of the opposition that does not raise questions about some point of the regulations. Although Kirchnerism is going to go for a rejection opinion, it is most likely that it will lose that vote, so it will point to the modifications of the position norm where it has more and more support.
