Problems for the ruling party in the Senate: Santa Cruz legislators José María Carambia and Natalia Gadano proposed this afternoon not to give a quorum for tomorrow’s session and to remove the Bases Law from the agenda. The objective is to vote first on the fiscal package and for Deputies to then ratify those changes. And they also demand that, in the next few hours, the retirement project approved last week in the Lower House be incorporated to expressly sanction it.
This way, tomorrow’s session is at serious risk. To achieve a quorum, the ruling party and the dialogueists will depend on two radicals: Maximiliano Abad and Martín Lousteau. The first has not spoken for more than a week and the second comes with his own opinion. A whole mess that adds tension in the Upper House.
In a series of unclear videos sent to journalists accredited in the Senate, Carambia – along with Gadano – assured: “From our block, today we believe that the priority is not the Bases law. They are the retirees, and we understand that we must first address the issue of retirees with the fiscal package, in the event that the fiscal package is approved and the national government does not have any excuse to pay our retirees.”.
“That is why we ask the senators, our colleagues, to Tomorrow we will not have a quorum. That the fiscal package be discussed first along with the issue of retirees and then, the Bases law. The only way we can know that the national government is going to comply with any changes in a law, if we manage to save airlines, make profits, is that they really comply if a law is first passed to the Chamber of origin -in reference to Deputies -, they ratify what the Senators did and then deal with the rest. If not, there is no assurance of any kind that they will comply with the pacts and agreements,” said the legislator.
Translation: Carambia and Gadano want the Bases law not to be dealt with first tomorrow. They want to remove it from the agenda. Then, vote on the fiscal package with the changes introduced by the dialogue opposition in the Budget and Finance commission. Following this, incorporate the retirement initiative into the debate and sanction it. Then, the Lower House must “comply” with the senators and ratify – without insisting on any point of the original version – the fiscal package. And, just there, resume the discussion of the Bases law.
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