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The Deputy Chief of Staff, José Rolandi, He received the call with concern. On the other side of the line the deputy Oscar Agost Carreño transmitted to him, at the direction of Miguel Pichetto –head of the We Make Federal Coalition block-, that the bench had resolved minutes before not to insist on the privatization of the companies Argentine Airlines, Argentine Mail and Argentine Radio and Television (RTA)thus contradicting the Government’s claim that the Chamber of Deputies ignore what was voted in the Senate, which excluded these three companies from the list of privatizations.
Pichetto contacted the heads of the other dialogue blocks to let them know his position. This afternoon Rolandi meets, in the Lower House, with the block leaders of Pro, the UCR, We Make the Federal Coalition and Federal Innovation. Tomorrow the plenary session of the Budget and General Legislation commissions will meet, prior to the debate in the chamber, this Thursday.
Pichetto and his bloc put forward a legal and regulatory argument: The Chamber of Deputies cannot insist on something that the Senate did not vote on. In fact, minutes before the debate on the Basic Law project began in the Senate chamber, the provisional president of the Senate, Bartolome Abdala, reported that the ruling party had decided to remove these three public companies from the privatization chapter. Strictly speaking, it was a concession that the ruling party had to make to the bloc of radical senators and the Patagonian legislators to obtain their votes for the general approval of the Base Law project.
Thus, the text that the senators voted on did not include companies in the chapter on privatization. Argentine Airlines, Correo Argentino and RTA. The Chamber of Deputies, in its original half-sanction, had endorsed its privatization but, as Pichetto argued, it now does not have the power to insist on that version. “Those three companies were removed from the chapter by the provisional president of the Senate before the general vote on the project. For that reason, the Chamber of Deputies cannot insist on something that was not voted on,” he explained.
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