The president of the Chamber of Deputies, Martín Menem, pressured the governor of La Rioja, Ricardo Quintela, and legislators of that province by Union for the Homeland (UxP) to to vote in favor of the Fiscal Package, which will be discussed starting this noon in Congress together with the Bases Law. Furthermore, he assured that if this initiative is approved “there is not a single reason that justifies” using a local currency to pay salaries of officials.
“If the Fiscal Package is approved tomorrow, La Rioja will receive an extra $75,000 million. I hope that Governor Ricardo Quintela will accompany the 4 UxP deputies,” Menem published on his in money laundering, tax on Personal Assets, Profits and the Monotax.
In that sense, Menem also warned that “there is not a single reason that justifies using the ‘chachos'”in relation to the new Debt Cancellation Bonds – called “Chacho”, in memory of the leader Ángel Vicente Peñaloza -, a local currency created by Governor Quintela to pay salaries of provincial officials.
Menem’s message generated repudiation on the social network X, where users warned about the attitude of the president of the Chamber of Deputies. Germany .
Deputies discuss the Bases Law and the Fiscal Package in the midst of pressures
After approval in the Senate, the Bases and Fiscal Package bills returned to Deputies to ratify the changes made. Although the Government wanted to resume part of the wording of the original chamber, the majority of what was sanctioned in the revising chamber will be respected. In this way, the ruling party is preparing to have its first two laws. Last Tuesday, the Bases law obtained an opinion from the plenary session of General Legislation; Constitutional Affairs and Budget and Treasury, while the latter endorsed the Fiscal Package.
In this way, after six months of being announced and sent to Congress by the Government of President Javier Milei, the Bases Law will be treated as it was voted in the Senate on June 12 – with changes in the RIGI and three companies outside the list of privatizables-Meanwhile, the fiscal chapter will reincorporate the income tax and the modifications to Personal Property.
The session is estimated to last between 12 and 15 hours. According to the deputy and leader of the dialogue bloc We Make the Federal Coalition, Miguel Angel Pichetto, tAfter the pre-work meeting, “The Bases law and the fiscal package will be discussed in general” first and the amount of time was agreed upon so as not to result in a debate that had already taken place.
