June 17, 2008, 4:25 in the morning. I’m not going to ask them what they were doing at that time, because I know that most of them were sleeping. But on that day, at that time, of that year, the Senate of the Nation was in session and it took place at 4:25 on June 17, 2008. “no positive” vote of the then vice president Julio César Cleto Cobos.
In this way, Cristina Kirchner’s government lost the long battle against the countryside and the opposition won, the rural sector, which had tenaciously opposed the Resolution 125 which was precisely what was being voted on there in the Senate, the legalization of that resolution that established mobile withholdings.
Why am I talking about this? Because it was not known until today, more precisely until Wednesday, the session of the Senate for the Bases Law, a session in which one is going to vote and one gets to witness that session with so much uncertainty without really knowing how it will end.
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It is the session in which the Bases Law must be approved or rejected, which comes with half a sanction from the Chamber of Deputies. The vote is so even that, according to previous counts, up to this moment there is only one vote difference for the ruling party and three senators: two from Santa Cruz and the vote of Senator Martín Lousteau, who is hesitating, but who would be more in favor of voting with Kirchnerism than anything else, more a senator from the Province of Buenos Aires, a radical senator from the Province of Buenos Aires, Maximiliano Abad, who is also the president of the radicalism of the Province of Buenos Aires.
There are three votes, two from Santa Cruz and one from the Province of Buenos Aires, that will tip the balance in one direction or another.
Lots of things can happen. One of them is that the law is approved in general, as happened in the Deputies in February, but then that law is very faded, very stripped of articles, in the vote in particular. That is, there are many rejections of important items that the government wants to protect.
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There is a negotiation underway, complicated, difficult, to try to achieve the last wishes. And this is a preview of Chain 3: The Government is willing to give up the privatization of Aerolíneas Argentinas in exchange for the passing of the Bases Law. This was told to me by an unobjectionable source from the Senate of the Nation. They are willing to give up the privatization, to lift the privatization project that appears in the law of the state airline, which today has also gone on strike due to a dismissal and that has left thousands of passengers stranded throughout the country.
The concrete thing is that this Wednesday we are preparing for a session that will surely end very late, I don’t know if in the early hours of Thursday itself or on Wednesday itself, which still has an indefinite resolution. As indefinite as that session I told you about at the beginning, on June 17, 2018.
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