The Casa Rosada advocates and builds bridges so that the project is approved before May 25. Massa, alone with two leaders.
From minute zero of the half penalty in the Chamber of Deputies of the official project of the Bases Law, the seduction operation was launched from the Pink House with the governors, taking into account that the members of the Senate represent the provinces. It will not be an easy task, since the Executive Branch only counts seven as its own, out of a total of 72, the Union for the Homeland (UP) bloc has 33 votes and with 37 it can reject the official initiative. What’s more, simply by modifying part of an article the law must be discussed again in Deputies.
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In this scenario and still with the tailwind of the first triumph of the libertarian government in the National Congress, the focus is on the provincial leaders, thirsty for cash and cash funds for public works, education and social assistance, where the President Javier Milei passed the chainsaw. One of the main protagonists in building bridges with Balcarce 50 is the Minister of the Interior, Guillermo Francoswhich in recent weeks toured several provinces, including, Misiones, Tucumán, Córdoba and Santiago del Estero to fish for wills. Due to the result obtained in Deputies, with the support of the parliamentarians who respond to the governors Hugo Passalacqua, Osvaldo Jaldo and Martín Llaryora, the balance was positive but in the Senate everything seems to be uphill. Much more so if the Executive Branch intends to have its project approved before the May Pact, scheduled for the 25th, in Córdoba.
One of the first to define her position was senator for Catamarca Lucía Corpacci who, beyond having considered that “the Governor Raúl Jalil has the need to seek some type of meeting with the national government,” he said that “it is very likely that it will not accompany (the Bases Law), but that must be said after the project comes in and we see it.” “First it has to get (to the Senate). I clearly always oppose all those things that say, now I want him to come in; read it because we don’t have it in our hands,” she explained in an interview on Radio10. A few hours before, Jalil had pointed out in a report that “it is very important that the law be approved in the Senate”considering that “it is time to help.” Catamarca has three senators who are Corpacci and Guillermo Andrada, from UP, and Flavio Fama, from the Unión Cívica Radical (UCR). The Nation’s objective is to get Jalil to guarantee the support of Andrada, former Minister of Communication of the re-elected president. “Guillermo is from Raúl’s kidney, he has little room to move autonomously,” he told Ámbito. a pro-government provincial deputy from that province, before a consultation.
The north can be key
It seems little, but the one-on-one discussion will be key in the vote in the Upper House. For this reason, the role of Tucumán Osvaldo Jaldo it is also important for the libertarian objective. Since this Thursday he is in the Federal Capital, where he would hold meetings with two senators. On the one hand, with the former governor Juan Manzur, and with Sandra Mendoza from Tucumán. For the former provincial head’s objective of once again weighing heavily in the reconstruction of the Justicialist Party, his vote against the official initiative is discarded. Due to its proximity to Mendoza, Jaldo would seek to get the former provincial legislator to vote in favor of the Bases Law. It will be seen. Meanwhile, Jaldo does count on the support of the Senator Beatriz Ávilawhich has its one-man block “For Social Justice”, wife of the former mayor of San Miguel de Tucumán, Germán Alfaro (Together for Change)with whom the Tucumán provincial chief rebuilt his bond.
The dialogues with the leaders not only have as protagonists operators of the National Executive. This week, Ámbito learned that in a building on Libertador Avenue, in the Federal Capital, the Former candidate for president of the Nation Sergio Massa met with two provincial leaders. First he was with him Gerardo Zamora from Santiago and then with him Gildo Insfrán from Formosa. The content of the meetings was not revealed but both guaranteed that all the deputies of their provinces were against the Base Law. Although Francos met with Zamora two weeks ago, in Balcarce 50 there is little hope of being able to count, at least, some of the votes that correspond to both. In any case, in the last hours and in an interview, Francos referred to Zamora like a governor who manages his province “with the same arguments that Milei raises for the Nation: he has it organized, he has zero deficit and he is careful with the numbers.”
The bridge with the missionary Passalacqua did bear fruit, although before the obligatory photo between Francos and the provincial leader, the Minister of the Interior stopped by the office of the provincial legislator Carlos Rovira, the true brain and creator of the Missionary Concord Front. All the deputies voted for the Base Law and it is assumed that the deputies will do the same. senators Carlos Arce and Sonia Rojas Decut, from the Front, and Enrique Goerling Lara, from the PRO. In recent days, both Passalacqua and Jaldo stated that they hope the Government “complies.” That is to say, that channels be opened with fresh funds for works.
