Everything is ready for Wednesday, and after several delays, the Senate treats the clean card project, resisted by Kirchnerism and that prevents them from presenting to elections and being elected to those convicted in the second judicial instance.
Anyway, and beyond the call for the session, it was already officially convened, from the government of Javier Milei They sowed some doubts about the presence of the ruling in the session.
“We do not like losing anything. And if there is no certainty of having the number, only a stupid one would summon the session,” they said today, very close to the head of state, in a morning in which the president arrived after 9 at Balcarce 50.
Two weeks ago, and in line with Kirchnerism-which considers the clean card project as a direct attack on the electoral ambitions of former president Cristina Kirchner-, the Senate ruling postponed the treatment of the project, already approved by the Chamber of Deputies. After the last postponement, suspicions of an unwritten pact between the government and the loyal to the former president, which would be outside the national election appointment of this year, in case of approved the norm.
As reported The nationthe insistence of the dialoguistic opposition in the Upper House promoted the treatment of the project this Wednesday. when two days are missing for the session, convened by the vice president Victoria Villarruelfrom the executive branch the doubts about their effective treatment, hours after the chief of cabinet, Guillermo Francosbe emphatic when stating, in radial interviews, that “the votes to approve are (the law). There are no doubt.” In off the recordother senior national officials also expressed their confidence in the approval of the norm, another sample of the lack of unanimity that today reigns in the ruling party, in relation to “getting the former president out of the court.”
With 34 Kirchner senators against the approval of the norm, the remaining 38 senators (of radicalism, pro, provincial parties and a handful of libertarians) would raise their hand to turn the project into law, a bank more than the minimum of 37 necessary to have quorum and start meeting. A few days after the Buenos Aires elections of Sunday 18, and with the PRO including the clean tab as one of its main campaign battle knights, official sources did not rule out a new postponement.
Ezequiel Achauchehead of the libertarian block in the Senate and close to the off -road advisor Santiago CaputoIt was the one who last month requested in full session the postponement of the debate, hours after the death of Pope Francis, and with the argument of not dealing with a conflictive issue at a time of national mourning for the death of the Holy Father.
Kirchnerism then agreed to leave the debate for this Wednesday, and it would remain firm and cohesive in its rejection of the norm, which would not prevent Cristina Kirchner from being a candidate for provincial deputy in the Buenos Aires elections of September next-one of the options that are considered in recent weeks-but would sell her nomination for national deputy in the elections of October.
The clean file is in force in some provinces, such as Jujuy and Santa Fe, but is far from being treated in the Buenos Aires Legislature.
Modify the project, and that it returns to deputies, is another of the options with which those who intend to delay the sanction of the initiative, approved by deputies last February 12, with 144 affirmative votes, 98 negative and 2 abstentions.
The rule, according to the considering of the project, “proposes a series of regulatory modifications aimed at preventing those who have been sentenced in second instance for a crime of corruption can be candidates for national elective positions or occupy different positions in the field of national public administration.” President Cristina Kirchner was sentenced six years in prison and disqualification to exercise public positions for the road cause, sentence confirmed last November by the Federal Chamber of Cassation.
