The Libertad Senate Block advances (lla), Led by Ezequiel Airuchea statement shared on Monday in which it is said that on Wednesday the space will vote in favor so that the clean file project becomes law and for The freezing of diets.
“We have the historical opportunity to send a strong and clear message to the whole society: those who love each other hide in the fueros to avoid the verdict of justice They will not have more impunity “the libertarians highlighted.
In this way, the official bloc ratifies its “Commitment to support the clean file project which has half a sanction in deputies. “
In addition, in the same statement they express that they are in favor of freeze the diets of the senators so that The salaries are not updated with the last increase established in Parliament.
“While inflation continues to go down, Argentines continue to make sacrifices. The political class must be at the forefront of this sacrifice “they say.
On different occasions the vice president, Victoria Villarruel, had warned that the power to increase or put a brake on the rise of the diets was the same senators.
To finish the text, the libertarians argue that they will vote in favor of both projects and that They hope that other spaces also commit themselves “With justice, freedom and democracy.”
The freezing of the salar a figure greater than nine million pesos.
In the last session, in which they met to honor Pope Francis, They eluded the debate.
The project of Clean file, that prohibits the candidacy for national positions to those who have double sentence for corruption, could become A black swan Because its impact exceeds Cristina Kirchner’s future, since he gets into the tense Buenos Aires electoral campaign for the elections of May 18 and in the dispute between Javier Milei and Mauricio Macri.
Is that the initiative The Silvia Lospenatowho is the first candidate for Buenos Aires legislator for the PRO, and if the law is approved, from Lla they consider that Mauricio Macri’s candidate It could be benefited.
Who question the project argue that Do not prosecute politics giving more power to the judges, especially in the provinces. Because it is the same magistrates who have delayed – sometimes on the same, sometimes for system failures – that convictions against corrupt officials are firm in a reasonable time period.
With the Fair number Almost insured of 37 senators to start the quorum and convert clean card into law, the project was expected to be treated last week in the Senate. To the surprise of many, at the Meeting of Block Chiefs with Victoria Villarruel, The libertarian Autoucho with the support of Kirchnerism, he refused And he asked to postpone him for this Wednesday, May 7, under an excuse of not addressing conflicting issues just days after the death of Pope Francis.
The options that the government has to avoid the approval of the law and the prohibition for Cristina to be a national candidate to be capitalized by Mauricio Macri, would be two: delay it and after the choice in the city or let the Senate fall.
For the first option, the strategy of modifying the project in the Upper House so that it has to return to deputies, and thus win time and delay your approval.
In addition, with a distant relationship between Milei and Victoria Villarruel, the government, in case it does not prosper clean file in the Senate, could opt for hold your vice hold for not gathering the votes necessary in the enclosure.
“On May 7 the votes are, so there is no excuse, He who does not feel, wants to defend the corrupt “warned thepennates, immersed in the Buenos Aires campaign.
Victoria Villarruel warned that this time she will not intercede in the diets of the senators
The vice president had assured that the issue of salaries of senators It must be resolved by themselves and in the enclosureso the message of the libertarian block was a clear response to it.
“Today the senators of all the blocks agreed to an increase in their salary that was voted on a raised hand in the enclosure for having the necessary votes to do so. As president of the Senate I am not a senator, I do not charge the Senate and I can’t interfere with those decisions. Nor can I force him to vote nominally nor to justify the decision Bold by all, because I am not a senator, ”Villaruel launched in 2024 when the increase in diets in Parliament was treated.
Victoria Villaruel during the session for Pope Francis. Photo Federico López Claro.Villarruel, after being questioned by its inaction Given the salary increases of the senators, the freezing of legislators diets until March 31 extended last January.
The vice president made the decision after receiving express orders In this line of the blocks of Lla, Pro, UCR, the Federal United Provinces, the Missionaries and the expelled libertarian, Francisco Paoltroni.
Once the freezing date is fulfilled, the issue of diets and Villarruel should be discussed again that he cannot intercede on this occasion, unlike what happened earlier this year because being within the ordinary sessions period, The decision will remain in the hands of legislators.
The controversy for the salaries of the senators was installed from the moment that They set it at 2,500 moduleswhich is the system used to define the salaries of Congress employees, plus 1,000 modules for representation expenses and 500 for uprooting. When the parity of legislative is updated, automatically increases the diets of the senators.
