Even without the guaranteed votes and in the midst of a debate that will be expected to be extended for several hours, the government followed on Wednesday the vote of clean file in Congress and trusted that it was going to be approved, which would give a triumph to the PRO and, in particular, to Silvia Lospendatoone of the rivals of the ruling in the city of Buenos Aires.
In his office in the fifth of Olivos, the president himself Javier Milei He remained informed of the events in the Senate, where his vice, Victoria VillarruelI was leading the encounter.
“It is not aware of the minute by minute, but we are all expectant. Of course we want it to be approved today”, Said a Infobae A person who has a fluid dialogue with the national president.
It is that, in the previous of the parliamentary discussion, one of the versions that circulated was that the libertarian block could try to drop the session or introduce some changes in the norm so that it is not sanctioned before the Buenos Aires elections.
“It is striking the number of initiatives that put at the beginning of the debate, perhaps they did to mour the court and see what happens, but I think everything will end up,” warned a member of the UCR on Tuesday.
However, finally the officialism gave quorum and in the Casa Rosada they trusted that the votes are to approve clean card, although they pointed out that it is not their own initiative.
In fact, the chief of cabinet, Guillermo Francoswhich usually works at the meeting of wills for legislative projects, this time remained outside the negotiations.
In the morning, the official received in his office as Balcarce 50 to the new dome of the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA), headed by his brand new headline, Martín Rappallini.
Other members of the entity participated in that meeting, such as the Vice President of Industrial Development, David Uriburu; the sector vice president, Rodrigo Pérez Graziano and the secretary Eduardo Nouguéswith whom he spoke on the march of the country’s economy.
Later, when the session in the Senate had already begun, Francos retired from the Casa Rosada to attend a meeting of the YPF board that he already had scheduled and, although he remains aware of what is happening in the upper house, You have no magazine to go to the siteas he did in other votes.
The doubt at this time was what the senators were going to do by Santa Cruz, who in the prelude to the debate anticipated that they will accompany the initiative of the PRO, although the ruling party had doubts that they fulfilled that word.
The Government and its allies need 37 votes in favor to sanction the project that, to become law, would give a triumph to Lospenno, current candidate for Buenos Aires legislator for the party founded by Mauricio Macri.
In the surroundings of the current national deputy clarified that, although it would be a victory for her because she is identified with the norm, “He will not be awarded with his own achievementbecause it is a job in which many people intervened. ”
In fact, the original text was modified, by instruction of President Milei, by the Minister of Defense, Luis Petriafter a first attempt to approve it.
The leader near Macri is one of the main adversaries of the presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni In the city of Buenos Aires, where the PRO and Freedom progresses did not reach an agreement.
In addition, the debate occurs in the middle of the increase in tensions between the two parties, after the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrichwill formalize his transfer to the ruling party.
“Today, by turning her back on those who voted and believed her in her, she leaves behind a very large part of her reputation, perhaps all. The PRO, like the voters, learn from good and bad experiences, distinguishes between people and continues to advance to fulfill her change mandate,” he said the “dialoguistic” space in a statement.
