05/21/2020 - 18:58
- Clarín.com
- Politics
During the mixed session in the Chamber of Deputies, before the reform of the Education Law and telehealth assistance was discussed, the opposition blocks tried unsuccessfully to include in the agenda the DNU signed by Alberto Fernández to grant special powers to Santiago Cafiero - Chief of Cabinet - to reallocate budget items as part of measures to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. The oficialismo, with the collaboration of some allies, blocked the initiative .
The radical Gustavo Menna raised a point of order to address the opinion of the Bicameral Commission for Legislative Processing. "There was a clear departure from the Constitution by the Executive Power when issuing decree 457/20, which overwhelms the powers of this Parliament and in which the superpowers are reimplanted ," said the deputy for Chubut, adding: question an attribution, perhaps the most important of the Legislative Power, which is to approve the Law of Laws, the Budget. No one can doubt that it is an exclusive attribution of the National Congress . "
With a strong rejection of opposition referents, the DNU ordered an increase in public spending of $ 498 billion and empowered the Cabinet leadership to restructure games without control of Congress and without the 5% limit of the Budget, which governed until then. "The government has to reassign games. It is a necessity to be able to have the resources to equip the hospitals, to support the industry that was left standing, to pay the subsidies, to the retirees and the allowances ”, the decree defended the official deputy Lucía Corpacci during the treatment in the Bicameral. Before, Cafiero himself had replied to the criticism.
The Front of All avoided the debate this Thursday on the premises. To include it on the agenda, Menna's motion had to be approved with three-quarters of those present, something that did not happen. The ruling party voted against and gathered 127 votes with members of the Federal interblock (led by Eduardo Bucca) and Federal Development Unit (by José Luis Ramón). The benches of Together for Change voted, the Left Front, Graciela Camano, the socialists Enrique Estévez and Luis Contigiani, the Cordovan Peronist Claudia Márquez and two deputies of the Front of All: Rosa Muñoz and Romina Uhrig.
The rejection of non-official deputies to the treatment generated cross reproaches. "It was not the way to deal with the issue," argued Jorge Sarghini.