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Alberto Fernández's "mixed" format for Congress and the idea of ​​a move due to the pandemic

2020-09-03T21:15:17.194Z


The President met with Sergio Massa and Máximo Kirchner in Olivos on Wednesday. And he also spoke with opposition legislators.


Pablo Ibáñez

03/09/2020 - 17:50

  • Clarín.com

  • Politics

It was two hours, with coffee and tea, alone.

In Olivos, on Wednesday evening, Alberto Fernández received Sergio Massa and Máximo Kirchner, in a partial version of the "Tuesday table" that usually meets for lunch in the presidential palace.

The previous one had been agitated: a hot night for the deputies and a complicated awakening by the presidential "furcio" about the session in Deputies that forced, after a while, clarifications and translations.

In TN;

at night, Fernández admitted that he

was misrepresented

 when he said that Deputies had not been able to meet and

that his intention, as he told Massa and Máximo, was to state that he wanted Congress to meet with all the blocs.

And thus avoid the

possibility of prosecutions

.

The tone changed when Massa told the president what had happened at dawn, the thousands of messages he received on his cell phone, those that reached Malena Galmarini, his partner, the deputy's family and the circulation of photos of the sons of the head of the chamber.

Galmarini, who presides over AYSA,

canceled his telephone line

and that is why he "left" the WhatsApp group "Mujeres Gobernando".

This

untimely departure

generated intrigue among some officials,

but then the reason was known and the whispering ended. 

Máximo Kirchner was with Massa the long night and shared in Olivos

his proposal that Deputies move to a sports center in the Conurbano

if, as is being negotiated now, an agreement for mixed sessions is reached.

If the problem is judicial reform, I am not in a hurry, "the president warned them, a line that has been in place for a long time and Clarín already told.

" If you want to wait for it to be in person, we wait, "he

said. 

But when can there be normal face-to-face sessions?

Perhaps there will not be them this year

and, therefore, the proposal that

Eduardo "Bali" Bucca

raised in Parliamentary Labor

, for "mixed" sessions: those who want face-to-face and those who do not, remote, took force.

Fernández

validates the proposal for "mixed" sessions

, with deputies on the premises and other virtual ones, the Bucca plan that allowed the blocks to be chosen which, in turn, should notify in advance how many of each will attend.

For this reason, Máximo Kirchner's proposal to change Deputies because with social distancing measures,

no more than 90 legislators can participate

in the chamber - using the balconies and benches -

and with the "mixed" scheme, some 150 could participate.

Bucca mentioned Technopolis as an ideal transfer location, but the complex is intended for isolation beds for mild COVID-19 patients.

In parallel, an additional problem may appear: the transfer of staff and advisers would entail significant logistics and could eventually lead to problems with the unions.

That, at least, they warn from Together for Change (JxC).

It will depend, a priori, on the agenda but a hot agenda is coming: Budget 2021, tax on Great Fortunes and Judicial reform, among other issues, in addition to the fact that the sanction of the new formula for the retirement update that expires at end of the year.

The debate over the Budget, an issue that matters to the provinces, may be the key to streamlining the mixed sessions, despite the rejection of the most ultras of the JxC, and that the gesture of the ruling party is to accept a greater presence although involves moving Congress.

Santiago Cafiero is preparing to go to give the report as Chief of Cabinet, one in each chamber: at the end of September he will go to the Senate and there will be another scale before the end of the year in Deputies.


Source: clarin

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