Ignacio Miri
12/02/2020 10:31 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 12/02/2020 10:31 PM
In one morning, Cristina Kirchner reversed one of the most studied decisions of Alberto Fernández's entire administration.
The senators who respond to the vice president suspended the committee meeting in which the pension update formula that the President sent to Congress was to be debated and a while later, in a brief statement, they turned everything around.
Fernández had taken a few days after assuming the decision to suspend the pension increase formula that had been drawn up by the government of Mauricio Macri.
He did it through an economic emergency package that he sent to Congress and it was his first signal to the markets, because it implied a phenomenal adjustment in state spending that at the time was widely celebrated by the financial world.
With that suspension, in addition, the President created a special commission, made up of the Government, Congress and pension specialists that
would spend months calculating a new formula
to increase pensions, pensions and social plans in the future.
The Minister of Labor, Claudio Moroni, coordinated that work together with the camper Fernanda Raverta and the project that was sent to Congress, of course, was supervised by the Minister of Economy, Martín Guzmán, who, at least until the closing of this note , had been "empowered" by the President as the ultimate decider on economic issues.
For the senators that Cristina commands, this whole scheme lasted a while, and the Government was forced to
modify its parliamentary strategy for the second time in two days
, since on Tuesday it had redesigned the entire scheme of ordinary sessions of Congress that had been announced Monday.
Episodes like this suggest that it is true what the government spokesmen say when they admit that the President and the vice president have not spoken for weeks, and also suggest that
the head of the Senate and her operators in Congress also do not speak with the ministers
of Power Executive to coordinate such determining issues in the National Budget as the formula with which pensions and social plans will be increased in the coming years.
As if the uncertainty were not enough, when the day was ending the President defined in a meeting with Moroni and Raverta that he would include
a new modification to the project
that he had sent to Congress so that the increases would be made
four times a year and not twice
.