Jasmine Bullorini
03/03/2021 10:50
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 03/03/2021 11:19
From Congress, President Alberto Fernández once again demanded the treatment of the Judicial Reform and the Procurement Law, two projects that were frozen in the Deputies.
But in the lower house they assure that the situation did not change:
the ruling party needs, yes or yes, the accompaniment of allies to obtain their approval and the minority blocks maintain their rejection
.
In the Frente de Todos - where there are also different nuances - they point out the need for the Minister of Justice, Marcela Losardo, to intervene to unblock the negotiation.
"It sounded more like an expression of desire than a real possibility. The situation here remains the same:
the votes are not there and we had no news
", agree two parliamentary sources of the ruling party.
With both issues stalled for months, it sounds even less likely that the proposal announced by Fernández to create a
Federal Court of Guarantees
- which decides on the arbitrariness of the sentences and limits the power of the Supreme Court - or the conformation of a
bicameral commission
to control the Judicial Power, as it transpired in the last hours.
Already last year, when
the Senate approved a
bicameral to investigate Vicentin's debt,
the project was stopped in the lower houses where it did not even begin to be debated.
The same happened when the upper house rejected the
macrista decree that transferred the wiretapping office
to the Supreme Court of the Nation.
To repeal it, it must also be dismissed by Deputies, but it was not dealt with.
"With evident abuse of authority Kirchnerism wants to attribute powers that the National Constitution gives to the Council of the Magistracy and the Jury of Prosecution.
Unacceptable, they will not pass,
" the head of the Together for Change bloc, Mario Negri, marked the field. .
The main opposition group is against all these initiatives, which is why the Frente de Todos requires the accompaniment of at least a part of the minority blocs.
In that sense, the Lavagnismo and the four Cordovan people who respond to Governor Juan Schiaretti are the key.
Both sectors had advanced their rejection of the judicial reform and the Procurement law.
At this time, in addition, they are in tension with the Executive due to the biofuels law that is still pending treatment and despite the promises, the President did not include it on the agenda of extraordinary events nor did he mention it in his opening speech.
"The president's statements were typical of the campaign, to polarize, but
I don't think they have a destination,
"
Alejandro "Topo" Rodríguez, head of the Federal Consensus Lavagnist bloc
, assured
Clarín
.
Regarding the Judicial Reform, he added: "It seems to me that the position within the ruling party itself is not clear either. And this being an electoral year and with the virulence that was heard about the Judicial Power,
there is no institutional climate to advance in such a reform."
Months ago, the deputy who chairs the Justice committee, Rodolfo Tailhade, and his peer from the Constitutional Affairs committee, at that time Pablo González - who now migrated to YPF - went to speak with Losardo about the Reform that she wrote.
They commented on
the missing votes
- at least seven - and some proposals for changes to try to add endorsements.
The official agreed to analyze the issue, they say, but there was no progress.
In the FdT they point out that the issue requires their intervention to be able to negotiate the modifications.
They are not points that Máximo Kirchner or Sergio Massa can negotiate without their endorsement, they point out.
The president of the Chamber
also never defended the initiative in public.
Two weeks ago, the Christian senator Oscar Parrilli had sent a message that resonated within the FdT itself: "There are some legislators who are allies of ours who until now have not given the ok to sanction it and with this they are being in some way
complicit with the macrismo
in maintaining a absolutely irregular, macrista prosecutor who carries out these policies and who allows this lawfare to continue in force, ”he said.
Then he clarified that he was referring to the opposition blocs that mostly accompany government projects and not to the bosom of the ruling party.
After the Judicial Reform was partially sanctioned in the Senate, the block of four legislators from Córdoba Federal had advanced that it would not vote for that law: "The treatment of said bill
is inappropriate
and should not be dealt with without the necessary consensus that a reform requires. of this magnitude ", they had pointed out.
For now, everything indicates that they have not changed their minds.
