The project to manage the pandemic will enter the Senate and the Government asks the opposition 'to give a frank debate'

Ignacio Ortelli

05/10/2021 14:05

• Clarín.com

• Politics

Updated 05/10/2021 2:31 PM

The Government will send this afternoon the project that it is promoting to establish objective parameters, sanitary measures and restrictions to combat the coronavirus pandemic.

The novelty is that it will finally enter the Senate, where Cristina Kirchner manages the times and the ruling party has a large majority to approve it without changes.

This was announced by the Chief of Staff, Santiago Cafiero, who after a tour of Berazategui, confirmed that this Monday afternoon he will send the project that he polished with the Legal and Technical Secretary, Vilma Ibarra, and to which the President has already given the go-ahead before embarking on his European tour.

"This afternoon we will be sending the bill to the Senate and we hope that there will be a frank debate where the opposition does not seek to engage in politics with the pandemic but rather to

have a constructive behavior that until now it has not had," said Cafiero

, who took note of the message he sent. the National Board of Together for Change, which a while before had rejected the possibility of granting "superpowers" to the President: "We must not under any point of view endorse greater powers that overwhelm the provincial and city autonomies," said the leaders opponents

. 

In Balcarce 50 they admit that the President's intention is that

an express procedure be given in Congress

to have this tool

before May 21

, when the current DNU must be renewed

.

.

Then, he assured that the project "aims to have objective parameters that must be debated within the chambers" and crossed to Together for Change, which with the endorsement of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta already anticipated his refusal to give extraordinary powers to the President, considering that "blocking the political discussion and dialogue before knowing the text of the law is not constructive at all."

Finally, the coordinating minister insisted on demanding "that the opposition take advantage of this time to work honestly and not engage in politics with the pandemic as it has unfortunately been doing in recent times."

As Clarín advanced, the text is based on the indicators that the President used in the last decree of necessity and urgency with which he renewed preventive and mandatory social isolation.

In that text, which the head of state signed knowing that he was going to send this project later, four categories were set, low, medium and high risk and epidemiological alarm based on three factors: increase in infections in the last 14 days, number of cases depending on the population and the occupation of intensive care beds.

Through the enactment of this law,

the Government seeks coverage on two fronts.

In principle, in an election year, the idea is to remove the management of the pandemic from the axis of the campaign and thus prevent the opposition from using it to question the President

.

On the other hand, after the setback in the bid with the City for face-to-face classes, shield the eventual restrictions that must be imposed in a pandemic context by

 reducing the margin for challenges before the Justice to prosper.

For this reason, it was noted that in the adverse ruling of the Supreme Court of Justice, the magistrates considered "insufficient" the arguments that Alberto F. had initially outlined to impose the suspension of attendance in schools.

With this project, the Casa Rosada understands that this requirement would be covered. 

Look also

With the endorsement of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, the Together for Change table ratified the rejection of the superpowers to Alberto Fernández

Alberto Fernández sends the law to have more power in the pandemic and seeks an express sanction