The opposition puts pressure on the ruling party and amid cross complaints over the paralysis of the Senate,
Together for Change also asked Cristina Kirchner
to call a special session for March 30.
They want to deal with
six lists of judges for Rosario and Córdoba and the Lucio Law
.
The Senate has not been in session since the end of November.
Last week, theNone can guarantee a quorum alone.
They need each other.
Together for Change has 33 legislators and the federal bloc has 5. The magic number is 37.
The
situation took a 180 degree turn in a matter of days
.
Last week, the head of the Frente de Todos block, José Mayans, had a promising meeting with the main legislative swords of JxC: Luis Naidenoff, Alfredo Cornejo and Humberto Schiavoni.
They had left with the commitment to agree on issues to be discussed in a joint session on March 30.
But later, both benches began to cross paths, via public statements, about who was to blame for the
paralysis of the Senate
.
After JxC pointed out that Vice President Cristina Kirchner is guilty of not advancing documents and laws that would help combat drug violence in Rosario, the FdT issued a statement against the opposition.
"It was this pro-government bench that has been working almost alone all these years and was forced to gather, on most occasions, its own quorum to be able to hold sessions," they complained.
For her part, Senator Juliana Di Tullio declared that Santa Fe "is in a state of emergency because the opposition does not want to vote for anything" and that "the vice president is not a senator, she is part of the Executive Branch, so clearly she is not the one who stops the operation of the legislative body”.
Faced with this, Together for Change responded with another statement in which they stated that "in the Senate the work of the Frente de Todos is to attend to the agenda of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner."
These public crossings
wrecked the intention of the agreement and JxC ended up presenting its own session request on Tuesday
and is
on its way to reaching an agreement with Guillermo Snopek's Federal Unity bloc
, which brings together four former ruling party legislators and Alejandra Vigo from Cordoba.
Both agree to deal with three legal documents for Rosario and another three for Córdoba.
They also want to deal with the Lucio Law, which if approved would become law.
This project was on the President's extraordinary agenda, which was not dealt with.
It was voted by Deputies at the beginning of November and the Senate gave it an opinion at the end of that same month.
But it failed to meet in December and was pending.
If they vote for it, it becomes law.