The ruling party will try to neutralize the opposition outpost in the Senate.
Faced with the threat that Juntos por el Cambio and the Unidad Federal bloc associate and manage to reopen the facility without them -which would be an unusual show of force before Cristina Kirchner- the Frente de Todos intends to resume the initiative and get it to
end coming together in a single consensus session.
In this sense, the ruling party called a Parliamentary Labor meeting for Wednesday, with the heads of all the blocks, with the idea of agreeing there.
Thus, the session would not end up belonging to anyone in particular, but to everyone.
In other words, there would be no political winners or losers.
"We had talks with the blocks with the idea of dealing with issues that make for common action.
We are going to do Labor and try to bring the issues on which we have an agreement
," confirmed this Saturday the head of the Frente de Todos block, José Mayans , in radio statements.
Since Cristina Kirchner presides over the Senate, the number of Parliamentary Work meetings that have taken place can be counted on the fingers of one hand.
In fact, she only conducted one of those meetings.
The rest, and surely the one on Wednesday falls to the pension president, Claudia Ledesma Abdala from Santiago.
In the opposition they distrust and analyze strategies.
"The ruling party remembers the word agreement late and nobody can believe them.
Agreeing is not in their DNA.
The confrontation was the logic with which they always handled themselves. They have to assume that they are of the ruling party,"
the head of the bloc told
Clarín
radical Luis Naidenoff.
So far there is a special session requested by the block of five chaired by Guillermo Snopek for Wednesday the 29th and one requested by Together for Change for Thursday the 30th. The idea of the ruling party is to request one of its own, expanding the agenda and asking
the vice president to unify dates.
Meanwhile, the five-member bloc -Federal Unity- assures that
it will not move from its agenda
.
But they included a project to reduce VAT on electricity rates that has not even been approved.
The two sessions requested by the opposition coincide in proposing the treatment of only 6 judicial documents: for Rosario and Córdoba.
The Frente de Todos intends that all the specifications already ruled on be dealt with, not only by the courts but also by the Armed Forces.
They add up to more than 40. "Now they are concerned about Santa Fe, but they did not vote in Deputies for the Judicial Reform that strengthened Justice throughout the country," Mayans complained, noting that "the stoppage seeks to destroy the government's actions."
The Lucio Law is another point on which everyone agrees.
But the ruling party also wants to include the tax reduction project for technological innovations and, if it reaches an internal agreement, the Zero Alcohol law.
The truth is that as long as there is no consensus, by regulation, Cristina is obliged to convene all the sessions that are requested.
Article 20 stipulates that the president "after receiving the petition, will order the respective summons for the day and time that she deems best, if her body has not indicated them, depending on the matter or the circumstances of the case."
If later one falls due to lack of quorum is another story.
The Senate has not met since mid-November.
Mayans, was planning to call a session at the end of February and the day before, four legislators from the bloc absconded.
The shock forced a change of plans.
Now he was negotiating with JxC to go to a session on Thursday the 30th. He got to meet with the leaders of the opposition bloc, Alfredo Cornejo, Humberto Schiavoni and Luis Naidenoff, but a cascade of statements with crossed accusations about the paralysis of Congress ended up becoming rare. the weather and the opposition called a session on their own that day.
The reality is that no one can guarantee a quorum alone.
They need each other.
Together for Change has 33 legislators, the Frente de Todos 31 and the Federal Bloc 5. The magic number is 37.