After the changes announced last Friday by Minister Luis Caputo (Economy), the Government would make new concessions this Monday to the parliamentary blocs allied to Deputies with the aim of ensuring that this Tuesday there is finally a debate in the so-called Bases Law:
would accept to eliminate the powers delegated to the Executive in fiscal and pension matters
.
After having removed the fiscal package from the Omnibus Law, the "dialogue" opposition showed its conformity but stated that
new consensus had yet to be achieved with the ruling party
, in this case, in relation to limiting the powers that Parliament delegates to the President and in the chapter on privatizations of public companies.
That is why this Monday morning
Martín Menem
, head of the Chamber of Deputies,
will summon the heads of opposition blocs to his office
to finalize details of the opinion that they will seek to bring to a vote on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the LLA bloc, led by Oscar Zago, will meet at 3:00 p.m. A day of
"frantic negotiations"
is expected to try to bring positions closer together.
The atmosphere in the legislative palace, however, was
strained by the marches and countermarches
around the ruling of the initiative and the attack by the Executive itself against the "allied" governors whom it even threatened to "leave them without a peso", in reference to an eventual pruning in the sending of non-shareable federal funds.
"Until the call for the session is made, nothing can be assured,"
said an LLA legislative source, aware of the difficulties that the ruling party experienced in finalizing the legislative schedule proposed at the beginning of the month.
Support (and requests) from governors
Although there is a commitment from the "allied" provincial leaders and from the PRO, Hacemos and a sector of the UCR blocks to accompany what is left of the Omnibus Law, in the ruling party
the alarm lights are turning on
due to the proposals of the last days.
However, the governor of Cordoba,
Martín Llaryora
, told FM Millenium that the deputies of his province could vote affirmatively on the initiative, although he clarified that "in the part of the powers delegated to Milei we are going to accompany her, but with limitations
.
"
It is in this context that an important libertarian source hinted that they would be willing to restrict Milei's authority to "legislate" in fiscal and pension matters. And that these reforms, such as the new retirement formula or the changes in Profits, could be discussed in ordinary sessions. "If we do that, are they going to accompany us or are they going to continue waiting for what?" He asked himself when asked by Clarín.
Beyond the suspicions and resentment towards a sector of the opposition that presented itself as a dialogueist, in the ruling party there are also
some passing of the bill
at this time for what, in fact, resulted in the first capitulation of its ambitious plan of reforms.
"Here those who designed the strategy do not take charge," another official source fired in an elliptical reference to the Chief of Staff,
Nicolás Posse
, and the strategist
Santiago Caputo
, who recommended "going all out" with an ambitious package of laws of more than 300 articles instead of submitting several regulatory projects.
Given the failure of the negotiations last Friday, all eyes were on the actions of the political wing,
Menem
himself and
his cousin "Lule"
and Minister
Guillermo Francos
(Interior).
However,
Karina Milei
that day came to the rescue of the Rioja cousins and held meetings in Parliament and in the Casa Rosada, in a clear sign of support.
Beyond these internal tensions,
the ruling party seeks to achieve consensus to give half a sanction
to a regulation that, although dismantled, they consider a key step in the governability signal that they need to send to the markets.
In dialogue with radio Miter, the Minister of Security,
Patricia Bullrich
, sent a message to the opposition blocs: “It seems to me that there are times when
you don't have to look so much at the fine print
of a law but rather you have to look at the general circumstances of the country. .
A Copernican change has to be made and it has to be quick because time is directly proportional to the possibility of failure.”