With Congress fenced off and incidents in the surrounding area, the Chamber of Deputies began this Wednesday the debate on
Javier Milei
's Omnibus Law - which suffered new cuts - while in the offices
negotiations and rewrites continued against the clock
to prevent key articles, such as the of privatizations and delegated powers, fall on the premises.
After voting to move to an intermission room to "
work within reasonable hours
" - which was rejected by Kirchnerism - the debate will continue this Thursday starting at 12. And
it is not ruled out that the session will also extend until this Friday
for the voting on particular articles.
Under their breath they recognize that
the intermission room is to gain time in the negotiation.
Unión por la Patria objected to them for that.
"Where is the law being discussed?" exclaimed
Germán Martínez
, head of bench K. "After 11 hours of session, the majority opinion does not appear and since we do not know what Law we are discussing, the session is suspended until tomorrow. Never seen," complained
Leandro Santoro.
At the beginning of the day, UP had also moved for the project to return to debate in committee, but they lost the vote by 149 negative votes to 103 affirmative votes.
The first session of La Libertad Avanza (LLA) had a stoic
Martín Menem
leading almost straight away.
He rose on rare occasions and for a short time.
Deputies Massot, Ritondo, Santilli and Lombardi with Guillermo Montenegro.
Photo: Marcelo Carroll.
Meanwhile, the UCR and Hacemos Coalificación Federal blocks - led by
Miguel Ángel Pichetto
- are conducting negotiations on key issues:
privatizations, biofuels, security, PAIS tax.
The ruling party announced that it would eliminate this last point, as would the changes in the fishing law and the article that allowed the assets of the Sustainability Guarantee Fund to be transferred to the Treasury.
However, the governors want to reinsert it and stipulate that it can be shared.
Although the arrival of a government delegation, headed by Karina Milei
, was expected
on the night of this Wednesday edition, the only national official in the presidential office was the vice chief of staff,
José Rolandi
, who reports to
Nicolás Posse
and is link with all ministries.
Controversies
Privatization is the most controversial chapter, which we will see on Wednesday night
.
This is an LLA emblem and they are not willing to hand it over.
The toughest sectors of radicalism began to demand that the ruling party be winked on this issue and are exploring intermediate options.
Although the ruling party agreed to remove YPF from the list of 41 companies and that other companies, such as Arsat, Nucleoeléctrica and Banco Nación, could not be 100% privatized but could become joint ventures, the point at which the agreement is blocked has to do with with the mechanism that is going to be implemented so that there is approval from Congress.
Cecilia Moreau speaks with Martín Menem.
Photo: Juano Tesone.
The current project establishes that the deputies already leave all the companies on the list "subject to privatization" and Milei is authorized to move forward with its sole signature when it decides.
The opposition first asked for "law by law", but now they are evaluating "strengthening the bicameral privatization committee", a commission that has had a very bad reputation since the time of Menemism.
"All the legislators of that bicameral became millionaires
," several recalled.
They devise options to make it more transparent and active.
Another option is to enable no more than 10 or 14 companies to be privatized that can be agreed upon.
They take as a basis the reduced list of the Civic Coalition.
But another article of concern is that of delegated powers.
The six deputies of the Civic Coalition announced from the outset that
they would vote against.
At the venue, the radical
Facundo Manes
gave a strong speech that announced his rejection and it is estimated that he could drag another group of 7 or 8 with him.
"Do not count on us for extraordinary powers. The freedom you proclaim is a false freedom, without fraternity or equality. It is a freedom that is born from fanaticism, not from dialogue of agreement. This is not modern capitalism, it is right-wing anarcho-populism with a lack of humanism," said Manes.
For these controversial articles, the benches may end up decreeing freedom of action.
Also in security, where although the article of disagreement that stated that a meeting of more than 30 people was illegal was eliminated, there are clashes over the article of legitimate defense.
The problem is that if the losses escalate, the hard opposition -Unión por la Patria together with the left add up to 106 votes- could end up prevailing.
Deputy K Carlos Heller.
Photo: Juano Tesone.
“This is the new beginning of the country with real incentives to be free citizens and have prosperity as a society.
Alberto Fernández for less, they delegated more powers to him.
This project is controversial for those who want to take care of their privileges," defended
José Luis Espert,
at the start.
The Federal Innovation bloc - of 9 members - chaired by
Pamela Caletti
, also clarified their differences in particular.
"The project proposes the declaration of emergency in a series of very broad matters and with the delegation of very vague powers," she said.
Although there are continuous talks with the dialogue blocs, the tension that has been accumulating for more than a month of negotiations was reflected in the speeches.
"Those who call us coimeros go somewhere else because 27 times we proposed that the president and the Minister of the Interior come," said Nicolás Massot, from We Make Coalition and attacked Milei: "With
one hand he 'liked' a publication that he branded us as Kirchnerists and with the other he signed the resolution that appointed Daniel Scioli
as an official in his Cabinet.”
Meanwhile, the head of the UCR block,
Rodrigo de Loredo,
stated: “This text that we are going to discuss on the premises has nothing to do with the one sent by the Executive.
It is the result of brutal, untimely, supportive and cooperative work of blocks like ours that had to deal with and get out of the crossfire, reciprocal extortion, grievances on one side and the other to build a reasonable, balanced option. and fair.”
Secured votes
As Clarín said, LLA has
sufficient numbers to generally approve the law.
If there is perfect attendance, with the Libertad Avanza bench and the Carolina Píparo bloc (39), the PRO plus allies (39), the UCR (34), the bulk of the We Make Federal Coalition and Federal Innovation bloc (30) , the two from San Juan and the three from Tucumán who respond to Governor Osvaldo Jaldo, the ruling party would comfortably exceed 140 votes.
The Frente de Todos (99), the Left (5) - which will mobilize Congress in rejection - the 2 Santa Cruz residents and the 2 Santa Fe socialists will vote against.