The provisional president of the Senate and legislator from La Libertad Avanza,
Bartolomé Abdala
, was "optimistic" in obtaining "the greatest number of votes" in the Upper House to sanction the Omnibus Law promoted by the Government of Javier Milei.
However,
he did not rule out that modifications could be introduced
that delay the approval of the project.
"I am optimistic that we will have the greatest number of votes to be able to sanction (the law), as far as possible respecting the result of the Chamber of Deputies. If not, it will return to that legislative body," warned the official senator for Saint Louis.
In statements to Radio Rivadavia, Abdala used a football analogy when saying that he would "like to achieve in the second half", in reference to the next treatment in the Senate, "the result obtained in the first" with what happened in the Chamber of Deputies. , which last Friday approved the basic project in general: 144 votes against 109, after three days of endless deliberations.
Now, the discussion in Deputies that went to an intermediate room until this Tuesday, will be the treatment of the initiative article by article;
since there are differences between the ruling party and the so-called dialogue blocks that must be overcome.
Among the topics to be discussed are privatizations, the Guarantee Fund and the sharing of Country Taxes, something that the governors have been fervently demanding.
In that sense, Abdala mentioned that it would be necessary
to "extend the period of extraordinary sessions"
, established by President Javier Milei, because he estimated that
only "on Monday, February 12"
would the Senate begin to form the commissions that will debate the regulations.
" The issue of extraordinary sessions
will have to be
extended until the end of February ," he assessed in the radio talk.
Meanwhile, he said that once the initiative reaches the Senate, some legislators will raise the need to introduce changes that, he maintained,
"if they are superior, we will have to listen to them
. "
"If this is the case, the law will return to the Chamber of Deputies. As a reference for the ruling party, I would like it to not undergo any modification (in the Senate) and become law," he assured.
Finally, Abdala was
against participating in the "Country" tax
, which has a 30 percent rate on transactions with foreign currency in the retail market.
It is one of the demands of the dialogue governors in the negotiation to support the law.
"If you make it shareable, you won't get it anymore," said the Puntano senator, and closed: "
The governors are little animals who spend
and when they see that they can get something more and bring water to their mill, they are going to do it."
With information from Télam