With the treatment of the reform law promoted by Javier Milei, the Casa Rosada opted for a
curious
strategy : that of
charging at two counters, the anti-politics counter and the political counter.
On the one hand, he daily lashes out at the dialogue opposition - the last one was the provisional president of the Senate, the libertarian
Bartolomé Abdala
, who called the allied governors “spending animals” - and on the other hand he seeks to negotiate with those same sectors the sanction of the law.
Up to this point the maneuver has worked for the ruling party, but there are
indications
that it could become complicated in the final stretch of the treatment of the omnibus law in Deputies.
The
public mistreatment has already tired several
moderate opposition deputies.
Also the lack of politics and intense work on the part of the ruling party.
"They came to ask us what our score was for the votes in favor of the project in our block. They are comical! It is their job, not ours," complained a deputy from a dialogue group.
That legislator recalled that, when his bloc was pro-government, they knew
“three days in advance”
how the vote on the entire articles of a project would turn out.
But within hours of the start of the session in Deputies, not only the number of votes is unknown but also the
very fine print
of the project.
Miguel Angel Pichetto and Nicolás Massot.
Photo: Federico López Claro.
Of the handful of articles that are still under negotiation, there are two that seem to overwhelm the moderate opposition deputies:
the privatization of public companies and the sharing of the PAIS Tax.
The Executive Branch shows no signs of wanting to negotiate with either of these two issues.
If not, the opposition says they have the number to
twist the
Government's arm and impose their criteria.
Last Friday, the opposition gave the Executive's envoys a
paper -
Nicolás Massot
, from the We Make the Federal Coalition bloc , worked on the proposal -
with how the privatization chapter should be worded.
The proposal incorporates a mechanism to
strengthen
the Bicameral of Privatizations, which obliges the Executive Branch to incorporate this commission in the sales process.
It will not be able to block the processes - a second approval of the privatization by the plenary session will not be required - but it will function as a "
tong detector",
according to the description of a representative.
The proposal talks about
privatizing 24 public companies
- in the original list there were 41 and for now there are 27 -, which are divided into four different lists: those of transportation, those of public means, those that have provincial participations, and the rest.
Rodrigo de Loredo, head of the UCR block.
Photo: Federico López Claro.
The ruling party
did not respond
to the proposal.
But in the opposition they warn that there is consensus between We Make the Federal Coalition - it is the bloc chaired by
Miguel Pichetto
- and the UCR that they will
only
vote on that proposal.
“If La Libertad Avanza does not vote for it, the entire privatization chapter will fall,”
they announce on one of the benches, up to this point, dialogueists.
Negotiation for two thirds
The other discussion that remains open is that of sharing a percentage of the PAIS Tax.
The Government flatly refuses.
If there is no agreement, the opposition threatens to move forward in any way with the tax reform.
This Monday the Minister of the Interior, Guillermo Francos, warned that if that happens, Milei
would veto
the article.
The proposal talks about privatizing 24 public companies;
They are even less than those that the Government had already accepted
Despite the official's warning, the dialogue blocks
are working on their own strategy.
They do the math and maintain that, in the event of a veto, they would be in a position to insist with two-thirds of the plenary sessions in both legislative chambers, which would confirm the article.
According to their calculations, all blocks except the PRO and LLA
would vote in favor
of sharing the tax.
In Peronism they confirmed to
Clarín
that there were conversations.
They trusted that two governors elected by JxC had contact with a key representative of Unión por la Patria to talk about the two-thirds.
The governors,
no matter their political color
, are concerned that the Casa Rosada, due to its adjustment policy,
put the brakes on discretionary transfers
to the provinces and the
loss of income
they suffered with the changes in the
Income Tax,
last year.
Máximo Kirchner in the session of Deputies.
Photo: Maxi Failla.
“If the Government does not want this to happen, it will have to do politics, work and offer some alternative,” an opposition leader warned Clarín
yesterday
.
In the next few hours everything will be defined.