The Minister of the Interior,
Guillermo Francos
, assured this Wednesday, after the Government's failure in its attempt to approve the
Omnibus Law
, that
he did not think about "taking a step aside"
, after rumors indicating that he was thinking about resigning in your charge.
Francos was the pillar in the negotiations of the ruling party with the dialogue deputies and the governors who finally rejected the key articles.
"I have never thought about stepping aside, it is not my position, I committed to the president to try to help in this administration. The President has his vision, sometimes we can disagree with some issue, with members of the team, but he is the one who has the resolution of the issues. Within that
I will continue to propose that the path of dialogue has to exist
and the path of understanding between the Executive Branch and Congress has to exist. Also with the provinces," the official remarked in dialogue with Network.
There they acknowledged that they knew that the situation in Congress for the Government was difficult as it had a minority bloc, but that they believed that "there was a majority" to deal with the articles in which there were still differences.
"The reality is that in a vote
the deputies who were supposed to support the law in particular treatment did not support it
, we have to work on that reality. We understood that there was support for the law that was not the case. There were differences in some articles , it is true; but we understood that there was a majority to deal with them. I insist, the issue is if an emergency law is being dealt with, first the entire law is voted on in general, then some reservations were made, then the first and second articles are approved where The economic emergency is established. Then in the fourth and fifth where the instruments are given and the delegations to deal with that emergency vote against, then clearly it
made no sense to continue with the treatment of the law
, because the instruments to power were not given. work on it," he said.
He also said, in tone with the statements of the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, that
"let's not worry so much about the law
," because the macroeconomic situation is improving noticeably and then with time the issues that, according to him, need to be addressed "to transform the reality of Argentines and generate what the law proposed, which was to open Argentina for investments, growth and development."
"At some point it will be achieved, we will try a little more," Francos added.
But he clarified that the way to achieve it
"is within what is established by the National Constitution
," using those instruments and "with dialogue with parliament" while continuing to seek consensus.
In any case, he left open the possibility that the changes that Milei intends come out through a
plebiscite
: "The popular consultation is one of the paths that the President has as a tool of the Constitution, he will be the one who decides, but he already He said during the campaign 'if the laws I need are not approved, I will use the popular consultation.'"
"For the moment he will continue governing with the instruments he has, we will continue trying to find a way to generate the transformation that the country needs," he reaffirmed.
And he did not close the door to a new agreement with the opposition.
"
We will have to sit down again
. One cannot ignore parliament, you have to sit with the legislators, sit with the representatives in the chamber of deputies and talk about the law that we need to carry out this transformation process, beyond the circumstance of the moment and the disappointment we have for not having been able to specify the law, I believe that the responsibility of a government is to try to find the mechanisms to do so. We will look for those paths.
"It is true that the country is going through a special situation where if we want to get started we need a change and we are convinced that in the last election people voted for a need for change both in us and in other political sectors that also raised it. Now, clearly, we have that
the legislators of those sectors did not support this project
. I understand that we have to talk and sit down to analyze the issue and talk with them to find a way, we cannot not find a way in a democratic system like the one we live in, try to pave positions and be able to advance," he concluded.