After a high-voltage Tuesday in Congress, where the ruling party suffered a
severe setback
after the return to committee of the Omnibus Law by failing to obtain the approval of some articles in particular, leaders from different political spaces
raised the temperature of the networks social groups
expressing their respective positions in this situation.
Some, poetic like
Esteban Bullrich
, were inclined to cite the title of a well-known literary work by Gabriel García Márquez to illustrate the context.
"
A Chronicle of a Death Foretold
.
Mr. President
, please do not despise politics,
” the former legislator wrote on X, formerly
.
Others, for example, the representative
Margarita Stolbizer
, appealed to irony.
“
They melted the Bus.
They didn't know how to drive, they left without brakes
and they wanted to put all the gears together.
Initial error: not sending laws by topic.
Do not prioritize changes in the economy to lower inflation.
"Not dialogue or accept aid," questioned one of the representatives of the We Make Federal Coalition bloc, which had already voted
against the law in general
.
In any case, although he described the fall of the session in Congress as a “failure,” he clarified that “it can never be a turn back.”
“
We must not give another chance to Kirchnerism
that did so much damage to the country.
An alternative would be, moderated with a progress project, it must begin to emerge in the short term,” Stolbizer remarked.
Through a statement from the Office of the President, the Government made its vision clear with a strong warning.
“Under this mandate, (Milei) will not allow those who
have benefited from a corrupt and impoverishing system for years
to frustrate the fruits of all Argentines,” the first paragraph of the text read.
He also charged against the governors who “made the decision to destroy” the Omnibus Law article by article, “hours after agreeing to accompany it.”
“They decided to turn their backs on the Argentines
to protect their interests,” he questioned, always referring to the provincial leaders.
“The Law
will be debated when they understand
that it is the people who need it, not the Government,” he concluded.
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— Office of the President (@OPRArgentina) February 6, 2024
Mauricio Macri
spoke in the same direction
.
The former president pointed out that, as happened during his administration, between 2015 and 2019, “a part of the politician that said it was committed to making a different Argentina, votes against when arriving at the venue.”
“
Prevents, blocks and goes back
.
But don't give up: the vast majority of Argentines are with the change, although some still insist on ignoring them," he added, before mentioning a political context with "lack of conviction, intellectual dishonesty and lack of values."
For his part, the Minister of Economy,
Luis Caputo
, considered that “whether or not the law is voted on will not change the economic course.”
“We are not going to spend more than we collect.
And the Central Bank is not going to finance the treasury,” he warned, and said that the Government is “
doing what is appropriate
.”
"That is what will guarantee that the problems of the last 20 years will not happen again. Let's not dramatize what happened today. We all know that there are
a handful of legislators who want everything to remain the same
, even though the people voted for a change" said the head of the economic portfolio.
Rodríguez Larreta, with spiked caps: “Long live consensus, damn it!”
How much less surprising was the message that
Horacio Rodríguez Larreta
chose to refer to this issue.
The former presidential candidate, who lost in the PASO against Patricia Bullrich, resorted to one of Javier Milei's favorite phrases, with a slight but no less important difference: "Long live consensus, damn it!"
“Many Argentines agree with the need for profound change.
For this, 3 things are needed, equally important: clear ideas, consensus so that ideas become laws, and management so that laws become facts,” mentioned the former head of the Buenos Aires government.
And he added: “Both
consensus and management
are values that
this Government despises
.”
A new Argentina is not created by imposing or threatening, it is created by listening, dialoguing and, above all, always close to the people.
It is not with slogans or demagoguery, it is with management.
It's not with improvisation, it's with planning.
— Horacio Rodríguez Larreta (@horaciorlarreta) February 7, 2024
Patricia Bullrich picked up the gauntlet
in statements to
LN+
.
“Change was prevented so many times in Argentina and Kirchnerism trampled on minorities, and now that it was possible to unite wills and achieve something that was neither everything that the Government wanted nor what the
sectors that Rodríguez Larreta just represented
wanted ,
“They end up joining Kirchnerism to undermine the Government
,” stated the Minister of Security.
Then, he asked himself: “
Do you want there to be a change of government now?
Is that what they are looking for?
They are going to meet me.”
“I'm not giving up,” she warned.
For his part, the president of the PRO bloc in Deputies,
Cristian Ritondo
, highlighted that "the
impeding machine
once again wants to maintain the model of poverty and stagnation."
“We are firm for real change,” he clarified.
José Luis Espert
, meanwhile, aimed heavy ammunition against “the damned Kirchnerism, its collectors and its accomplices, always destituents.”
“
They want us Argentines to continue living in shit
, they just enjoy
their business like sheikhs
.”
To the enemies of freedom, NOT JUSTICE,” indicated the Avanza Libertad deputy.
In addition, one of the five governors targeted by Milei for the setback that the project suffered in the article-by-article vote, the Peronist
Martín Llaryora
, said that “
Argentina needs the law
,” but he said that the project “must continue its treatment through of dialogue, consensus and
mutual respect
.”
#Argentina needs the law, so its treatment must continue through dialogue, consensus and mutual respect.
#DefendingCórdoba
— Martín Llaryora (@MartinLlaryora) February 7, 2024
His Santa Fe counterpart,
Maximiliano Pullaro
, wrote that “the change that Argentina needs requires decision and courage, but it also requires respect.”
“Respect for the productive interior, which Kirchnerism always expropriated.
Respect for the institutions, which Kirchnerism always dominated, and respect for our people,
not shouting at them, as Kirchnerism always shouted at them
,” he highlighted.
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