"There were some
support and voting commitments that were not fulfilled
. And it made no sense to move forward because the law lost its essence," said the Minister of the Interior, Guillermo Francos, this afternoon, accusing governors and supposedly "dialoguist" parliamentary blocs of vote with Peronism against a fundamental initiative for the ruling party.
The Government's decision to suspend the particular treatment of the Omnibus Law and return the debate to committee raises questions about the future of the project but also about the negotiation for the fiscal chapter that interested provincial leaders eager to increase the coffers of their districts.
"
We have nothing to deal with on the fiscal issue today: we will continue to govern with the elements we have
and obviously the governors will also have to continue governing with the elements they have," warned the head of the political portfolio, and
ruled out any modification in the short term. period of the Country tax which, he alleged, is valid until December 31.
In this context, the official raised questions about a future meeting with governors that, in his opinion, would not make sense "in this climate of confrontation."
With Javier Milei on tour in Israel, there were several libertarian spokesmen who came out to cross the opposition as a whole.
But the hardening of the official discourse had its greatest exponent in the tweet from the LLA institutional account: "
Treason pays dearly and La Libertad Avanza is not going to allow the governors to extort the people to maintain their privileges. The Base Law returns to commission".
Also overwhelming was the message from the
President's Office
account that directly accused "
the governors of destroying the Bases law
, article by article, hours after agreeing to accompany it.
They decided to turn their backs on the Argentines to protect their interests
." that "the law will be debated when they understand that it is the people who need it, not the Government."
From Casa Rosada, meanwhile, Francos, one of the negotiators with the dialogue opposition, was in charge of giving a political response to the first political defeat of the ruling party.
When asked what factor caused the suspension of the legislative debate, the minister stated that there was a failure to comply with what was previously agreed with opposition leaders.
"
I think there have been differences among some governors
, who complained that the collection of co-participating resources had fallen because in the previous government the Profit chapter was lowered. We proposed to deal with the fiscal issue especially after approving this law. It is a shame that we have not been able to approve it now, I think there were several waiting for its approval," he emphasized.
In this sense, Francos said that the ruling party had left aside thorny issues such as the fiscal chapter and some delegations of powers to the President that generated suspicion in the opposition but "
even so, no progress could be made. We see that there is an intention to obstruct the action of the Government. We are clear that from the Unión por la Patria sector this is the case, but we thought that other blocks were going to accompany us as they had expressed publicly."
He then warned that "we assumed that the delegations in general were going to be approved as delegations have been given to all governments in emergency situations. It has been cited in all the House speeches that there have been delegations of powers on several occasions and this "The government has not wanted to give it to them. Therefore, we will continue to govern with the popular support that we have and without the Parliament that we do not have, but we will continue to govern the same."
In this regard, he asked "
what is the point of declaring an emergency if they do not then provide the instruments to deal with it"
, when referring to the rejection of the articles that authorized the Executive to interfere in tariff issues or in the reform of the State.
The official maintained that "the policy does not echo what the Argentine people voted for. Society voted for a change and the leadership does not validate it. That is the big dispute."
The official
did not rule out that the President makes use of "constitutional powers" and calls for a popular consultation
, as he had done during the campaign, or makes use of decrees of necessity and urgency.
When asked what he attributed the attitude of the opposition blocs in the lower house to, Francos concluded that "
for now I am left with (a need to) obstruct. It seems to me that there has been a political position from various sectors that did not allow progress. "