Amid
cross-complaints
, the Chamber of Deputies still has not appointed its members to the
Bicameral of Legislative Procedures
that must deal with Javier Milei's mega DNU.
There are 16 members: 8 senators and 8 deputies.
The
senators are already elected but the deputies are not yet
because there is an open dispute between the ruling party and the Unión por la Patria (UP) bloc over the number of members that correspond to Kirchnerism.
As
Clarín
said , UxP claims that it has 4, but the ruling party says that there are 3.
This Wednesday, the head of Deputies, Martín Menem, sent a letter to the head of the UxP bench, Germán Martínez, to demand that he give up on that idea and elect its three members.
"According to the number of members of your block (99) over the total of the Chamber (257), it corresponds to 38.52%. That percentage over eight members implies the amount of 3.08," Menem's letter details. .
In a more political tone,
he blames him for the delay
: "Continuing to delay the formation of such an important commission due to its insistence on maintaining a disproportionate political representation produces a serious injury to the right of this Congress to properly exercise its function as controller" of the DNU.
In turn, he tells him that if he does not send him the three names as soon as possible, he will be "unfortunately forced" to delete one of them.
The truth is that this was already contemplated by Unión por la Patria, which some time ago sent the names of its members, putting the head of the block himself, Germán Martínez, in last place, so that in any case they would leave him out and not another benchmate.
"If he wants to form it, he takes out the last member, as he did to integrate the other commissions in which we also had differences of criteria and he hitchhiked the last ones," they had pointed out.
The fact is that the bench rejects the possibility of resigning a member.
"He wants to rob a bank and he wants us to help him
," they complain.
The same discussion had existed in the Senate.
UP had sent four names and Victoria Villarruel left out Silvia Sapag, for being the "newest" senator compared to the rest of the applicants.
Pressures grow for the treatment of the DNU
While
Kirchnerism insists in the Senate with a special session to directly vote on its rejection
this Thursday, the UCR - with its president Martín Lousteau at the head - demands the head of Deputies, Martín Menem,
to designate the deputies who are going to integrate the Commission.
The centenary party sent a letter to Menem on Monday pointing out that the delay
"can no longer be attributed to inexperience in office or bureaucratic times"
and requests that he name
"urgently and without further delay"
the deputies who They are going to join the commission.
Menem responded and fired at the UCR: "There is so much talk about the Bicameral and they
have not opened their mouths for quite some time
. Alberto Fernández's decrees have not passed through there. The commission was not functioning for a long time," he assured and also noted. against Lousteau. “
There are people who sign that note who have nothing to do with it, like Lousteau, who is a senator
. ”
Regarding the Bicameral, he assured that "
surely the bicameral will be established and start working
."
"We have been having other obligations during all this time and in addition there was no agreement in the UP block (Unión por la Patria) that has to send 3 names and has sent 4.
I already reiterated to the head of the block (Germán Martínez) to send the 3 names because the other five are already there
," he justified.
This Wednesday, Lousteau also came out to answer him.
"I am amused by the response of the president of Deputies who says that I have nothing to do with it: first, the senators are waiting to debate the DNU, second, I am a citizen president of a party and all its authorities demand the same thing and furthermore any citizen has the right to say constitute the Commission because
you are failing in your duties
,” he stated.
In the Senate, meanwhile, Unión por la Patria considers the discussion about the Bicameral to be old.
The DNU Law establishes that the commission has 10 business days to process the decrees once they are issued and that after that period, any of the chambers can vote on it directly on the premises.
For this reason, the UP bloc of the Senate released a document this Wednesday in which they point out that "the UCR's request for an eventual call to the Bicameral commission" to discuss the mega DNU "constitutes a
delaying maneuver that is functional to the strategy to keep it in force".
Letter from the Union for the Homeland bloc of the Senate.
"It is time to address the decree in the venue and for each political actor to assume its position in the face of society,
in the face of the consequences that it already generates in the lives of Argentine men and women," they stated in the text.
However, Vice President Victoria Villarruel, who already avoided calling the session requested weeks ago, is moving to kick the decision again.
"Kirchnerism has to understand that there is a change of era. Argentines chose a path. And the Senate agenda is no longer dictated by Kirchnerism, but by dialogue and the participation of all senators," he had responded through a video days ago.