In the midst of their open war with governors and Congress after the failure of the Omnibus Law,
the Government confirmed that Javier Milei will speak in front of the Legislative Assembly on March 1, at the beginning of the ordinary sessions
.
In addition, the President will lead his first trip to a province.
On Monday he will travel to Corrientes, in his first excursion to a province since his presidential inauguration.
“In this case there is a protocol,” explained officials with an office in Casa Rosada
.
Strictly speaking, these are two articles of the National Constitution, article 99, paragraph 8, which determines that the head of state is in charge of opening the sessions "recommending for their consideration the measures that he deems necessary and convenient" and article 63, which establishes the start date and the power of the president to call extraordinary meetings.
In the previous one (inside and outside the Government),
there had been speculation about the possibility that Milei would repeat the gesture he had on the day of his inauguration
, when after receiving the attributes of command from Alberto Fernández and Cristina Kirchner To take the oath, he gave a speech with his back to the Legislative Palace.
In the ruling party, some leaders had even suggested the possibility that the President's message on March 1 could be broadcast by streaming and on a national network without the presence of the president in Congress.
A hostile Congress awaits Milei while he explores with Mauricio Macri the formation of an interblock of LLA and the PRO
.
The accusation against the deputies who voted against particular articles of the omnibus law burned bridges and much more the open war with governors due to the reprisals for the fall of the law that accelerated the removal of Transportation subsidies and the Government stopped rotating resources for the National Teacher Incentive Fund (FONID)
In the Senate, meanwhile, Peronism seeks to attract allies to lower the Mega-DNU and the radicals demanded that the head of Deputies Martín Menem designate once and for all the deputies who will make up the bicameral commission.
In this framework and while tweeting against the senator and head of the UCR, Milei will undertake his first trip to the interior since his inauguration, with the exception of his fleeting appearance in Bahía Blanca due to the storm on December 16 in Bahía Blanca that left 13 dead .
The President will travel to Corrientes, a district governed by Gustavo Valdés.
The radical governor was one of the provincial leaders most consistent with support for the Omnibus Law.
In La Rosada they have not yet confirmed or ruled out a meeting between the president and the governor who until December tried to challenge Martín Lousteau for the presidency of the UCR.
Milei for the moment only confirmed his presence at the celebrations for the tenth anniversary of Club Libertad, where he will be the main speaker.
The President identifies two of the five radical governors as traitors: Carlos Sadir from Jujuy and Maximiliano Pullaro from Santa Fe.
In advance of the confirmation of Milei's trip to Corrientes while the President attacks his co-religionists, the governor of Chaco Leandro Zdero shared an event on Wednesday at the Casa Rosada with the Minister of Security Patricia Bullrich and the Minister of Justice, Mariano Cúneo Libarona .
Valdés is the political godfather of the Chaco and represents a pole of power different from the Lousteau sector.
The Corrientes president, for now, remains silent.
Two days after his excursion to Corrientes, the President will embark with his sister, the Secretary General of the Presidency, on his trip to the United States, where he will participate for three days in the Conservative Political Action Conference, in Maryland, near Washington, where he will coincide with former president and Republican candidate Donald Trump and the re-elected Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele.
At this time, the Secretary of the US Department of State, Antony Blinken, of the Democratic administration of Joseph Biden, is deciding whether he will travel to Argentina.
In La Rosada for now they relativize the need for a hand-to-hand meeting between Macri and Milei.
“They talk all the time,” they maintain.