On this Monday afternoon, finally the president of the Chamber of Deputies,
Martín Menem
, finally appointed the
8 legislators
who will join the Bicameral Commission for Legislative Procedure, which is in charge of
reviewing the validity of the decrees of necessity and urgency
( DNU).
As expected, and in a move similar to that made by the president of the Senate,
Victoria Villarruel
, Menem appointed only three deputies from the UxP bloc to the bicameral: the massista
Ramiro Gutierréz
and the cristinistas
Carolina Gaillard
and
Vanesa Siley.
The UxP bench also demanded a seat for its own boss, the Santa Fe deputy
Germán Martínez
.
The Peronist bloc insists that instead of three,
it has four places on the commission
In recent days, pressure from the opposition had been growing for Menem to appoint the members of the bicameral, a body that has not functioned since last year.
Deputy Oscar Zago, in a soft jacket, on his bench.
Photo: AP.
Last week, the UCR bloc of the Senate sent a letter to Menem in which it demanded that he appoint "urgently and without further delay" the members of the bicameral commission of Necessity and Urgency Decrees, in an advance to deal the DNU of President
Javier Milei.
The Senate already had its 8 representatives in the Bicameral appointed since last year.
In a resolution dated this Monday, Deputies named the deputies who will join the commission:
Lisandro Almirón
(LLA),
Carolina Gaillard
(UxP),
Ramiro Gutiérrez
(UxP),
Hernán Lombardi
(PRO),
Nicolás Massot
(We Make Coalition Federal),
Francisco Monti
(UCR),
Vanesa Siley
(UxP) and
Oscar Zago
(LLA).
In addition to Gaillard, Gutiérrez and Siley, the UxP bench had proposed Germán Martínez from Santa Fe.
In the Peronist bloc they told
Clarín
on Monday afternoon:
"The robbery was completed. We are 99 deputies and we take 3 places. La Libertad advances with 38 and they take two
. "
And they completed: "They take one seat for every 19 deputies they have. We take one seat for every 33 deputies we have."
As a policy, the UxP bench placed Martínez in last place in case Menem cut the list and only appointed the first three.
He had already done the same with the proposals of deputies for other commissions.
Although there are still more than 100 DNUs pending treatment in the bicameral, the vast majority of them are
Alberto Fernández
's decrees that were left undiscussed, the main one being Javier Milei's mega DNU from last December on deregulation of the economy.
Mission: stop the opposition onslaught
To stop the attacks of the opposition, the ruling party seems to have surgically composed the commission, which brings together 8 deputies and 8 senators.
Thus, for Deputies there are three UxP deputies on one side and three pro-government deputies on the other (both from LLA and Lombardi, from the PRO).
The radical Monti, whom some in Congress see as quite close to the Government, and Nicolás Massot, from We Make the Federal Coalition, remain faithful to the balance.
On the senators' side, there are the three from UxP:
Teresa González
from Formosa and the campers
Mariano Recalde
and
Maribel Fernández Sagasti
).
On the other are the libertarian
Juan Carlos Pagotto
and potential allies
Luis Juez
and
Juan Carlos Romero
.
The radical Víctor Zimermann
and the dissident Peronist Carlos Espínola
appear as faithful in the balance
.
Deputy Ramiro Gutiérrez.
Photo: Maxi Failla.
Beyond the opposition pressures, the ruling party's rush to launch the bicameral is due to the fact that the opposition is close to achieving the number in the Senate to reject Milei's megadecree.
Regular sessions begin on March 1 and it will be difficult to stop an opposition advance.
Victoria Villarruel
could call this week to establish the bicameral.
Massista
Gutérrez
has already been working on the grounds for rejecting the decree.
In a work of more than 70 pages, he argues that the DNU advanced on the powers of Congress (in tax and criminal matters) and that there were also no extraordinary situations to advance with the decree.