A day after reestablishing a
bridge with the northern governors
regarding the legislative agenda, Interior Minister
Guillermo Francos
is looking for
communicating vessels with
provincial leaders who until now had been elusive to shield the Executive's projects in Congress.
The political minister -
firm as a "statue curler
", according to the sayings of Javier Milei - received the senator for Neuquén
Lucila Crexell
in his office this Wednesday .
The legislator had been very critical of the libertarian management and in January decided - in agreement with Governor
Rolando Figueroa -
to form a monobloc to defend the interests of her province.
Before, he broke the Cambia Federal block chaired by
Juan Carlos Romero
from Salta .
Crexell attacked the Government for the failure of the
Omnibus Law
and recalled, in the face of the President's permanent grievances, that the Legislative Branch
can remove the president
.
At the end of December he had anticipated that the Mega-DNU that the President sanctioned could sink in Congress.
“There is a high probability that
this fact that a DNU was never turned around could be turned around.
It was like when Macri appointed the two ministers of the Court by decree,” compared the former senator from the Neuquén Popular Movement and JxC.
In the Government they believe that Crexell's votes in the Upper House are worth double precisely due to the parity between the votes that the ruling party and the opposition can gather, just when Kirchnerism gathers friends to overturn the DNU and the ruling party has just put into office the bicameral commission.
Crexell, who had approached JxC in 2019 with Miguel Pichetto, had campaigned for Patricia Bullrich.
However, in the runoff she supported the candidacy of
Sergio Massa
.
Figueroa, on the other hand, is a friend of the former Minister of Economy and supported him since the general elections.
Critical of the libertarian, Figueroa until now remained more distant than his peers from Chubut and Santa Cruz,
Ignacio Torres and Claudio Vidal
, whom the Government tempted with the possibility of reversing YPF contracts in areas that were not finally exploited, an alternative which could also serve Neuquén.
However, the Neuquén president has so far tried a more composure silence than that of his neighbor, the governor of Río Negro
Alberto Weretilneck
.
The northern governors who met with the minister on Tuesday repeat that Francos did not ask them for anything, but they acknowledged that Victoria Villarruel, who was also in Salta, repeated to them that she wants to "be on good terms with the senators and the governors."
Some of the provincial executives point out that not all of their deputies respond to them.
"Politics is no longer linear. Not even they could secure Carolina Píparo's vote," a governor apologized.
The provincial leaders who met with Francos asked the Government to
generate the necessary consensus
before discussing the entire or separate omnibus law again.
Tucuman
Osvaldo Jaldo
, who was quick to break the UxP bloc in Congress in a nod to the ruling party, described the meeting with Francos as a first step for the Executive to normalize the link with the governors.
"These may be the first steps for the Government to begin to iron out differences with the provinces. Congress has to enact the laws that the President needs but that provide that reciprocity so that we have the financial resources that the provinces need," said the president. tucumán.
One day after Francos' visit to the north, the Government convened the national teachers' joint meeting that the President had assured that he would not call.
Five days after JxC governors to interact hand in hand with the President, without intermediaries, a
shot at elevation to the role of Francos and Santiago Caputo
, Carlos Sadir from Jujuy finally attended the banquet organized by Sáenz.
In the bloc of provincial leaders, Cambiomitas reduced its relevance.
"We are all going to receive the minister if he comes to our provinces. Our proposal has to do with presenting our agenda to the President as a unified bloc," explained a source involved.
In JxC they interpreted Luis Caputo's promise to discuss the pending fiscal chapter and the omnibus law as a nod to his demands.