In a climate of tension, Victoria Villarruel faces this Friday
the challenge of sustaining the alliance of 39 senators
to ratify the authorities of the Senate for the new legislative year that begins on March 1.
"Everything is on track
," the ruling party stated briefly after the Parliamentary Labor meeting that all the block heads had this Thursday with Villarruel.
However, they recognize that it is not going to be calm and fear that Kirchnerism will present a cataract of privilege issues to "spoil" the session.
"It should take five minutes, since only authorities are ratified. But it is going to be chaos.
Kirchnerism wants to invalidate everything
," declared Luis Juez, head of the PRO Front.
The main leaders of Unión por la Patria participated in the work meeting:
José Mayans, Juliana Di Tullio and Anabel Fernández Sagasti.
They refused to reveal their letters, although they announced that they will insist that the formation of the commissions is illegal and will ask to rediscuss it.
It is also obvious that
they will demand the three special sessions they requested
to reject Javier Milei's mega DNU in the venue and that Villarruel still refused to call.
They did not even announce who they will appoint for the vice presidency, which corresponds to Peronism and had been left vacant because they did not want to appoint her in December, although everything indicates that
they will nominate Silvia Sapag from Neuquén
, who has just been left out of the DNU Bicameral.
Sapag was the fourth applicant but Villarruel decided that due to proportionality,
Unión por la Patria had only three members
on that commission and because she was the legislator with the least seniority, he removed her from the list.
In December, in a strong move, the vice president managed to agree with all the opposition blocs to defeat Kirchnerism - which has the largest bench - and achieved the quorum and votes necessary to
impose the Senate authorities and retain control. of the commissions.
But the situation now is not the same: the fall of the omnibus law sowed tensions between the governors and the parties with the ruling party, which were fueled by
the grievances of President Javier Milei.
Added to this is the upcoming debate of the mega DNU, which also divides the blocks in their position towards the Government.
A plus: in La Libertad Avanza internal sparks arose to prevent Bartolomé Abdala from being ratified as provisional president.
The man from San Luis had been chosen for that place after Francisco Paoltroni from Formosa was displaced.
"Senseless fireworks";
they pointed out from the ruling party.
"Just rumors" they responded near Abdala.
In December,
the radical Carolina Losada was elected first vice president
and the senator for Córdoba Alejandra Vigo, wife of the former governor of Cordoba, Juan Schiaretti, was second vice president.
In turn, as administrative secretary, Villarruel proposed and managed to impose
María Laura Izzo
, an employee of the Ministry of Security.
As Parliamentary Secretary,
Agustín Giustinian
, a chamber employee who worked in the PRO block, and who was already close to Villarruel on the day of the legislators' swearing-in.
The preparatory session is a procedure established by regulation.
"On February 24 of each year or the immediately preceding business day if it is a holiday, the Senate meets in preparatory sessions in order to designate authorities and set the days and hours of ordinary sessions," the rule states.
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