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You will know his voice, he will soon go to Congress to give his report
," was the phrase used by an influential political sword of the President this week to reject opposition criticism and pressure due to the silence of the influential Chief of Staff. ,
Nicolás Posse
, who in just over three months of administration accumulates power and, for example, will be in charge of the eventual privatization of public companies.
In Casa Rosada, in this way, they try to calm the anxiety of the opposition parliamentary leaders who have been
demanding the presence of the coordinating minister in Parliament
whom, for example, they had summoned, without success, to provide explanations in the eventful debate of Omnibus law.
The fate of a large part of the State reform that the Government is trying to implement, which contemplates the granting of "deficient" signatures, will depend on the approval of the text of this recycled regulation.
"We have been in government for almost 100 days and we still do not know the voice of the Chief of Staff. He has to comply with the Constitution,"
Germán Martínez
, head of the Union for the Homeland Deputies block, told this newspaper
, recalling that the official "He did not want to come" to the venue to explain the so-called Bases Law but neither did he want to defend the mega DNU before the bicameral legislative process commission.
The opposition pressure occurs within the framework of the parliamentary fight and in the midst of the fall of Milei's DNU in the Senate.
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The Spokesman said that it is not the Government that has to make a self-criticism for the rejection of the DNU in Congress.
Meanwhile, the head of the Civic Coalition bloc,
Juan Manuel López López,
conceded that the official has not delayed his visit to Parliament because the procedure is usually completed during the ordinary sessions and it has not yet been a month since they began.
He did say that he has "many questions" to ask you, such as those related to the requests for reports presented by the alleged relationship with official insurance during the previous government and the validity of the link between public organizations with Nación Seguros, the fiscal responsibility regime. or the operation of trusts and cooperating entities.
In principle, the Chief of Staff had an intention to go to the Lower House, but due to the characteristics of an official who comes from the business world and
who is also "parsimonious" in treatment, as recognized by the ruling party itself,
it is not ruled out. the upper house where there are only 72 legislators and the exchanges are not usually so hostile.
An official who works close to Posse acknowledged that next week they will surely define the schedule for the chief of staff's visit to Parliament given that they must request questions from the legislators about 20 days before the session.
"He is an intelligent person, he will respond firmly and will not give in to the chicanery," he defended
him.
The thing is that in other areas of the Government they fear that Posse will be the target of dialectical shrapnel from the different opposition blocs.
"He is going to have a bad time. He is monosyllabic"
when expressing himself, acknowledges an LLA legislative source consulted.
The Government maintains that
Posse
has not incurred a delay in its presentation to Congress either.
As an example, they cite the background of the last chiefs of staff in this process.
According to an official survey,
Marcos Peña
waited 4 months and 17 days to give his first management report, in this case, in the Chamber of Deputies;
Santiago Cafiero
had to face the Covid pandemic and took 6 months and 8 days to report to the senators;
Juan Manzur
, 8 months and 19 days and also opted for the Upper House, while
Agustín Rossi
, took a month and 13 days to appear in the Deputies, within the framework of a brief administration in which he was also anointed as a candidate for vice president. .