The ruling party had a stumble this Thursday in the Senate. He planned to activate six commissions, but
two fell due to lack of quorum
. It was known that Kirchnerism would not attend - as a form of protest for the places that, they say, "robbed" them - but
there were absences of allies from Santa Cruz and Río Negro
who gave it the final blow.
The marathon of meetings was scheduled from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The
Labor Commission
, which was the first on the list, revealed the conflict. Two members were missing to achieve a quorum: Mónica Esther Silva from Rio Negro and José María Carambia from Santa Cruz.
The same thing happened with the
Agriculture Commission
. He fell due to Silva's absence.
The most curious thing is that they were seen in Congress. That is, they were there but they did not go.
Both respond to their governors, at war with the Casa Rosada. Two days ago the president of Santa Cruz, Claudio Vidal, declared: "Without resources, neither the basic law nor the May Pact will be followed."
This same Thursday, his Rio Negro counterpart, Alberto Weretilneck, uploaded a video of him alone speaking to the camera, in which he raises the
"negative impact" of the libertarian administration
.
"It is clear that the situation in the province is very critical and that we have a lot of uncertainty ahead of us, that the Government's permanent attacks on the provinces do not stop, and therefore, we must be very careful and cautious so as not to repeat old crisis stories. "He noted in the video, in which he assures that he stopped receiving "more than 50 billion pesos of the transfers that correspond to us through co-participation."
The idea was to put together these 6 commissions within the 18 that Victoria Villarruel left formed via resolution last week, without waiting for Unión por la Patria to designate the name of its own.
As
Clarín
said , UxP assures that due to proportionality it has more places and that they were not offered presidencies. For this reason, they did not even send the names of who will be their representatives on each commission and this Thursday they did not attend the meetings.
Although UxP is the interblock with the most members (33), the vice president made an agreement, as soon as she assumed it, with the UCR, PRO and federal blocks to form a circumstantial majority of 39 members precisely to share the majority of the places. in commissions and presidencies.
Kirchnerism even threatens to build a sufficient majority in the chamber to
vote again on the criteria for forming commissions and turn that reality around
. But for that they must wait for the first session, which still has no date and no agenda on the door, and they need to get at least four more wishes. With the Santacruceños and the Rio Negro they already have three.
The commissions that managed to form
With just enough, a quorum was reached to form four commissions
. Federal Co-participation of Taxes and National Economy, Internal Security and Drug Trafficking and Tourism that were chaired by all radicals: Víctor Zimmermann, Pablo Blanco and Carolina Losada and Mariana Juri.