Miley loses second vote on omnibus legislation, returning to starting point
This Tuesday, Argentina’s President Javier Meili suffered his first blow in Congress, in the city of Buenos Aires. While everything was going smoothly for the ruling party in the Chamber of Deputies, its famous omnibus law was rejected in the legislative body on the very day article-by-article discussion of the bill was to begin. And it’s back to a clean slate, because it will be discussed again in committee, where it was two weeks ago. After more than a month of talks, The ruling party may not have received the support it thought it had assured,
The president, who is beginning his international tour in Israel that will continue through Italy, published a message that has been interpreted in Argentina as an acceptance of defeat. “Caste vs People”, has fired on his social network. And he added: «The race was against the change for which we Argentines voted in the election. “We know it will not be easy to change a system where politicians got richer at the expense of Argentines who get up to work every day.”
Subsequently, the President stated that he continued with the intention of carrying out his plan, despite the setbacks he had faced in recent weeks in both Congress and Justice: “We intend to continue our program with or without support. The political leadership that destroyed our country is leaving.
delegation of powers
Earlier, the Chamber of Deputies had approved, by 134 votes in favor to 119, the delegation of legislative powers to Meily for one year, for emergency situations in six areas (economic, financial, security, tariff, energy and administrative). , which could be extended to another. If the opposition had not counterattacked, he would have been allowed to approve his reforms without going through Congress.
subvert the law
While all Argentines were waiting this Tuesday for the bill that had been approved in general terms last Friday, which would be studied article by article in Congress, around 7 pm a big surprise occurred. The same block leader of the ruling Libertad Avanza party (LLA), Oscar Zago, requested a motion to discuss the project again in committees. Shortly thereafter, the institution’s president, Martin Menem, adjourned the session.
Speaking with local press, Zago blamed the governors: “(The project) came back to committee because there are representatives who promised to follow through with the governors and the governors did not keep their word.” Voices from the ruling party called the governors “traitors”.
It should be remembered that two weeks ago a phrase that the President said in a cabinet meeting against the governors was leaked to the Argentine press. “I’m going to leave you without a penny,” he might have expressed., After this information was revealed in the press, the President dismissed Guillermo Ferraro, the Minister of Infrastructure, who would have disclosed that information – always according to the local press.
The main disagreements between the national government and provincial governments relate to two aspects in particular: the sharing and privatization of the PAIS tax.
Although in the short time that Miley has been in the Casa Rosada, his initiative has already suffered several setbacks, the overturning of his ‘omnipotent law’ – the President’s Activist – was interpreted by the Argentine press as the main defeat suffered by the President Has been. faced since his investiture, which took place last December 10.