The Basic Law began with a stumble in the Senate. Peronism denounced that there were “changes” in the project that came from deputies and requested its nullification.

The debate on the Aadhaar law in the Senate started becoming complicated for the ruling party. In addition to the inconsistencies in the vote on the tobacco tax, there were also findings made by the Union pour la Patria in Deputies regarding the half-approved amendments to two articles that had reached the Upper House: “We don’t know what text we are going to vote on”Senator Juliana Di Tullio said. Meanwhile, Martin Menem sent a “Errata” To correct the “errors” that Sylvia Sapag from Neuquén called “Small Paper”, They already talked in La Rosada “A typing error.” Amid the chaos, fellow opposition blocs also added their doubts about several articles – the fiscal package – raising concerns among libertarians over the possibility that many of them will be rejected or modified.

Partly for this reason, Libertad Avanza will not even be able to comply with the ambitious program that was proposed for the issuance of an opinion this Thursday – the day of the general strike called by the CGT and the two CTAs –. block of Union for MotherlandFurthermore, he lined up and asked to extend the call to demonstrators (so far only members of the government were planned), which was supported by the former governor of Salta and ruling party ally, Juan Carlos Romero (Cambio Federal. ) was supported. ,

The motion was joined by Edgardo Cuidar of Entre Ríos (federal unit), who is president of the Commission on Constitutional Affairs. While radicals Martín Lousteau, Maximiliano Abad and Pablo Blanco demanded that the deputy chief of staff, José Rolandi, not rush into a session to approve laws during the meeting, the Bloc of UCR senators was alone with the official.

Di Tullio even announced that he would make an official request to call a plenary session of the labor unions: Representatives of the CGT and the two CTAs (workers and autonomous) and the International Labor Organization (ILO) to express their opinions on the labor reform contained in the Base Law. Representatives of the three union centers later met the UXP bench in the Senate, where they expressed their disapproval of the government project.

Tobacco and “Errata”

The Plenary Session of the General Legislative, Constitutional Affairs and Budget and Finance Commissions was held in the Blue Room (the largest in the Senate), in which national government officials were seated to defend the government’s project: the Minister of the Interior, Guillermo Franco, and Vice Chief of Staff, José Rolandi, Secretary of the Treasury, Carlos Guberman, and Secretary of Regulatory Strategic Planning of the Presidency, María Ibarzábal Murphy.

But the start of the debate began to change the tone of the officials, who at times engaged in retaliation with opposition senators.

“A claim has been made by the block officials. First, because of the text that reached the Senate, which contains errors regarding the difference between what was voted on in the Senate and what we have from the record entry. This is important because one word in an article changes everything. “We are concerned about this because if indeed this was an error, it makes remediation impossible until the deputies clarify what the issue is with the text and the vote because there are two deputies who said the votes were miscounted ,” questioned. Head of UXP Interblock, Jose Maynes.

The complaints came from his own UxP colleagues in the lower house. Delegates raised doubts over how the votes cast for including the tobacco tax in the Base Law were counted, with two abstentions counted as affirmative. The discovery about the opinions reaching the Senate and the differences on the text was made by Germán Martínez, head of the UXP in Deputies: “There are differences of opinion between the text that was communicated to the Senate and what the deputies voted for in the Chamber. This cannot be. And this is the cause of disability. We formally request that the communication to the Senate be cancelled,” he posted on the social network).

From the Casa Rosada, he tried to bridge the gap in text. “It is a small, administrative issue. It will be fixed today. It was nonsense, it did not get to the bottom of the issue and they are solving it,” presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni said without blushing.

“This is the first time that I have seen this happening in such a significant legislation that overrides the Constitution, that modifies economic, political and social relations where Congress is left out. We cannot accept that anyone modifies the will of the delegates and they come to us with another text, Senator Sapag said at the plenary session. “If we deal with this bill and it comes with the validity of the original, it can be declared unconstitutional. If the vote was wrong, then what we are going to discuss now has no validity. What is happening is very serious. I demand a fourth intermission,” demanded Sergio Levi (UXP) from Salta.

Liberal Bartolomé Abdalla of Puntaño, who is president of the General Legislative Commission and head of the plenary session, found the ideal gap between the questions and gave the floor to Francois, who commented on his presentation without making any mention of the controversy.

heated debate

But Franco was in charge of igniting the debate. “Javier Miley faces the worst crisis of all democracy.” The government’s political minister said, “They got a Central Bank without even a single dollar, inflation was absolutely out of control despite the measurement methodology and excessive issuing.”

“We do not agree at all with what the minister said; Here we have to give the data,” Mayans went to the square and rebuked that “You are basing laws on data which is wrong.” The senator from Formosa reminded them that the government had caused a 120 percent devaluation of the currency and a decline in employment. , has blamed Miley for the loss of purchasing power of pensions and the contradictions arising with the full liberalization of prices and the limits imposed on pay equalities.

Questions also came from the dialogue senators. Buenos Aires Macrista Guadalupe Tagliaferri (PRO) called for the elimination of Article 163, the controversial section of the Bases Law Project, which declares “absolutely null and void” any provincial regulation opposing large investment promotion arrangements (RIGIs). , a claim that transcends all blocks. Rolandi acknowledged that he could accept change.

RIGI is a matter of concern for all provinces and was expressed throughout the debate. Lostau was one of the most critical and described it as “extremely generous” in terms of the benefits given to large investors. His fellow Chaco member Victor Zimmerman (UCR) expressed doubts about the criteria for selecting projects that the government will implement and what involvement the provinces will have in the investment selection process.

Criticism extended to the pension system, the delegation of legislative powers to the executive branch, and the possibility that the government would proceed with sweeping reforms of the state, privatization of companies, and dismantling of official organizations. The fiscal package, which will begin a separate discussion today in the Budget Committee, was also criticized in the Plenary meeting: Mónica Silva (JSRN) from Rio Negro was in charge of complaining from the Patagonian provinces over fears that it would have the opposite effect of imposing taxes on This will benefit the region, especially oil workers.

After more than five hours of debate, the officials’ faces reflected not only the fatigue of the day, but also the feeling that both projects might undergo changes and come back to the deputies. He heard dozens of objections, many of which came from dialogue areas whose position had accumulated (or had) all the optimism that was being wasted by the Casa Rosada.