The omnibus law has faltered due to lack of support and will have to start afresh

Miley’s omnibus law will have to be debated again in the committees of the Chamber of Deputies. That is, it returns the entire parliamentary process to zero, as if nothing had been discussed in these weeks since December 27, when the initiative was formally registered. This is a major failure for the government of Javier Miley, who has been president for almost two months and still does not have the legislation with which he proposes to make changes to the state.

The decision to return to committee the omnibus law was taken by the Chamber of Deputies this Tuesday afternoon. Miley’s party used the term “betrayal” to refer to the attitude of opposition factions with which the ruling party was negotiating: “Betrayal comes at a high price and La Libertad Avanza allows governors to extort money from the public. Will not allow their privileges. Aadhaar law comes back to committee,” was the text published by the extreme right party.

The head of the La Libertad Avanza bloc, Deputy Oscar Zago, blamed the so-called ‘dialogue’ blocs in front of the press, saying that they had voted on things different from what had been previously negotiated.

Voting on articles began this Tuesday, after the project was generally approved last Thursday. The return of the project to the committees means, institutionally, that the process starts from scratch (if it starts at all) and, politically, a very difficult defeat for the President of the nation, who is highly- Rules in minority. Furthermore, it highlights the inability of the national government to reach compromises with the opposition and raises questions about the future of the Meili administration.

law giving him superpowers

The thing is that the omnibus law gave him superpowers to make decisions from the Casa Rosada on various matters without having to go through Congress or the usual administrative channels and, in addition, it allowed the privatization of about 30 state companies, which was one of the workhorses of the state. chairman.

The original project was very ambitious and very heterogeneous: it contained 664 articles and covered everything from profound electoral reform to small things such as the fact that judges had to wear togas. Its authorship (like the super-DNU of regulation of the economy, against which judicial cautions rain down) was attributed to Federico Sturzenegger, an economist who, surprisingly, has no formal position in the current executive branch. But those who have have already become part of the governments of Mauricio Macri and Fernando de la Rúa.

Of the number of articles that were in the omnibus bill, 386 remained – a reduction of 42% – because the opposition forced a large number of amendments during these weeks of negotiations and because the Economy Minister, Luis Caputo, decided to remove them two Fridays ago. All fiscal measures in the text. However, the editorial staff still retained a number of points with which the dialogue opposition – without whose support the ruling party cannot approve anything – continued to disagree.

In fact, the motion to return to committee and the adjournment of the session occurred after the fourth 15-minute recess (which ended in 45 minutes) was requested to negotiate the privatization chapter and several votes on articles were rejected. Due to lack of support.

The Plenary Session approved giving the President superpowers to manage the regulation of the economy and deepening the disintegration of the state proposed by his omnibus law. But in the next paragraph, when the details of these superpowers were voted on, they placed strong limits on economic, energy and security matters.

“We ask the ruling party to have some flexibility, they like to keep losing. Try to see how to get the offer and win. You have to win, you don’t have to lose,” Pichetto said; A preview of the fall coming a few minutes later.