2023-12-08 05:39:44
Javier Milei plans to request on Monday, on his first day in government, the opening of an extraordinary period of sessions to discuss an ambitious package of economic reforms that includes State cuts to reduce the fiscal deficit and contain inflation of more than 140%. .
La Libertad Avanza (LLA), Milei’s party, has only 40 of the 257 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and just seven of the 72 seats in the Senate.
Peronism, for its part, returns to the opposition as the leading force in both chambers, with 105 deputies and 33 senators, and appears as the biggest obstacle for the new government in the approval of laws, along with the five deputies from the left.
Among the allies that Milei will have in Deputies is the right-wing Pro party, of former president Mauricio Macri, with 40, and the centrist Radical Civic Union (UCR), with 35.
To a lesser extent, the centrist Civic Coalition (CC, 6) and a group of dissident Peronists and legislators from provincial parties (26) appear.
In the Senate, LLA will eventually have the support of the Together for Change bloc (24), the alliance made up of the Pro, the UCR and the CC since 2015, and negotiate with provincial forces (8).
The minimum quorum to meet and approve regulations in the lower house is 129 deputies and in the upper house is 37 senators.
In Argentina, deputies and senators are elected to represent a political party, but the seat is personal, which allows them to later join other blocs.
According to local legislative tradition, both chambers will be presided over by the LLA. Martín Menem, nephew of the late former president Carlos Menem (1989-1999), will be the head of Deputies, and Francisco Paoltroni of the Senate.
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