Rejection of the mega DNU. New snub from Victoria Villarruel to Kirchnerism’s request for a sessionBy Gustavo Ybarra

The vice president Victoria Villarruel decided to take refuge in silence and generated a new peak of political tension in the Senate, by leaving without a response the new attempt by the Frente de Todos to force a special session in the upper house to reject the decree of necessity and urgency 70/23signed by Javier Miley in December of last year.

This is the second order that the Frente de Todos bloc does with the intention of dealing a political blow to the Government. The first was never answered by the vice president, which motivated the angry reaction of the bench chaired by José Mayans (Formosa) who, in a press conference, accused the vice president of failing to fulfill her duties as a public official.

“We are not going to call,” they confirmed in Villarruel’s surroundings. The snub caused the Kirchnerism reaction, who insisted on his idea that the Upper House deal with “the decree in the chamber” and demanded that the session be called to discuss the decree. “By not doing so, The vice president of the Nation fails to comply with the National Constitution, the law and the Regulations of the Chamber” of Senators.

In a brief statement of four paragraphs, the Frente de Todos described as a “delaying measure” the request of the UCR to establish the bicameral commission that must analyze the legality of the DNU and challenged the other opposition blocs to “assume their position in the face of society, in the face of the consequences that (the decree) already generates in the lives of Argentines.”

In this new request, made last week, the Kirchnerist bench requested a special session for this Thursday at 2 p.m. The note bore the signature of 32 of the 33 senators of the Frente de Todos. As happened on the previous occasion, with less than 24 hours until the expiration of the day and the time claimed by the opposition bloc, the president of the Senate still did not respond.

José Mayans with the Kirchnerist Anabel Fernández SagastiSilvana Colombo – LA NACION

Alert to the Kirchnerist offensive, Villarruel has been maintaining fluid contacts with representatives of the UCR and Pro blocks, as well as other minor groups, with the aim of ensuring that they will not join the move of the Frente de Todos and, incidentally, design a plan to deactivate the political time bomb that, you know, DNU 70/23 implies since it was sent to Congress by the Executive Branch.

However, the political tension in the Senate has been increasing since the breaking of relations between Milei and the dialogue opposition which involved the resounding failure of the so-called omnibus law and the subsequent reaction of the President against opposition deputies and governors.

In this context, The president of the Senate was at the crossroads of deciding whether to turn her back on the claim again. and be faced with Kirchnerism again or if he calls the session knowing that the rest of the opposition will not comply with the request, which would allow him to deal a hard political blow to the Peronist leadership of the Upper House by stating that, at least for now, he does not have the numbers to reject the DNU.

Whatever decision Villarruel makes will have repercussions on the functioning of the Senate in the immediate future. He Friday of next weekas planned but not yet official, are planned two sessions that will be fundamental for Villarruel, one, and for the Miilei Government, the other.

The first is the preparatory session in which the Upper House must elect its authorities. Villarruel managed to win a political victory on December 13 when he twisted the arm of the Frente de Todos bloc, which resisted moving forward with the replacement of the body’s leadership table. That day, the vice president gathered 39 votes, 32 contributed by the non-Kirchnerist opposition, and managed to appoint people she trusted in two key positions, such as the Administrative and Parliamentary secretariats.

The last session of the Senate, last December 13Santiago Filipuzzi – LA NACIÓN

The second sessionalso to be held on the 23rd of this year, tThe purpose will be to sanction changes to legislation to prevent and repress money laundering. The project, approved by the Deputies in April 2023, is urgently requested by the national government, since it needs it before next March 3, when a mission from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) would arrive in the country to review the legislation. national. A poor rating from the organization could have repercussions on the national economy, said officials who came to defend the initiative in the Senate.

However, This last session could become a double-edged sword for Villarruel, since it will also involve opening the venue and giving Kirchnerism the possibility of requesting the modification of the session’s agenda to include the treatment of DNU 70/23.

Until now, the vice president would have a principle of commitment that the rest of the opposition would not join a move by Kirchnerism. But with Milei lambasting the opposition on social media and retaliating against the provinces, the picture can change at any moment.

Gustavo Ybarra

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