2024-02-02 21:05:00
AGUSTIN MARCARIAN | REUTERS
The Executive’s star project goes ahead with 144 votes in favor and 109 against. Outside Congress, the mobilizations continue with heavy police charges
02 feb 2024 . Updated at 11:40 p.m.
The ley mnibusstar project of the Executive of Javier Mileywas approved in general this Friday in the Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine Congress by 144 in favor and 109 against.
At the end of the third session of debate on this bill, The Lower House generally approved the majority opinion that came out of the work in the commissions, although next Tuesday the articles in particular will have to be voted on, which were reduced to 382, just over half of those that the original text had (664).
The session was called for Tuesday at 2:00 p.m. local time (5:00 p.m. GMT). After the eventual approval of the articles, the minibus law would go to the Senate for review in the Upper House.
The president’s party mercyLa Libertad Avanza (ultra-right), which only has 38 deputies, received the support of Republican Proposal (center-right) —the formation of the former Argentine president, Mauricio Macri—, the Unin Cvica Radical (center) and the majority of members of We make Federal CoalitionThe Peronist Union for the Homeland bloc, the left and some deputies from provincial formations voted against the project.
The law Bases and Starting Points for the Freedom of Argentines, known as the minibus law due to the number of articles and the magnitude of the reforms it proposes, is the tool with which the Milei Executive It aims to deregulate the economy and reduce the weight of the State.
AGUSTIN MARCARIAN | REUTERS
The minority situation of the ruling far-right party and the resistance of some blocs to supporting certain measures took the size of the text from the original 664 articles to the 584 in which it remained after the plenary session of commissions and, after the elimination of the fiscal chapter, also To avoid disagreements with the opposition, the opinion that reached the Lower House included 382 articles.
Just an hour before the vote, Milei had demanded responsibility and speed to the deputies to approve the consensus project of the omnibus law that has been debated for three days in Congress and told them that they had the opportunity to demonstrate which side of history they want to be on.
Injured journalists
The discussion was surrounded by a strong commotion, and a great controversy, both inside and outside Congress, due to the repression and the deployment of forces with which Patricia Bullrichthe Minister of Security, tried to assert her anti-picket protocol.
The unusual device, made up of the Argentine Naval Prefecture, the Gendarmerie and the Federal Police, confronted the protesters with water cannon trucks, rubber bullets and pepper spray, and caused about a hundred injuries, including at least twenty workers. of press. Lawyer Matias Aufieri, from the Center of Professionals for Human Rights, was injured by a rubber bullet near his eye, which he could lose. However, Minister Bullrich justified the repression, maintaining that there was no serious incident and stressed that her management will continue to maintain public order.
AGUSTIN MARCARIAN | REUTERS
Regarding the injured journalists, he noted that it is very difficult to distinguish them and that they will call on journalists’ associations to establish some method to identify them.
On Friday morning, The surroundings of Congress dawned again fenced with a strong security device, waiting for new mobilizations called in the afternoon by different social and political organizations, under oppressive heat and with temperatures of up to 36 degrees.
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