A new Congress It will be born after the sanction of the “Bases Law” and the fiscal package. The blocks that collaborated with the Government’s objectives will adopt a new attitude and they will seek to promote many of the issues that they left aside to avoid hindering the dialogue. They will promote issues resisted by the ruling partysuch as the recomposition of the retirement benefits with inflation since January, the dismantling of special regimes like Tierra del Fuego, the financing educational and the increase of tobacco tax for all companies.
This turn in the behavior of the UCR, We Make Federal Coalition and Federal Innovation It has two explanations. On the one hand, they intend prevent Javier Milei from continuing to point out that they are to blame for the missteps of his administration. “He is running out of arguments,” ruled a representative of this parliamentary triad. For the other, They consider it essential to set an agenda that feeds the sense of belonging of their own electorate. Part of radicalism still regrets not having contributed to the quorum in the session requested by Unión por la Patria (UP) to debate university investment. “We cannot abandon our flags,” commented a coreligionist to THE NATION.
The incipient insubordination of the dialogue deputies will begin next Monday, the same day that the plenary session will discuss, and most likely approve, the “Bases Law” and the fiscal package. In parallel to their support for the initiatives of the Executive Branch, these legislators will take the reins of the room and force the introduction of other issues.
Federal Innovation, the bench that responds to the provincial governments of Neuquén, Misiones, Salta and Río Negro, will seek the restitution of the articles that raised the increase in internal taxes on tobacco from 70 to 73% and eliminated the minimum tax on cigarettes, which benefits Pablo Otero, from Tabacalera Sarandí. The salteña Pamela Callettigovernor’s bishop Gustavo Saenztold this media that he will raise it in the session and, if its approval is assured, he will request a motion to put it to a vote.
“Unfortunately, there are sectors that are operating so that we cannot sanction it,” said Calletti, who specified: “There are 1 billion dollars that Argentina could collect from a product that is harmful to health. In addition, it is a co-participating tax that reaches both the provinces and the Federal Capital, as well as the National Treasury.”
The same strategy will be adopted by the Civic Coalition, part of the bloc led by Miguel Ángel Pichettowhat will aim to dismantle special tax regimessuch as the one that benefits the electronics industry in the province of Tierra del Fuego.
To do this, they will request the inclusion of an article that instructs the Executive Branch to send to Congress a bill within a certain period of time “aimed at increasing the current resources of the Administration by two percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), through the elimination or modification of tax exemptions, tax benefits or any other tax expense.”
Retirements will also be part of the agenda that the dialogue triad will seek to impose in Monday’s session. These blocks agree to appoint the Budget Commission, chaired by José Luis Espert, to deal with projects that aim to deepen the recomposition of pension assets. Although Milei defined an update using the CPI and a one-time increase of 12.5%, legislators will insist on a larger repair that includes all of January’s inflation, 20.6%. This would imply a strong blow to the State coffers. The Minister of Economy, Luis Caputowas able to display financial surpluses in the first two months of the year, largely due to the liquefaction of retiree income as well as current transfers of subsidies and social programs.
For its part, The UCR will turn to its large university militancy and will promote the approval of the bill “Financing regime for National Universities”presented by the deputy Danya Left. After the signing of the opinions of the “Bases Law” and the fiscal package, the radicals rushed a request for the president of the Education commission, Alejandro Finocchiaro (Pro), to debate this matter.
After the massive university march, Kirchnerism’s request for a special session to discuss educational investment bothered the UCR, which avoided sitting by its side right in the final stretch of the negotiations with the Government. For this reason, the leader of the radical bloc, Rodrigo de Loredo, sent a signal to the bases of his party and justified through At most I could summon and demand that the commission be convened, which is what we achieved with this note.” In the mirror, the president of the National Committee, Martin Lousteaurequested a special session in the Senate for next Tuesday for the same purpose.
The UCR will also insist on its fight against the unions. De Loredo’s space promoted a labor reform that sought to dismantle the main union funds, among which was the elimination of mandatory “union dues”, as well as the limitation of strike blockades. However, the Government chose to back down in this battle due to the possibility of an intensification of forceful measures in the run-up to the mobilization for Labor Day.
It was not the only concession that the ruling party had to make to obtain the ruling. At the last minute he also backed down with the consolidation of public securities in the hands of the Anses Sustainability Guarantee Fund (FGS). At the request of the governors, We Make the Federal Coalition demanded the commitment of the Government of comply with the payment of debts with the pension funds not transferred to the Nation. This point, among others, will be part of the discussion that will have as protagonists in Congress the provincial leaders, who are anxiously awaiting economic relief after appearing docile in this new parliamentary round.