2024-03-15 21:07:11
Without the certainty of having the necessary votes for its approval, Victoria Villarruel gave the green light for the treatment this Thursday of Javier Milei’s mega DNU in the Senate and the internal conflict within La Libertad Avanza deepened.
Villarruel was unable to reverse the decision he made on Tuesday after pressure exerted by the Casa Rosada to avoid discussion of the mega-decree issued by President Javier Milei last December.
On Tuesday, the vice president surprised on the agenda of the special session with the inclusion of the ambitious DNU that deregulates the economy and debureaucratizes the State and that was designed by the presidential advisor and former head of the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic, Federico Sturzenegger.
President Milei’s office issued a statement expressing ‘concern’ over the unilateral decision. The text does not mention Villarruel, but, without saying so, the president targeted her because he was the one who signed the authorization to debate the decree.
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The measure caused discomfort in the Executive from where they questioned that the head of the Senate has enabled the discussion, despite knowing that the opposition has the necessary number to gather the quorum and eventually reject the decree that modifies 200 laws and repeals another 80 regulations. .
Today can not only mark a turning point, if the Senate finally rejects the DNU and it returns to the Deputies, because it would put its exceptional measures on hold, but it also marks a point of very high tension between Javier Milei and his vice president. revealing differences between the two that have been brewing for a long time.
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