The Senate became law The elimination of the step for 2025 at the request of Javier Milei This Thursday. It was approved with 43 affirmative, 20 negatives and 6 abstentions. The PRO, a part of the UCR and Union for the country, accompanied by other provincial blocks.
Senate: It is law to eliminate the step in 2025. 43 in favor, 20 against and 6 abstentions. Union for the country contributed 11 votes to Milei’s request and another 6 abstained. pic.twitter.com/b6MwoZy2KI
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The sanction obtained 6 more votes than necessary, and The contribution of union by the country with 11 senators who turned to support it was decisive. Another 6 of the block abstained, and 15 voted against.
It was the same that happened with his bench in the Chamber of Deputies. But this time he had An extra seasoning: they collaborated to give a triumph to Javier Milei at the time he is going through a great crisis for the crypto scandal $ Libra.
The elimination of the step by 2025 was The project that most interested the libertarian government. With it, it seeks to hinder the opposition alliances system so that it competes more fragmented, and thus Locate better to expand your Congress benches In the electoral contest. This It would mean that you can shield with “own troop” the presidential dnus and vetoes or advance with initiatives such as the Base Law that seek to reset the country in favor of large corporations and economic power.
Despite some speeches lit from the Peronist bench against the Government, The vote result left again the collaboration that has been providing From several provinces. There is Three Peronist governors who have already become more common allies in Milei. As the case of Santiago del Estero by Gerardo Zamora: his 3 senators voted in favor (Ledesma Abdala, Neder and Montenegro). Of the Catamarca from Jalil added his affirmative vote Guillermo Andrada, and the Tucumán Jaldo were Juan Manzur and Sandra Mendoza. But he had more support: Carolina Moisés de Jujuy, María Teresa González de la Formosa de Insfrán, Sergio Leavy from Salta and Fernando Salino de San Luis. Between 6 abstentions of Peronism was the Lucia Corpacci From Catamarca that comes from putting the firm to enable Ariel Lijo’s document for the Supreme Court, although for now he does not have the votes in the enclosure.
The vote contrasted with the outrage that Juliana di Tullio expressed with the radicals for giving the government quorum to suspend the passage at the beginning of the session. Indeed The enclosure could open thanks to the UCR, but then union for the country gave the vote to the government.
In it Radicalism case, most of the block accompanied the proposal to suspend the step although He had 4 detractors such as Lousteau (CABA), Abad (Buenos Aires), Fame (Catamarca) and Blanco (Tierra del Fuego). Carolina Losada de Santa Fe preferred to absent.
Radical Boicot to the Investigative Commission
It was not the only collaboration with Milei during this Thursday’s session. The UCR gave the note with a new panquechism style: it saved the president that a research commission on cryptogate. By just one vote it was not approved. The striking thing is that the initiative was his own authorship, but there were 6 of his senators who voted against pressure from their governors. The most emblematic case was that of the president of the block, Eduardo Vischi: He had signed the project to create the investigative commission, and then voted against. La Libertad advances could avoid being investigated by the Senate by the pressure exerted by executive power over some radical governors. Cornel of Mendoza, Clowwery of Santa Fe, Valdés of Corrientes and Zdero Chaco led the lobby so that their senators do not accompany the investigation they had proposed. Mariana Juri de Mendoza, Stella Maris Olalla de Entre Rios (in this case by pressure from the governor of the Pro, Frigerio), Mercedes Valenzuela and Vischi of Corrientes, and Zimmermann of Chaco. The latter was another particular case: El Chaqueño interrupted his license for several months (for occupying a position in the provincial government) to collaborate with Milei in this session. Another invaluable help to the government that crosses its worst crisis since it assumed and a step that is in the sense of shielding it with impunity against a scandal with suspicions of corruption with national and international impact.
Gondola Congress?
The Upper House gave collaborative lessons this Thursday. It was the graphic representation of how Milei is sustained since he assumed. With one UCR changing their votes to save the government from an investigation. AND Union for the Homeland that he was outraged with the extraordinary agenda, but ended up contributing key votes to a measure that serves La Libertad advances to expand his benches.
While Milei is in the eye of the storm for the $ Libra scandal that splashes several officials of their closest environment, Congress demonstrated once again that in traditional politics there are many willing to help and save a government at the service of more concentrated economic power. The image of this session with letter allies, contrasted with the protest that the palace with many of the scammed by Milei surrounded 24 hours before. Retirees, health workers, fired from several companies mobilized despite the repression of Patricia Bullrich. The deputies and referents of the Left Front They were the only ones who said present as they do every Wednesday. “This is solved in the street” He told a TN mobiler one of the retirees, and it was like A advance of the sad show that Congress gave Thursday at the feet of Milei.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
