In order to begin the session to discuss the labor reform, the Government needed the help of different blocks to reach the necessary quorum since the La Libertad Avanza block has 95 members and the floor necessary to start is 129 legislators.
The Pro contributed its 12 seats, the UCR, headed by Pamela Verasay who responds to Mendoza governor Alfredo Cornejo, supported with its 6 legislators, which was joined by the duo of Zago and Falcone that make up the MID bloc. By order of the governor of Santa Cruz, Claudio Vidal, José Luis Garrido was one of the last to enter the premises. Even so, with these accomplices the Government could not achieve a quorum, so They were fundamental deputies who entered the Peronist lists:
Jaldo’s “Independence” block
The block called “Independence” of deputies from Tucuman who respond to the governor Osvaldo Jaldo They sat in their chairs so that the bill that seeks to attack millions of workers with the hours bank can advance, taking out overtime and deciding at the discretion of the employers when you can take vacations. It is about Gladys Medinawho also signed to request that today’s session be held, Elia Fernández y Javier Nogueratogether with Jaldo, campaigned calling each other to vote as opponents of Milei in their province on a unified list of all Peronism from Unión por la Patria.
“I choose Catamarca”
The three deputies who respond to Raúl Jalilgovernor of Catamarcawho just in December of last year left the Unión por la Patria bloc to form their own particular bloc. Are Fernanda Ávila, Sebastian Noblega y Fernando Monguillotwho also came from collaborating with the ruling party. To give an example, in 2024 Ávila, who was Secretary of Mining in the Frente de Todos government, avoided going down to vote against the veto on financing for universities.
The deputies of Sáenz, the former vice candidate of Massa
The Salteños who make up the Federal Innovation block and respond to Gustavo Saenzgovernor of Salta, contributed theirs. Their proper names are Yolanda Vega, Pablo Outes y Bernando Biellaat the beginning of the government they were part of the Unión por la Patria bloc after having been part of the ballot. Already in the Senate, Flavia Royón, who was Sáenz’s candidate in 2025, a former official of the Frente de Todos and La Libertad Avanza governments, contributed her vote to the labor reform, including article 44, which promised discounts for sick leave.
The missionaries who respond to Passalacqua
Also part of the Federal Innovation bloc, the 4 deputies who respond to Hugo Passalacqua, the governor of Misiones, contributed by sitting in their seats to reach the necessary number of the quorum. It is about Alberto Arrua, Oscar Herrera, Yamila Ruiz y Daniel Vancsikwho also gave their help by signing the session request and the opinion in the commissions. The Passalacqua space also shared a ballot with the Peronist Union for the Homeland.
“Be careful with the word traitors”
The PTS/FIT-U deputy, Myriam Bregman, referred to the role of accomplices and so-called traitors during her interventions in the session: “I heard the word traitors many times, which I also use. There are traitors, Of course there are traitors, who get themselves elected based on a list, based on some ideas, saying that they are opponents of Milei and they pass”.
But the reflection did not end there, and added that “in this chamber and in the Senate all the blocks voted for the laws of repetition and recidivism. When political conduct is repeated, when those from Tucumán and other provinces were with Milei before the October elections and are again afterward, do repetition and recidivism not apply to political conduct? Why are they traitors? They are scoundrels“If they were already like this before the October elections, or now it seems that we blessed them for the elections, they go back to being good and then they betray?”
Thus, the left-wing deputy who was also part of the street rally during the day against the labor reform, sought to highlight the electoral speculations that are becoming the order of the day with sectors of Peronism that have been complicit in Milei’s plan from day one: “Be careful with the word traitors, because it is a word that has a lot of symbolic weight, but here there are no traitors, here there is reiteration and recidivism, that which you want to apply to the popular sectors to send them to jail, I imagine if the same would be applied to the political class, to the political caste, to those who say they come to fight it and to those who vote for the laws and give feedback”.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
