This afternoon was finally voted The suspension of the step in 2025 in the Chamber of Deputiesin the first session of the year and the extraordinary convened by Javier Milei. The aid to the Government of Freedom progresses came from several banks and caused a strong division in union by the homeland between detractors and defenders of the libertarian proposal. Came out with 162 affirmative votes, 33 more than I needed. It is that being a change in electoral material, at least 129 votes were needed to approve it. Was 55 votes against and 28 abstentions.
Among the affirmatives were the usual government allies: the PRO and other blocks, civic coalition, federal innovation (of the governors of Misiones, Salta and Rio Negro), the Tucumanos ex union for the homeland, and much of the UCR. This time, most democracy radicals were returned to the ring forever and federal encounter that came with a certain distance after accompanying the Base Law.
The novelty of the session was that The contribution of union by the homeland It was no longer as “surgical” to support the government as on other occasions, the block suffered a greater division. There were 25 who voted with freedom progress to suspend them, 43 who voted against and 24 abstained. Much of the sector that was due to abstention were in favor of the suspension of the passage but since the initiative came out comfortably they decided not to “burn” so much. Among the 25 deputies of Peronism who accompanied Javier Milei were from the provinces of Santiago del Estero and Catamarca As expected, and the sector joined Massita from the province of Buenos Aires, of Chubut, Mendoza, Tierra del Fuego, Santa Fe (Del Massimo) and Tucumán. The only deputy more directly associated with Governor Kicillof is Daniel Gollán and decided to absent himself.
He Left Front He rejected the suspension with all his bench (5). “How are we going to support measures that seek to favor Milei in the electoral process?” questioned Christian Castillo to the enclosure. He pointed against the government itself that negotiates with all traditional parties and the blocks that collaborate, including Peronism. “This government has a system of wigs that are putting on, and thus advances with corrupt laws such as the Bases Law. When the wigs do not reach it. The street “ sentenced Castillo who also had a crossing with Martín Menem, president of the Chamber, for the use of the word.
Federal encounterl Voted divided but mostly in favor of the suspension with the Cordoba (both those who respond to Governor Llaryora and La Sota), Miguel Angel Pichetto himself, Monzó, Randazzo and the deputies who respond to the governors of Chubut and between Rios. Against were Lopez Murphy, Massot, Paulón and Stolbizer. The same happened in radicalism. Of the UCR They only voted against Tetaz and Quetglas, and Cobos and Banfi abstained; while Democracy forever He had only 2 abstentions (Carbajal and Carrizo) and the rest was in favor.
THE DEBATE ON THE STEP
From Freedom advances and pro The most repeated arguments were that they are an “unnecessary expense” and that the primary did not work and end up serving only as “a face survey.” But they received a cataract of answers that refuted almost the only argument that the ruling gave to suspend the step.
The left It was one of the blocks that went to the crossing: “It has nothing to do with the economic resources that you want to save, even an official deputy had to admit that the bulk of the expense demanding the step is no longer going to be done because there is a single ballot” Christian Castillo said. The deputy of the left said that Javier Milei’s proposal is “The manipulation of the electoral calendar to bring it to the convenience of the ruling party and put a milestone based on a redesign of the political system with only two or three forces all funded by large corporations. That is the project management “. The entire left front bench rejected the project.
From Union for the Homeland, Germán Martínez completed the diagnosis of the interests of freedom progresses to suspend the step: “They want the political fragmentation of all spaces. They want to end up swallowing the pro, eating one more piece of radicalism, trying to sow tares in the other political spaces, even in ours. That is what you want: swallow and divide “. Martínez, who represents the province of Santa Fe, ended up voting abstention despite defending the Paso, for his role as a block head.
Others asked the ruling party: Where will the money go that is not used for the passage? Is that many of the criticisms of the opponents of the government questioned that the agenda imposed by Milei in the extraordinary ones is far away from social and economic problemsand that it is functional to “the political caste” of which Mileismo speaks so much. Some, as a union for the country and democracy forever also insisted on the treatment of Budget 2025 and rejected the discretionary and authoritarian use of the executive power. From the left they pointed out the dismissals as in health that are putting the attention to millions of people, or the definance in fire management to combat fires as in the bag.
Among the defenders of the suspension of the Paso was scored Miguel Angel Pichetto With another argument other than the ruling: “The step caused a fragility in the institutional and economic level” And he remembered what happened in August 2019 when Macri, who was still president, lost his way with everyone’s front. “The dollar was stable in 20 pesos, after primary school went to 40 and entered an acceleration to October” He detailed those traumatic days that had him as the protagonist as vice of the formula of together for change.
The radicals of Democracy forever They defended the suspension, but said “To avoid the elimination of the tool”. Pablo Juliano He urged “To all political forces so that in 2027, the debate is also facing society and we can tell you that the primary tool is a tool that complements political parties to improve representation”.
For its part, Juan Manuel López of the Civic Coalition He argued that his space believes that “there has to be step but that they do not have to be mandatory” but as the suspension was raised, they decided to accompany freedom again.
Now the initiative will have to go to the Senate to achieve the final sanction. There, the numbers are favorable to freedom progresses. Probably, also with the help of union for the homeland.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
