The one that begins will be, a priori, a busy week of movements and definitions in the Congress. Both the Chambers of Deputies and the Senate are preparing to resume activity and advance part of the agenda of extraordinary sessions that the government of Javier Miley devised to treat from December 10.
One of the keys of these days will be the treatment of the misnamed project of “Labor Modernization” (a true anti-worker counter-reform) that mercy He just signed on Thursday when he landed at Aeroparque after returning from a meaningless trip to Norway. The speculations about the immediate start of the extraordinary elections on the 10th of this month were left behind and the Pink House He hopes that some movements will begin this week.
The official objective was to discuss in committee last week the draft Budget 2026 and the law of Tax Innocence (initiative of the disgraced narco-deputy José Luis Espert), two issues that will likely focus attention in the Lower House during the remainder of December. If opinions were reached last week, it would be possible to move forward with a session this Tuesday or Wednesday and then go to the Senate. But that has already passed, at least for several days.
In the upper house, with Patricia Bullrich as a protagonist, the Government originally planned to focus on the treatment of Budget (arrived with half a sanction from Deputies), but it has already been demonstrated that he also wants to move forward quickly with his slave labor reform. Anyway, your desires may clash with some complications.
The palace…
Thus things, according to the portal Parliamentarianthis Monday the Budget and Finance and Criminal Legislation commissions of Deputies will meet. The first, chaired by the libertarian representative Laura Rodríguez Machadowill meet at 4:00 p.m. The second, which is still under the command of Bertie Benegas Lynchwill start at 5:00 p.m.
In turn, initial meetings will be held in both chambers where the dates will be defined to debate the bills. Budget and of Tax Innocence. It is presumed that they will be discussed the day after those meetings and the intention to Freedom Advances they are procedures express with signatures of the opinions without much hesitation.
On the other hand, the treatment of the project of National Commitment to Fiscal and Monetary Stabilitythe Mileist initiative to impose a mandatory fiscal balance from now on, that is, any new expense or law that involves extra resources only advances if it defines in advance where the money would come from. But this project has not yet formally reached Congress.
In Deputies Freedom Advances He wants that, once the opinions have been obtained, this week there will be a marathon session on Wednesday or two sessions between that day and Thursday. If he achieves it, it remains to be seen what happens in the senate. This Tuesday at 11 the block heads of the Upper House have scheduled a meeting to define how they are going to organize themselves. The agenda appears complicated, with the addition that the end-of-year holidays fall on Wednesdays and Thursdays, which leaves little room in the almanac.
The first thing senators must do is agree the formation of the commissions. In the case of the slave labor reform project, the Budget and Finance commissions and the Labor and Social Security commissions must be activated. We have to see how it prospers, since the project includes a tax chapter and the opposition has been saying that for that reason the treatment should start in Deputies.
On that point, Parliamentarian ensures that the tension could lead to prosecutionsince some suggest that it would be better to separate that chapter and deal with it separately in the Lower House to avoid legal problems later. For now, the thread remains open.
They say that the Peronist interblock that leads Jose Mayans He wants to stretch the discussion as long as possible, asking for “information meetings” to be held before voting. Union for the Homeland He wants around a hundred people to participate, but Freedom Advances I would only accept about thirty. If the situation allows us to reach a synthesis, these meetings could be held between Wednesday and Thursday and The signing of the opinion would be scheduled for next Monday.. If that happens, the treatment at the facility would be scheduled for Monday the 29th or Tuesday the 30th.
And on those same dates the 2026 Budget should also be voted on, if the half-sanction in Deputies arrives on time. It all sounds like a lot in such a short time, to libertarian desperation. According to parliamentary analysts, it is likely that the ruling party will finally lower its anxiety and agree to leave part of the discussion for next year, with an eventual new call for extraordinary sessions in January and February.
In the Senate, for now, the committees that are going to deal with the projects that come from Deputies are already being set up. The Justice and Criminal Affairs Commission and also the Mining, Energy and Fuels Commission are going to be launched, thinking about the upcoming discussion on the reform of the Glacier Law.
…and the street
The deputies of the Left Front and Workers Unity They will give every fight in Parliament to defend the interests of the working class and the popular sectors before the attacks of Milei, his “opposition” accomplices and the big business community. And they are also part of the call to mobilize massively in the streets to confront with all the working and popular force possible the plan of hunger and misery of Freedom Advances and his minions.
He FAT and other political and union spaces have launched a call for several days to march on Thursday the 18th in rejection of the slave labor reform. The CGTfor his part, seemed to “wake up” a little and at the end of last week announced a march to Plaza de Mayoalso for this Thursday. But the largest union center in the country continues to resist calling for a general strike that allows not only to mobilize hundreds of thousands of workers but also to begin a serious plan of struggle until the libertarian plans are defeated.
The left and the combative sectors propose to demand from below the CGTthe CTA and the unions that reject the labor reform a national strike on Thursday the 18th to guarantee massive mobilization together with social organizations, students, retirees, women and sexual diversity and all working people. Also that day start a fight plan that culminates in the general strike that paralyzes the country and allow the demonstration of millions of workers, the only possibility of twisting the arm of Milei, the IMF and the big employers.
In this framework, various anti-bureaucratic labor organizations and the left call to concentrate the Thursday at 3 p.m. at the intersection of Avenida 9 de Julio and Avenida de Mayo to march to Plaza de Mayo with an independent column.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
