Finally, during the afternoon of this Thursday the plot of one of the most intense policies of the year was an end. In spite of the frantic and desperate attempts of the ruling party for days to avoid it, the Senate voted in increase in retirement, extension of the moratorium and disability benefits. It’s about An important political defeat of the Governmentin a framework in which it maintains the support of the great capital and the IMF, but in which there is also economic uncertainty, development of struggles against the adjustment, discomfort with the political regime and scandals that hit the ruling again as the novelties of the cryptotafa $ Libra or the case “of the suitcases”.
Before continuing, it is convenient to recapitulate the week. The Government knew that it appeared to a probable defeat. Notice messages did not miss. President Javier Milei had to invent a clumsy climatic excuse so as not to go to the act of July 9 in Tucumán, wanting to hide the real motive of his decision: that almost all the governors were going to hit the fault, leaving it only for the photo, crossed by disputes with the national government for funds and by armed with electoral lists.
“The government pays badly to its allies” is a phrase that began to be installed. The destroy of the Government even with the collaborativeists who were indispensable for a minority government to vote for the Base Law and sustain so many other standards of adjustment and delivery, as well as keeping in foot decrees and unpopular vetoes, called into question the control of the National Congress by a government that has an institutional minority from its origins. Time does not pass in vain: the mechanisms that had so far served do not necessarily have the same effectiveness as the government accumulates and problems.
Before the adverse panorama, the government activated a sequence of maneuvers: first the ruling party of La Libertad advances He looked for a blackmail on the edge (With a lot of improvisation), through his journalist friend Alejandro Fantino, who “leaked” a conversation supposedly off the record that had had with Minister Luis Caputo. The message was clear: if the projects were voted in the Senate, hard times of economic crisis, weight devaluation and increased country risk, when putting themselves in check – according to them – the fiscal leg of the economic plan. The “joke”, however, implies playing fire and forced Caputo himself to have to try to clarify something. It is that, in recent weeks, the dollar has been rising, inflation, the rebounded, the current account deficit enlarging and even giant entities of international financial capital such as JP Morgan recommend “taking a break” from Argentina, questioning the financial bicycle. Everything foresees volatility to the October elections. The oven is not for buns, on such a precarious background, which is also combined with struggles against the adjustment and corruption scandals mentioned.
It was not, anyway, the only blackmail tried by the government. Shortly before starting the session, Minister Patricia Bullrich wrote on her social networks that “today Kirchnerism plans an institutional blow in the Senate.” It was the old verse of trying to divide the political field by the way of accusing coup and Kirchnerists who could vote against. Moreover, from the ruling party they will go to justice to declare the session invalid. It should be remembered that it began “autoconvocada” (it started without Victoria Villarruel presiding).
The interns of the ruling party, which have been expressing and knowing in the open, also demonstrated during the session. While in the enclosure, sensitive issues were discussed for much of the population, in X (former Twitter), Patricia Bullrich and Victoria Villarruel exchanged messages after the minister demanded that the vice president withdraw from the session, not to validate her. That dispute – which has long come to the open ones within the “Iron Triangle” by Javier Milei, Karina and Santiago Caputo.
The session in the Senate denotes a great government crisis (or disgust); Turning off the board is like retiring from the game and taking the ball when you lose.
Now you have to hold these votes on retirement in the streets and avoid the presidential veto with the …— Myriam Bregman (@myriambregman) July 10, 2025
However, the whole country knows that the story of what was voted did not have to do with interns or “coup plotters”: if these laws were voted in the National Congress, it was not by any plot, but it was Thanks to the exemplary and tireless fight of retirees and retirees That every Wednesday, for months, they are planted in the streets against adjustment and repression. And it was also thanks to the mass mobilizations of the disability collective. Rights conquer in the streets.
The heroic struggle of retirees conquered that the Senate votes the recomposition of assets and the pension moratorium. Deciles that it is useless to fight. A big hug for my retired friends on Wednesday and Pablo Grillo.
Dedicated to the criminal repressor @PatoBullrich– Nicolas del Caño (@nicolasdelcano) July 10, 2025
On the night of Wednesday and the morning of Thursday it seemed that, in part, the blackmail was going to have some effect: hours before the session, it was known that many of the most dialoguist governors, former Together for change, They were willing to negotiate the hunger of retirees in exchange for funds to handle them in their provinces. Literal: They wanted to vote retirement, moratorium and disability projects, but to approve only co -participation issues on the provinces, the elimination of all fiduciary funds and modifications to the Liquid Fuel Tax.
It is that this dispute is crossed by another background issue: beyond budget disagreements and electoral motivations and internal ones, there are many who share, essentially, the economic direction of the government. They only debate which sectors of the ruling classes and which of their matches will be the most benefited. That the chainsaw falls on the great majorities, for them, it is not in question. The IMF regime, adjustment and extractivism are pillars from those who do not get their feet from the plate.
However, the government crisis was so much that it did not even achieve that partial defeat, negotiated with the dialoguists.
Chronology of the official defeat
The session had as the first point of debate the order of the agenda. It was a first maneuver to try to vote first the interests of the governors and then -with that “in hand” -intend to make the projects for retirement, moratorium and disability fall.
At that point the ruling party suffered a first defeat, then confirmed by the reverse that it had when the validity of the opinions that came from deputies was determined. From there in more, all maneuvers failed, all defeats for series were chained in series La Libertad advances and most of the pro that followed it.
From now on, in the next few days we will see a scene with a repeated smell. The ruling announced its intention to veto what is voted and its effects are null. For that he needs his “third” that allows him to advance in these authoritarian and anti -democratic methodsin a context that also combines with a political situation of repression of social protest, proscription of Cristina Kirchner and use of the now finished “delegated faculties” To close and restructure organisms, in a state of the state.
However, history is not repeated in the same way. As the crisis and social discontent progress, and the electoral calendar is approaching, the ruling party appears with more contradictions and problems to impose its will as before.
To the caution of those above (doubts about the strength and capacity of the Government to carry out its plan, before and after October), it is added that, at this time, in important struggles such as those of the Garrahan hospital, Georgalos that comes from starring in a large court of Panamericana, Secco, Shipyard River Santiago, Road, Inti and other sectors of health and education, among many others. will for resistance to attacks that need to develop democratically, combative and bet to coordinate the struggle sectors. The rebound of inflation in turn acicate the social discomfort that, together with political discontent, can accelerate the situation of instability.
The fighting perspective must be imposed from below, given the scandalous truce of the CGT. Recall that one of its main referents, Gerardo Martínez, comes from meeting in the May Council to negotiate labor reform with Javier Milei. If the CGT really would like to represent the interests of the working people, they should do the opposite: to call for July 17, for when they are calling to march workers of the clawing and other sectors in struggle, to a large general unemployment with mobilization.
However, many of them, such as the traitor Andrés Rodríguez, are only overturned to the negotiations and internal of Peronism while holding the truce with Milei, betting, where appropriate, Axel Kicillof, which far from being a “shield” against the chainsaw, as he proclaims, has been complicit in the layoff reaching the height that his Ministry of Labor leaves large companies breach mandatory conciliations and proceed illegally. The policy of Peronism, unified and divided at the same time, is to reissue the policy of the Front of allbut with a new name to make up the recent failure: now they are called Homelandbut they are almost all the same as before. His idea is to let everything go to “return” in 2027, after Milei has razed everything. They even lifted the fight against the prison and proscription of Cristina Kirchner, without calling any more mobilization after having filled the Plaza de Mayo, which showed that force is. The problem is driving.
It is also true that within the CGT there are sectors that are proclaimed critics of the driving of Héctor Daer, but to be consistent they should pass the words to the facts calling with all the forces of their unions to fight in each conflict and against the veto of Milei. The same fits for the conduction of the CTA, with a lot of responsibility on sectors that are strongly attacked today.
In another policy completely different from that, today the left is playing to use the electoral gallery to raise an exit to the favorable crisis to the great majorities and the need for a political tool of workers in the face of the failure of all the last governments, but also – and above all, with much more urgency – to surround support each struggle to succeed. Because In each battle there is a chapter of the commitment to the construction of force volumes capable of defeating Milei’s plans, the IMF and the great employers.
For now, an immediate challenge: all to the Plaza de Mayo this July 17 accompanying the Garrahan and all the struggles, which call that day to march, and now adding the great slogan of fighting the veto that Milei will try.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
