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Crucial week for Javier Milei: upon his return from Davos he hopes to obtain half-sanction of the Omnibus Law - Infobae
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January 16, 2024
The President will officially debut at the Swiss economic forum, while in Buenos Aires the project that the ruling party wants to approve these days in Deputies is being negotiated. The debut of the working table in Parliament. Inflexible narrative versus negotiations. What about retirements?
By Federico Mayol
Javier Milei with Martín Menem, president of the Chamber of Deputies
On Friday, when he landed early in the morning in Buenos Aires after his visit to the Davos economic forum in Switzerland, the president Javier Milei he will already know how much he will have given up, what articles he was able to support from his original drafting and what will be the parliamentary destiny of his audacious Omnibus Law project, the cornerstone of his administration, which has been discussed since last week in Congress and that keeps the entire political system busy in the most atypical summer in recent years.
This is, in short, a crucial week in the political and management project of the libertarian administration that offers, in its first month of administration, a dual strategy: a president who is inflexible in the construction of the story and a group of leaders who, for a few days, have had to juggle political negotiations with Together for Change and a sector of non-Kirchnerist Peronism, among whom the minister Guillermo Francos stands out. Martín Menem and the president of the lower house,
“They have to let themselves be helped”, reflected in these hours a prominent deputy from the group of “The 23”, We Make Federal Change, chaired by Miguel Ángel Pichetto, very restless in recent weeks. The former Rio Negro senator usually says, in private, that they are willing to have “a patriotic gesture” with the government in exchange for the Casa Rosada accepting the modifications requested by that group of legislators who, in some areas, act in tandem with part of Together for Change.
“If Milei wants, there is a huge portion willing to accompany him”, reflected, for his part, a PRO representative. “They are asking us for tax increases: just thinking that they would never have supported us for that should make them think much more,” he added.
The block in the Chamber of Deputies led by Miguel Ángel Pichetto
In this context, the presidential strategy of incessantly attacking the legislators, whom he treated as “coimeros” and “useful idiots”, is incomprehensible to the bulk of the JxC deputies who pile up, changes through, to support the official project. Milei is convinced that, next weekend, the law will have half a sanction in the Lower House. What is still being discussed is at what cost. In Congress there are two sides: those who believe that Milei's confrontational style is due to a premeditated strategy, and those who consider that, on the contrary, it is part of the head of state's personality.
The President knows that, 45 days after his arrival at the Casa Rosada, a good part of public opinion supports his style of government. In this framework he reinforces his communication strategy.
On Sunday, after the barbecue that the head of state shared with the cabinet in Olivos, Menem spoke for a very long time with representatives of the “Los 23” bloc. According to some sources, not by telephone, but in person. Last Thursday, the president of the Lower House had received some heads of parties in his office, to whom he promised that, starting this Monday, a “working table” would be formed with delegates from the Executive Branch.
Yesterday, finally, this area materialized for the first time: legislators from JxC and non-K Peronism met after the plenary session of commissions with Menem and with a couple of technicians sent by the Executive Branch who, according to them, They participated in the drafting of the law. Federico Sturzenegger was not there, one of the brains of the project and the DNU that the president signed as one of his first government measures.
“They are realizing that it is not a matter of blowing and blowing,” said last night a legislator who participated in the meeting in which they began to review, one by one, the first articles of the more than 600. , they added. “The ruling will depend on how quickly they respond: if what was taken today comes back on Thursday, it will be difficult for there to be a ruling on Friday”
The Omnibus Law is being discussed in committee and could reach the chamber in the coming days (Franco Fafasuli)
The previous week, some legislators met with the Secretary of Energy, Eduardo Rodríguez Chirillo, and with José Rolandi, right-hand man of Nicolás Posse in the Chief of Staff. A first approach that was not repeated, and that exhibited the inexperience and apathy of that group of officials with the political system when Rodríguez Chirillo, in a section of Menem's office, asked Emilio Monzó: “Excuse me, what is your name?” “Emilio”, Monzó responded, surprised, and continued with the talk. The rest of the legislators present - Carlos Gutiérrez, Juan Manuel López and Pichetto - did not know what gesture to make. After that, the negotiations remained in the hands of Menem and, in the case of the Executive, Francos. “The man is Menem”, they explained from the office of a legislator.
Last night, La Libertad Avanza sought to speed up legislative times and negotiations to try to obtain a majority opinion between Wednesday and Thursday, and hold a session between Friday and Saturday. And not be at the mercy of Kirchnerism, which has already publicized, publicly and privately, its total rejection of the Omnibus Law project. This is what Together for Change tried to explain to the Casa Rosada: the need to make the most of the agreements to have a majority opinion, reach a quorum -between LLA, the PRO, The UCR and Hacemos Cambio Federal have a total of 132 legislators, 3 more than the 129 needed - and avoid a legislative defeat in the debut of the ruling party in Congress in the hands of Kirchnerism.
With these negotiations underway, Milei left yesterday afternoon for Davos on his first trip outside the country, on his other debut, on an international level, neither more nor less than in a forum that global capitalism follows with special attention. She traveled with an austere entourage, and has no intention of socializing outside LLA about her time in that area in which, as confirmed by Casa Rosada, it will allow the president to meet, for example, Kristalina Georgieva, the director of the Fund. Monetary.
Javier Milei on the plane to Davos
Milei goes full throttle. Unlike, for example, Mauricio Macri, who on his first trip to that Swiss city got on the plane to Sergio Massa, whom he tried to mold as his main opponent until the relationship blew up. In his first months in office, the former president faced a gradual government program. The libertarian leader prefers shock.
After Switzerland, the president plans to travel to Rome to visit Pope Francis for the first time, with the excuse of the canonization of Blessed María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa, popularly known as Mama Antula. He would go, as it turned out, after passing through Israel, a sensitive trip for the link with the Vatican: Milei's decision to move the embassy from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem collides with the historical position of the Holy See, of granting a status special to that city, which the Supreme Pontiff took as his own.
Until last night, one of the requests that Together for Change insisted on most in this last week to accompany the bill was still unresolved: the update of pensions which, according to the official initiative, proposes suspending the current formula and allowing the Executive Branch to adjust it at its discretion. From the PRO, the UCR and the “Los 23” bloc want the government to make a new calculation official as quickly as possible and that the retirement adjustments do not lag behind inflation. Until yesterday the negotiations continued.
“The government does not want it to be indexed for inflation permanently: there is an intermediate”, abounded yesterday from the PRO bloc in the Lower House. The thing is that the Casa Rosada expects that the CPI measured by the INDEC will be high for a few months.
Within the period of the delegation of powers from Congress to the Executive, last week the government had recognized, at least unofficially, the possibility of giving in to the claims of JxC, which asked to reduce the period to one year. The Casa Rosada had already revealed, after governors, legislators and mayors shouted to the sky, a reversal in part of the political reform, in the biofuels sector and in the federal fishing regime. The issue of withholdings was still being discussed.
Against the clock, between Davos and Buenos Aires.
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Semana crucial para Javier Milei: a su regreso de Davos espera obtener la media sanción de la Ley Ómnibus
El Presidente debutará oficialmente en el foro económico de Suiza, mientras en Buenos Aires se negocia el proyecto que el oficialismo quiere aprobar en estos días en Diputados. El debut de la mesa de trabajo en el Parlamento. Relato inflexible versus negociaciones. Qué pasa con las jubilaciones
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January 16, 2024
The President will officially debut at the Swiss economic forum, while in Buenos Aires the project that the ruling party wants to approve these days in Deputies is being negotiated. The debut of the working table in Parliament. Inflexible narrative versus negotiations. What about retirements?
By Federico Mayol
Javier Milei with Martín Menem, president of the Chamber of Deputies
On Friday, when he landed early in the morning in Buenos Aires after his visit to the Davos economic forum in Switzerland, the president Javier Milei he will already know how much he will have given up, what articles he was able to support from his original drafting and what will be the parliamentary destiny of his audacious Omnibus Law project, the cornerstone of his administration, which has been discussed since last week in Congress and that keeps the entire political system busy in the most atypical summer in recent years.
This is, in short, a crucial week in the political and management project of the libertarian administration that offers, in its first month of administration, a dual strategy: a president who is inflexible in the construction of the story and a group of leaders who, for a few days, have had to juggle political negotiations with Together for Change and a sector of non-Kirchnerist Peronism, among whom the minister Guillermo Francos stands out. Martín Menem and the president of the lower house,
“They have to let themselves be helped”, reflected in these hours a prominent deputy from the group of “The 23”, We Make Federal Change, chaired by Miguel Ángel Pichetto, very restless in recent weeks. The former Rio Negro senator usually says, in private, that they are willing to have “a patriotic gesture” with the government in exchange for the Casa Rosada accepting the modifications requested by that group of legislators who, in some areas, act in tandem with part of Together for Change.
“If Milei wants, there is a huge portion willing to accompany him”, reflected, for his part, a PRO representative. “They are asking us for tax increases: just thinking that they would never have supported us for that should make them think much more,” he added.
The block in the Chamber of Deputies led by Miguel Ángel Pichetto
In this context, the presidential strategy of incessantly attacking the legislators, whom he treated as “coimeros” and “useful idiots”, is incomprehensible to the bulk of the JxC deputies who pile up, changes through, to support the official project. Milei is convinced that, next weekend, the law will have half a sanction in the Lower House. What is still being discussed is at what cost. In Congress there are two sides: those who believe that Milei's confrontational style is due to a premeditated strategy, and those who consider that, on the contrary, it is part of the head of state's personality.
The President knows that, 45 days after his arrival at the Casa Rosada, a good part of public opinion supports his style of government. In this framework he reinforces his communication strategy.
On Sunday, after the barbecue that the head of state shared with the cabinet in Olivos, Menem spoke for a very long time with representatives of the “Los 23” bloc. According to some sources, not by telephone, but in person. Last Thursday, the president of the Lower House had received some heads of parties in his office, to whom he promised that, starting this Monday, a “working table” would be formed with delegates from the Executive Branch.
Yesterday, finally, this area materialized for the first time: legislators from JxC and non-K Peronism met after the plenary session of commissions with Menem and with a couple of technicians sent by the Executive Branch who, according to them, They participated in the drafting of the law. Federico Sturzenegger was not there, one of the brains of the project and the DNU that the president signed as one of his first government measures.
“They are realizing that it is not a matter of blowing and blowing,” said last night a legislator who participated in the meeting in which they began to review, one by one, the first articles of the more than 600. , they added. “The ruling will depend on how quickly they respond: if what was taken today comes back on Thursday, it will be difficult for there to be a ruling on Friday”
The Omnibus Law is being discussed in committee and could reach the chamber in the coming days (Franco Fafasuli)
The previous week, some legislators met with the Secretary of Energy, Eduardo Rodríguez Chirillo, and with José Rolandi, right-hand man of Nicolás Posse in the Chief of Staff. A first approach that was not repeated, and that exhibited the inexperience and apathy of that group of officials with the political system when Rodríguez Chirillo, in a section of Menem's office, asked Emilio Monzó: “Excuse me, what is your name?” “Emilio”, Monzó responded, surprised, and continued with the talk. The rest of the legislators present - Carlos Gutiérrez, Juan Manuel López and Pichetto - did not know what gesture to make. After that, the negotiations remained in the hands of Menem and, in the case of the Executive, Francos. “The man is Menem”, they explained from the office of a legislator.
Last night, La Libertad Avanza sought to speed up legislative times and negotiations to try to obtain a majority opinion between Wednesday and Thursday, and hold a session between Friday and Saturday. And not be at the mercy of Kirchnerism, which has already publicized, publicly and privately, its total rejection of the Omnibus Law project. This is what Together for Change tried to explain to the Casa Rosada: the need to make the most of the agreements to have a majority opinion, reach a quorum -between LLA, the PRO, The UCR and Hacemos Cambio Federal have a total of 132 legislators, 3 more than the 129 needed - and avoid a legislative defeat in the debut of the ruling party in Congress in the hands of Kirchnerism.
With these negotiations underway, Milei left yesterday afternoon for Davos on his first trip outside the country, on his other debut, on an international level, neither more nor less than in a forum that global capitalism follows with special attention. She traveled with an austere entourage, and has no intention of socializing outside LLA about her time in that area in which, as confirmed by Casa Rosada, it will allow the president to meet, for example, Kristalina Georgieva, the director of the Fund. Monetary.
Javier Milei on the plane to Davos
Milei goes full throttle. Unlike, for example, Mauricio Macri, who on his first trip to that Swiss city got on the plane to Sergio Massa, whom he tried to mold as his main opponent until the relationship blew up. In his first months in office, the former president faced a gradual government program. The libertarian leader prefers shock.
After Switzerland, the president plans to travel to Rome to visit Pope Francis for the first time, with the excuse of the canonization of Blessed María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa, popularly known as Mama Antula. He would go, as it turned out, after passing through Israel, a sensitive trip for the link with the Vatican: Milei's decision to move the embassy from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem collides with the historical position of the Holy See, of granting a status special to that city, which the Supreme Pontiff took as his own.
Until last night, one of the requests that Together for Change insisted on most in this last week to accompany the bill was still unresolved: the update of pensions which, according to the official initiative, proposes suspending the current formula and allowing the Executive Branch to adjust it at its discretion. From the PRO, the UCR and the “Los 23” bloc want the government to make a new calculation official as quickly as possible and that the retirement adjustments do not lag behind inflation. Until yesterday the negotiations continued.
“The government does not want it to be indexed for inflation permanently: there is an intermediate”, abounded yesterday from the PRO bloc in the Lower House. The thing is that the Casa Rosada expects that the CPI measured by the INDEC will be high for a few months.
Within the period of the delegation of powers from Congress to the Executive, last week the government had recognized, at least unofficially, the possibility of giving in to the claims of JxC, which asked to reduce the period to one year. The Casa Rosada had already revealed, after governors, legislators and mayors shouted to the sky, a reversal in part of the political reform, in the biofuels sector and in the federal fishing regime. The issue of withholdings was still being discussed.
Against the clock, between Davos and Buenos Aires.
