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For now without agreement, Profits and retirements will once again be the points that will define the approval of the Omnibus Law - Infobae
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Por ahora sin acuerdo, Ganancias y jubilaciones serán otra vez los puntos que definirán la aprobación de la Ley Ómnibus
La Casa Rosada giró al Congreso y a los gobernadores un nuevo texto con 269 artículos. Ayer, el ministro Francos recibió al PRO y la UCR para escuchar sugerencias. El lunes irá Pichetto. Los cambios que fueron bien recibidos y los puntos que generan preocupación
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March 17, 2024
The Casa Rosada sent a new text with 269 articles to Congress and the governors. Yesterday, Minister Francos received the PRO and the UCR to listen to suggestions. Pichetto will go on Monday. Changes that were welcomed and points of concern
By Federico Millenaar
Deputies from the UCR and HCF talk during the debate on the Omnibus Law in the Chamber of Deputies (Maximiliano Luna)
Three days ago, the Casa Rosada sent a new draft of the Omnibus Law to the governors and the dialogue opposition blocks in Congress. After a careful analysis of the text, representatives of the PRO and the UCR met with the Minister of the Interior, Guillermo Francos, to raise questions and make some suggestions. On Monday it will be the turn of Miguel Ángel Pichetto , Emilio Monzó and other members of We Make the Federal Coalition.
In response to Infobae 's consultation , both the UCR and the We Make Federal Coalition and Federal Innovation blocks welcomed the fact that the new version is based on the last text that was analyzed at the venue. “ It is not the madness of before ,” they summarized from the radical bench. “ It is positive that the work already done is collected ,” agreed another of the men who participated in the first negotiations.
However, the new draft - which has 269 articles instead of the original 664 - goes further and has quite profound modifications to the articles that ended up bringing down the project a little over a month ago.
For example, President Javier Milei decided to make a drastic reduction in the number of Emergencies he seeks to declare: they will only be in administrative , economic , financial and energy matters (originally there were a dozen). Therefore, the negotiation around delegated powers will be much more limited.
On this point, it was notable that the Security emergency was not included , especially given the escalation of violence in Rosario. The opposition understands that the Government will concentrate its efforts on sanctioning an “anti-mafia” project inspired by the United States law known as RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) and Italian regulations. The ruling party has already announced that it will also promote a reform in the Internal Security Law to allow the intervention of the Armed Forces in the fight against drug trafficking.
Oscar Zago, president of the La Libertad Avanza bloc (Gustavo Gavotti)
On the other hand, in Hacemos Coalión Federal they celebrated that the withholdings were completely excluded and rescued that the list of companies authorized to be privatized went from 40 to 3 ( Aerolíneas Argentinas, Enarsa and Radio y Televisión Argentina ), plus another 9 in a scheme of partial sale (AySA, Correo Oficial, Belgrano Cargas, SOFSE, Corredores Viales, Carboniferous Deposits of Río Turbio, Nucleoeléctrica Argentina, Banco Nación and ArSat). However, the position of the UCR and HCF had been that each privatization process would pass separately through Congress.
On the other hand, the warning lights came on when we reached the chapter on retirement mobility , which proposes, as in the version that foundered on the premises, an update of assets based on the CPI (INDEC Price Index) starting in April, with a 10% compensation in the first month to compensate for the “junction” between the two formulas.
The radical deputies pointed out that this alternative does not completely compensate for January's inflation. Along the same lines, HCF announced that they will not move from the Civic Coalition project , which also updates by CPI but prescribes an increase of 20.6% that seeks to compensate for January inflation.
“ That 10% difference is USD 2,000 million, where do we get it from? ", a libertarian deputy told Infobae in the run-up to the session that did not reach a quorum this Wednesday and was intended to address the issue of pension mobility.
In his meeting with the PRO , Cristian Ritondo yesterday ratified his general support for the new Bases Law but suggested to Minister Francos that he take the project on retirements that was presented last week by María Eugenia Vidal, which proposes updating pensions monthly based on to the variation of the INDEC Price Index, with a retroactive application to January to prevent the months of highest inflation from being left out of the connection. Milei officials promised to take it into account but did not give definitive answers about that possibility.
Rodrigo De Loredo, Karina Banfi and Soledad Carrizo from the UCR block (Gustavo Gavotti)
Regarding the new tax on high incomes , which will replace Profits , the yellow bloc asked that the exemptions be maintained for police officers, doctors on duty, daycare centers, and that it be clarified who they will specifically reach in the oil sector.
Along the same lines, Rodrigo de Loredo agreed that the reform of retirement mobility should be addressed as soon as possible, even separately from the Omnibus Law. “They lost 35% of their purchasing power, that can't wait any longer. That was a very specific proposal,” revealed the radical deputy at the door of the Casa Rosada.
Among the points that remain without agreement, the trust funds stand out, one of the first articles that was rejected during the debate in the room and led to the withdrawal of the entire project. “The national Executive Branch is empowered to modify, transform, unify, dissolve, liquidate or cancel public trust funds, in cases where it is not possible to do so in accordance with the procedures established in its creation rules, constituent instruments or other applicable provision, and revert or redirect, as appropriate, its resources or future income to the National Treasury,” says article 5 of the new draft. “ The fight over trust funds is resumed ,” they advanced from radicalism.
There was another issue that caught the attention of the Federal Innovation legislators and radicalism . Title VII, on economic deregulation , authorizes the Executive “to order the repeal or modification of regulations on private economic activity that lead to an increase in costs, limit the exercise of the autonomy of will or cause a shortage of goods and services. without sufficient public interest justification.” This new article, which was not in the original version, “is too broad” for a Patagonian deputy who speculated that the Government could be trying to compensate in this way for a repeal of the DNU. “It is very broad and indeterminate,” the radicals agreed.
Finally, the technical teams of the dialogue blocks are still working on calculations to determine the impact of the new High Income Tax that would replace the Income Tax. “It must be analyzed very carefully,” they explained, without advancing a position on this point. This point will be the central axis of the negotiations between the Casa Rosada and the governors within the framework of a new fiscal pact.
