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The Government speeds up the turnaround of the fiscal package, but the debate on the Omnibus Law is delayed due to the objections of the allies - Infobae
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El Gobierno apura el giro del paquete fiscal, pero se demora el debate de la Ley Ómnibus por los reparos de los aliados
El Ministerio de Economía pule los detalles burocráticos y la Jefatura de Gabinete planea enviar mañana el capítulo con los cambios en Ganancias. Mientras, la Casa Rosada lidia con las demandas de gobernadores y diputados
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April 16, 2024
The Ministry of Economy is polishing the bureaucratic details and the Chief of Staff plans to send the chapter tomorrow with the changes in Profits. Meanwhile, the Casa Rosada deals with the demands of governors and deputies
By Brenda Struminger
PRO deputies with the Minister of the Interior, Guillermo Francos
This afternoon the Casa Rosada gave the final bureaucratic stitches to the fiscal package that it agreed with the dialogue opposition and that it will seek to deal with in parallel to the postponed Omnibus Law starting next week. He plans to present the project, which includes Profits, to the Chamber of Deputies tomorrow . However, the times to begin the debate in committee on that initiative with Bases are postponed, and the conversation seems to get muddied, again. Every day new setbacks and obstacles are reissued or appear from “allied” deputies and governors, who retaliate with demands and concerns, from the regulation of tobacco companies, to the sections on investment promotion and labor reform.
At the Casa Rosada they had planned to convene the plenary session of commissions for this week, but this morning they admitted that they will not do so until next week . They want to be sure that they have all the votes they need secured, and until today, despite the optimism they exhibited days ago, they had to recognize that they still do not have them.
The Bases project will be discussed in committee on the basis of the one that had been presented at the beginning of the year, replacing it with the famous draft that Guillermo Francos sent to the governors and the blocks. But the fiscal part is still in the hands of the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, who planned to send it today to the Legal and Technical Secretariat of Javier Herrera Bravo so that the formal aspects can be finalized. After the signature of the President and the ministers, he would go to the Chief of Staff led by Nicolás Posse , and from there to the Secretariat of Parliamentary Relations of Congress.
According to reports, the person in charge of turning it over this time will not be the Minister of the Interior, Francos, but the Secretary of Parliamentary Relations, Omar de Marchi. Once in Congress, he would go to the Presidency of the Chamber managed by Martín Menem; then to the Parliamentary Secretariat; and finally the commissions would be turned. This bureaucratic process was scheduled for today, but will last until tomorrow at the latest, they said at the headquarters of the national government.
Luis Caputo (REUTERS)
In the fiscal package, the central and most problematic axis is the Income Tax, whose floor was 1.8 million and where new scales were introduced. And although the ruling party believes that these changes are enough to receive the approval of the allies of Together for Change and We Make the Federal Coalition, objections continue to appear.
The governor of Santa Cruz, Claudio Vidal, who puts two senators at stake, maintains a tough stance against any initiative from La Libertad Avanza, while pushing for Dams, YCRT and funds for local activities. This morning, very early, Francos received him for only half an hour before the Cabinet meeting, but they did not reach an agreement and will continue talking.
Meanwhile, his counterpart from Santa Fe, the radical Maximiliano Pullaro, said that he does not agree with the fine letter of the investment promotion regime, and asked to review it before his meeting with Martín Llaryora from Córdoba, Rogelio Frigerio from Entre Ríos and the Francos himself, who traveled to Santa Fe especially this afternoon, to listen to the claims of the “core region” of the country, as they called it in those around him.
Furthermore, co-religionist Martín Tetaz, from the Lower House, insists with increasing vehemence on the need to reincorporate the regulation of the tobacco industry. The latter became, against all odds, one of the most conflictive points of the law. Last week Milei had ordered the root removal of the articles dedicated to this regulation that he had introduced in the initial version of Bases to prevent the whole from being slowed down due to this issue. “We are going to deal with it later,” a bishop of the head of state had said. But Tetaz insists, and in the Casa Rosada they not only reject his requests, but also accuse him of seeking prominence in the public scene at the expense of the founding law of the libertarians.
At the same time, the discussion on labor reform became more complex . With the same pragmatic attitude as in the delicate conflict over tobacco, the ruling party had agreed to remove the clauses that remove union dues and that put union leaders on a war footing. And in that crusade he had given the prerogative to the radical bloc to develop its own project, which was put in charge by the Cordoban “friend” Rodrigo De Loredo.
The scenario became complicated when radicals re-introduced, in other words, the articles that put the CGT on a war footing. And now, unusually, the Government faces the task of dismissing them again, to avoid muddying the field with the unions again. “In the end they are not going to remain, we are going to fly them in commission. "Everything has been discussed," confided a Milei advisor, determined to get the law passed no matter what. Facundo Manes, in the same Chamber, and Martín Lousteau, in the Senate, were against it.
Rogelio Frigerio, Maximilian Pullaro and Martin Llaryora, this afternoon in Santa Fe
Due to these unresolved issues, times are stretched longer than desired. The call to the plenary session of commissions was scheduled, since last week, for tomorrow. But there was no news from the Presidency of the lower house led by Menem. And this morning, in response to a query from Infobae, the presidential spokesperson, Manuel Adorni, assured that the first instance of the debate will most likely be postponed until next week.
“We are in no hurry,” said this afternoon an important official who works daily in negotiations with the opposition aligned with the Government. With the postponed schedule, if the debate in committee were actually held next week, the project would be discussed in the chamber during the first days of May, and would coincide with Labor Day. A panorama of overlapping marches and parliamentary debate that libertarians wanted to avoid and that would seem inevitable. Furthermore, the CGT, aligned with the Kirchnerist bloc of Unión por la Patria, determined to play with the times of the ruling party, called for a strike on May 9 to pressure from the streets against the reform, despite the changes that the Government agreed to introduce.
If the Government manages to settle the debate in Deputies, the most complicated section will still remain. The numbers appear even fairer in the Senate, where the reluctance of the Northern governors prevents it from reaching the essential minimum of 37 hands. The “anti-K bloc” of several parties that Victoria Villarruel had managed to form with 39 wills is decimated by the itches of the legislators who respond to the harsh governors of Patagonia. This afternoon, Francos, after his stopover in Santa Fe, was exploring the possibility of getting support in Santiago del Estero, the least expected place, where the powerful Kirchnerist chief Gerardo Zamora rules. If he listens to the right promises, the man from Santiago could offer him no less than three precious votes.
The deadline for Milei is the week before May 25. By then the President wants to gather as many leaders, legislators and senators in Córdoba to sign the great national agreement, which he called the “May Pact” to guarantee governability in the second half of the year. A plan that, without the regulatory leg that the Bases law represents, could become complicated.
