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The PRO, the Peronists of Tucumán and key absences: how the Government managed to impose the university veto - Infobae
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El PRO, los peronistas tucumanos y ausencias clave: cómo logró el Gobierno imponer el veto universitario
El oficialismo logró obtener 84 votos y blindó la medida presidencial frente a los 164 que obtuvo la insistencia de la ley
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October 09, 2024
The ruling party managed to obtain 85 votes and protected the presidential measure against the 160 obtained by the insistence on the law
By David Cayon
At 11:20, the session began in the House of Representatives (Photos: Adrián Escandar)
The Government faced the legislative battle on Wednesday to maintain the presidential veto of the project for financing higher education institutions and managed to prevail in the Chamber of Deputies. The ruling party maintained the presidential veto in a session that, by the standards of the Chamber of Deputies, was quite agile and fast. At the time of the vote, the board showed that the insistence reached 160 votes, which was insufficient to achieve two thirds against the 85 of those who voted against and signed the end of the discussion on the funds for higher education institutions. On the board there are 84 votes because the vote of deputy Araujo was taken by the Secretariat.
Although the definition was open for a good part of the session, in the corridors of the National Congress it was speculated that the Government was close to reaching the 84 votes that would allow it to block the insistence and protect the veto. Finally, that was the number that it obtained and, in this way, it obtained the second great parliamentary victory for La Libertad Avanza in the Chamber of Deputies, after the veto on retirement mobility. The panel was completed with five abstentions contributed by the four deputies from Misiones of the Encuentro Federal block and Pablo Cervi, from the group of radicals who have been supporting the Government.
Eight absent deputies did not appear on the panel: three from Encuentro Federal —Jorge Ávila, Ricardo López Murphy and Alejandra Torres—, who was at the Palace yesterday but last night claimed to have Covid; for the UCR, Fernando Carbajal; for the PRO, Héctor Stefani; for the MID, Oscar Zago; Yolanda Vega from Salta and María Fernanda Ávila, from Unión por la Patria , who arrived at the Legislative Palace but notified the presidency of the Chamber that she was not in condition and left.
Cristian Ritondo, from PRO
When looking at how each of the blocks voted, it is found that due to the insistence of the law, Unión por la Patria contributed 98 votes. The UCR added 27 of the 33 of the block, since the deputies Luis Picat, José Tournier, Martín Arjol and Mariano Campero - four of those who voted in favor of the veto for retirement mobility - maintained the same position and supported the Government. The remaining two are Fernando Carbajal, who was absent on leave, and Pablo Cervi, who abstained, which favored the blocking of the veto. To that number was added the support of Encuentro Federal, which contributed 13 of the 16 seats it has.
Meanwhile, the Civic Coalition (6) and the Left Front (5) blocks added all of their members for the positive vote. For the PRO, there were two in favor of the law: Álvaro González and Héctor Baldassi. A particular case was the Por Santa Cruz block, which has two members. One supported the insistence —Sergio Acevedo— and the other voted in favor of the veto —José Garrido—. “Governor Vidal put an egg in each basket,” they pointed out in the chamber regarding the actions of the deputies who answer to the provincial head of state.
The Federal Innovation bloc was also 50% in favour of the budget law. The deputies from Salta and Río Negro supported it, while the other 50% corresponded to the four deputies from Misiones —Alberto Arrúa, Carlos Alberto Fernández, Yamila Ruiz and Daniel Vancsik— who abstained , which ended up helping the ruling party.
German Martinez and Cecilia Moreau
The FE bloc deputy, Lourdes Arrieta, voted for the first time against La Libertad Avanza and supported the positive vote, opposing the veto. The two deputies from San Juan who make up the Production and Labor bloc, Nancy Picón and María de los Ángeles Moreno, also voted against the veto, along the same lines. Added together, the total is 160 deputies against the presidential decision.
In terms of supporting the veto, the ruling party was the one who led the way. La Libertad Avanza contributed 39 votes of its own, the PRO did the same with 35, and one from CREO joined this group —Paula Omodeo—, two from the MID —Zago is traveling—, four radicals (Campero, Arjol, Tournier and Picat) and three deputies from Tucumán from the Independencia block, together with the deputy from Santa Cruz, which allowed them to reach 84 votes.
In the run-up to the session, pessimism reigned among several legislators who sought to push through the rule, not only because they suspected that the Casa Rosada managed to convince several governors who believed they were on their side, but because they understood that it was a bad precedent before the discussion of the 2025 Budget. "If we lose this, which is 0.14% of GDP, how are we going to discuss items when negotiating the Budget?" said a Peronist deputy quite upset by the result.
