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Vote by vote: how is the count in Deputies for the Omnibus Law - Infobae
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January 31, 2024

The dialogue opposition will provide a quorum for today's session, called for 10, and will support in general. However, there are those who will mark dissent in particular. Between Unión por la Patria and the Left Front, each chapter has 104 votes against the base

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How each block would vote in the session for the omnibus law

The Government of Javier Milei is hours away from starting the first major battle that will define the way in which the administration will continue and will test a month full of negotiations, contradictions, comings and goings, and modifications that will be visible this Wednesday in the Chamber of Deputies when the debate on the Law of Bases and Starting Points for the Freedom of Argentines begins at 10 , popularly known as the “Omnibus Law.”

In advance, the La Libertad Avanza bloc , with its 38 legislators , is far from the 129 necessary to maintain the quorum and the majority to approve articles without the need to reach a consensus with the opposition. It is a fact that will add to the will of José Luis Espert with his Avanza Libertad monoblock and that, despite the abuse suffered in recent times, Carolina Píparo , with the Buenos Aires Libre block that she shares with Lorena Macyszyn , will also support the mega legislation.

The dialogue opposition - made up of the PRO, the Radical Civic Union, We Make the Federal Coalition and Federal Innovation - has already guaranteed the ruling party that it will provide a quorum and that it will vote favorably on the treatment in general. However, the key will be in the voting in particular, in which dissent was expressed from different spaces. After the Executive Branch gave in on more than 100 articles, the differences continue to be in the powers delegated to Milei, the privatizations of public companies, the extension of the PAIS Tax, changes in biofuels and fishing.

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President Javier Milei (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)

Each chapter of the project starts with a base of 107 votes against : the 99 deputies of Unión por la Patria who remained after the departure of the three Tucumans who respond to Governor Osvaldo Jaldo and the 5 who are part of the Left Front announced their opposition since the very presentation of the project. The socialists Mónica Fein and Esteban Paulón, and the Córdoba native Natalia De la Sota, from We Make the Federal Coalition, joined in.

For this reason, the 34 legislators of radicalism, the remaining 20 who respond to Miguel Ángel Pichetto 's bloc and the 9 of Federal Innovation are key to defining the fate of the ruling party.

To the 41 positive votes that La Libertad Avanza would begin with the allies of the Espert and Píparo blocs, the 37 from the PRO bloc will be added, whose president, Cristian Ritondo , indicated at the beginning of this week his willingness to accompany the Government. Up to this point, the ruling party has 78 wishes. And it would reach 82 accounting for the 3 former UxP who respond to Jaldo, who made up the Independencia bloc.

In the same vein as Ritondo, the head of the UCR bloc, Rodrigo De Loredo , expressed his support despite Milei's repeated insults towards the centenary party. Radicalism will generally accompany his will, but we will have to wait for his behavior in particular. With his support, the law reaches 115 positive votes, but at the same time the bloc has the key to remove several articles.

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Deputies debated the Omnibus Law in committee (Franco Fafasuli)

We Make the Federal Coalition warned that it will guarantee a quorum, but that it will raise “dissidences in several articles.” Of the 23 deputies, Natalia De la Sota from Córdoba , and the socialists Mónica Fein and Esteban Paulón would vote against. In this way, with the 20 from Pichetto's bloc the ruling party would reach 135 votes. To those we must add the 9 from Federal Innovation and two more votes from Álvaro Martínez (La Unión Mendocina) and Paula Omodeo from Tucumán (CREO). Thus, the ruling party would reach 146 votes in favor of the law in the general vote.

For its part, Unión por la Patria, in addition to having deputies from the Left and the socialists, could climb to 108 votes against thanks to Santa Cruz residents Sergio Acevedo and José Luis Garrido, although their positions have not yet been confirmed .

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Guillermo Francos, the minister in charge of the negotiations; Cristian Ritondo, Rodrigo De Loredo and Miguel Ángel Pichetto: their blocks will define the fate of Milei's law

In this way the general panorama would be defined. Just as there are legislators from the dialogue opposition who could vote negatively on particular articles along with Kirchnerism and the Left, it is not ruled out that Peronist deputies vote in favor of articles that benefit their provinces.

The negotiations continue and the Government knows that its Base Law may continue to lose articles along the way. He also knows that he cannot afford a defeat in what is expected to be the longest session in history.
 
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