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Martín Menem on the debate on the Base Law: “We are going to try to start on Monday and finish before May 1” - Infobae
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Martín Menem sobre el debate de la Ley Bases: “Vamos a tratar de empezar el lunes y que termine antes del 1° de mayo”
El presidente de la Cámara destacó el trabajo parlamentario que realizó el oficialismo durante estos meses y proyectó que ambas iniciativas alcanzarán la media sanción
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April 26, 2024
The president of the Chamber highlighted the parliamentary work carried out by the ruling party during these months and projected that both initiatives will achieve half a sanction
The president of the Chamber of Deputies, Martín Menem (REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian)
After the ruling party achieved an opinion for the Base Law - known as the Omnibus Law -, the president of the Chamber of Deputies , Martín Menem , referred to how the debate is expected to develop in the chamber. “We are going to try to start on Monday and finish before May 1,” he projected.
After the two commission plenary sessions, Menem called sessions for next Monday, in which the projects of the Base Law and the tax reform will be discussed. Thus, the session could last between 40 and 48 hours.
In this regard, the head of the Chamber explained, during a conversation with Eduardo Feinmann on the air of LN+ , that one of the main difficulties with the treatment of next week's initiatives is the May 1 holiday, for the Day of the Worker , because several legislators must return to their provinces for various reasons.
Consequently, he stated: “We are going to try to start on Monday and finish before May 1, obviously, it will be with little time to rest, or without time to rest.” Later in the interview, he again referred to the duration and, although he refused to specify an extension time for the session, he assured that the debate will be “marathon”, since the two initiatives add up to between 300 and 400 articles. .
Then, Menem highlighted the parliamentary work carried out by the ruling party to be able to bring positions closer together and avoid a new defeat in Congress , as happened in the first days of February, when they achieved approval in general, but the legislation ended up falling when it was treated article by article. article.
The debate of the Bases Law in the plenary session of commissions
“What we have sought throughout this period has been to prioritize the agreement of wills and the affirmative votes that we can have, yes or yes we want a labor reform but for that to happen, like any other law, we need to have 129 votes. So, we have been prioritizing article by article of both the Base Law and the fiscal package to be able to go down to the premises with a very important degree of certainty,” he mentioned.
In this context, the president of the Chamber referred to the legislators who will accompany the reforms as “allies who have been giving their opinion and have left their mark.” “It has been a broad dialogue table that I believe we are building an important majority to give half a sanction to these two packages. Above all, the Base Law, which was the first. Well, the fiscal package, which was initially incorporated, we have decided to separate it to speed up parliamentary treatment, but we are very eager, very confident that this will definitely end up coming out,” he projected.
Regarding the differences with the original project that the Government tried to have approved in the extraordinary sessions of Congress, Menem clarified that the draft “has been a little shorter” and added: “We have raised it perhaps with less haste than in January and in more detail and we have gone point by point, article by article, removing the issues that we knew could not happen to finally arrive at today where we have obtained the opinion on both, knowing almost with certainty what would have to happen by when "Let's go down to the compound."
The Omnibus Law fell when the debate began in particular (Gustavo Gavotti)
When asked about the votes they would have confirmed, the deputy for La Libertad Avanza assured that they have more than 130 votes in general, while in particular they would have 126 or 128 votes. “Some stated that they were going to abstain, but we believe that both laws would have to come out without a problem beyond a long, arduous debate, where each one will present their points,” he said.
President Javier Milei commented during his speech in front of the Libertad Foundation that he would have told Guillermo Francos , his Minister of the Interior, to "throw away the Bases Law", due to the positive results that Argentina registered after the deregulation of the economy.
Given this, Menem assured that he had not yet spoken with the president, but highlighted that Milei “has expressed his willingness to strictly maintain the objective that he set during the campaign and it is the one that he has been fulfilling every day since he has been the president of the nation".
After listing the achievements achieved by the administration, such as the financial surplus and the reduction in country risk, the president of the Chamber of Deputies considered it necessary for Congress to begin to “show the world that it is understanding where the President is going.” For this reason, he stated that we must "stay the course from the parliamentary perspective" and asked for "a lot of responsibility from all those who work on the project."
