2023-10-29 23:31:55
After the elections of October 22 and in the run-up to the runoff between Sergio Massa and Javier Milei on November 19, the Barbechando Foundation, specialized in agribusiness issues in the Legislative Branch, made a first estimate of the new representation in the National Congress.
The aforementioned foundation considers that 32 legislators have a direct connection – whether family, professional or political – with the agricultural sector, half of whom have a mandate until 2025. In the sum of 257 deputies and 73 senators, 329 in total, that The number of “agro-legislators” is a limited 10%.
The survey concludes that more than half of the legislators would agree on issues pending resolution that agriculture has been demanding for years, such as export duties (withholdings), market intervention and the seed law.
“We found a Congress without majorities, Unión por la Patria will be the first minority in both the Deputies and the Senate, but it would not achieve the 129 deputies or 37 senators necessary to start a session,” reflected Barbechando,
And he highlighted that “in this new scenario of thirds – more visible in Deputies – “liberal and federal/provincial legislators will be key players for the approval of laws.”
In the replacement, there are 15 legislators linked to the field who are leaving, six from Unión por la Patria, eight from Together for Change and one from a federal party.
The La Libertad Avanza (LLA) bloc, with 35 new seats in the Deputies and 8 in the Senate, “will be essential to unblock laws and for treatment in commissions, since it will have presidencies, a situation that it has not achieved so far,” analyzed.
In the opposite direction, Together for Change (JxC) will have a dozen new governorships and many fewer seats in the Chambers of Deputies and Senators.
For now, “there is a universe of almost 40% of legislators in both projected chambers and from all political parties who, as of December 10, can work in the line of development of the agrobioindustry,” Barbechando highlighted.
It’s not something extremely naive. This is what happens in countries like Brazil. And something like this happened in the crucial 2008 debate over mobile withholdings.
To advance in this sense, in Barbechando they believe that working on a joint agenda, outlining public policies “is the first step to promote the Agricultural Legislative Front,” which they propose.
“The renewal of both chambers creates an opportunity to work in an organized manner with legislators from all blocks on public policies” for the development of the sector, they noted.
Especially following the drought, which exposed the central role of agribusiness in the entire Argentine economy, in Barbechando they see it as a priority to expand this minority core and “highlight the importance of the sector for the country, to legislators and politicians” who are aware of it,
With this objective, the entity maintains that organized consensus must be achieved, work on a common agenda and outline public policies, as well as measure the impact of laws and work on a proactive agenda. Likewise, he considers that it is necessary to “act with a unified vision on a coordinated front” with a view to the “development of the agrobioindustry, which is positive for Argentina as a whole.”
This text was previously published in Clarin Rural
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