2024-04-29 08:30:00
The Chamber of Deputies will begin this Monday the debate on the new Law on Bases and Starting Points that negotiated with the dialogue blocs for more than a month, following the resounding failure of February, and that will include the fiscal section. The blocks that collaborated with the government’s objectives will adopt a new attitude and they will seek to promote many of the issues that they left aside to avoid hindering the agreement.
The “friendly” opposition will promote issues resisted by the ruling party, such as the recomposition of retirement benefits with inflation since January, the dismantling of special regimes such as that of Tierra del Fuego, educational financing and the increase in the tobacco tax for all companies. This turn in the conduct of the UCR, We Make Federal Coalition and Federal Innovation has two explanations.
On the one hand, They intend to prevent Javier Milei from continuing to point them out as those to blame for the missteps of his administration. For the other, They consider it essential to set an agenda that feeds the sense of belonging of their own electorate. In parallel to their support for the initiatives of the Executive Branch, these legislators will try to take control of the room and force the introduction of other issues.
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Federal Innovationthe bench that responds to the provincial ruling parties of Neuquén, Misiones, Salta and Río Negro, will seek the restitution of the articles that raised the increase in internal taxes on tobacco from 70 to 73% and eliminated the minimum tax on cigarettes, which benefits Pablo Otero, from Tabacalera Sarandí. The same strategy will be adopted by part of the bloc led by Miguel Ángel Pichetto, which will aim to dismantle special tax regimessuch as the one that benefits the electronics industry in the province of Tierra del Fuego.
Retirements will also be part of the agenda that the dialogical triad will seek to impose. These blocks agree to appoint the Budget Commission, chaired by José Luis Espert, to deal with the projects that aim to deepen the recomposition of pension assets. Although Milei defined an update using the CPI and a one-time increase of 12.5%, legislators They will insist on a major repair that includes all of January’s inflation, 20.6%.
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For its part, The UCR will devote itself to its university activism and will promote the approval of the bill for the Financing Regime of National Universities. After the signing of the opinions of the Bases law and the fiscal package, the radicals rushed a request for the president of the Education commission, Alejandro Finocchiaro (PRO), to debate this matter. The UCR will also insist on its fight once morest the unions. De Loredo’s space promoted a labor reform that sought to dismantle the main union funds, among which was the elimination of mandatory “union dues”, as well as the limitation of strike blockades.
This was not the only concession that the ruling party had to make to obtain the ruling. At the last minute he also reversed the consolidation of public securities in the hands of the Anses Sustainability Guarantee Fund (FGS).. At the request of the governors, We Make the Federal Coalition demanded the government’s commitment to comply with the payment of debts with the pension funds not transferred to the Nation. This point, among others, will be part of the discussion that will have as protagonists in Congress the provincial leaders, who eagerly await economic relief in this new parliamentary round.
The labor reform still gives something to cut
A source of conflict that has not yet been quelled has to do with the labour reform, which was in suspense until the last moment, but was finally reflected in the majority opinion in a compressed version. It was the Solomonic way of “cutting in the middle” between two antagonistic positions.
The UCR hammered home an ambitious labor reform, which even interfered with union interests by eliminating solidarity dues for non-members. At one point, when it emerged that the government was granting the radical request, the head of the We Make Federal Coalition bloc, Pichetto slammed his fist on the table, threatening not to vote on the Bases law, unless the chapter on labor modernization was completely left aside.
The man from Rio Negro is convinced that this issue does not pass in the Senate and does not want time to be wasted in the Deputies. In the end, a compressed version of the reform was included, basically limited to the repeal of fines for non-registration, extension of the trial period and the implementation of the optional severance fund as an alternative to compensation.
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However, the UCR and the Civic Coalition will try to make changes and additions to the premises regarding labor reform and the tobacco tax. Furthermore, true to its tradition of not granting “superpowers” to any president, Elisa Carrió’s political force will not vote on the delegation of powers.
There are also many doubts regarding what may happen with the reversal of the fourth category of Income Tax, whose non-taxable minimum the government intends to place at 1,800,000 pesos for single workers and 2,200,000 pesos for married people with children. Radicalism is divided regarding this government proposal and there might be a setback in this regard.
As if that were not enough, there are deputies from the UCR and HCF who They are not convinced of the “goodness” of the Large Investment Incentive Regime (RIGI) of the Bases law, and might vote once morest or propose changes in the venue to favor investments less than the 200 million dollars that the Executive Branch set as a floor to access the benefits.
The deputies of the “dialogue” spectrum are at a dilemmatic crossroads: they assure that they want to give Javier Milei the tools to govern and put aside excuses, but are not satisfied with the final wording of some articles and they know that if the president applies his veto power, an “all or nothing” fundamentalist might once once more order the withdrawal of the project in full session, raising the accusing finger once morest the entire opposition.
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