2023-12-05 00:48:29
Buenos Aires Correspondent
As preparations progress for the legislative Assembly where he will be sworn in as president, Javier Miley finishes polishing what will be the founding law of his government and is preparing to test his minority in Congress, following the relationship with the PRO suffered due to the election of Martín Menem as president of the Chamber of Deputies.
The final text is not yet finalized. Some versions They talk regarding an “omnibus law” that would contain fundamental reforms in economic, tax, labor and even electoral matters, and others indicate that it will be divided into more than one project. One way or the other, Milei will seek to take advantage of the momentum of the ballot boxs to impose its management imprint from the first minute.
The future Minister of the Interior, Guillermo Francos, announced that the legislative package will propose a strong deregulation of the economywhich will take ideas from an extensive work prepared by the former head of the Central Bank, Federico Sturzenegger.
Furthermore, Francos confirmed, in dialogue with La Nación+, that “one of the issues that is being analyzed to incorporate into the law” is the elimination of PASO (Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory Primaries) to reduce public spending.
Last week, the vice president-elect, Victoria Villarruel, met in the Upper House with the head of the interblock of senators of the Frente de Todos, José Mayans, and her peers Anabel Fernández Sagasti and Juliana Di Tullio, who asked her regarding the laws with which Milei plans to inaugurate his administration.
According to Mayans, Cristina Kirchner’s successor He didn’t give too many details.but suggested that three projects might be submitted: the Budget for 2024, that would contain the first spending adjustment; he regrouping of ministries (they will go from the current 18 to eight or nine); and a public emergency declaration to grant the Executive Branch greater powers.
In that sense, Milei can look in the mirror of Alberto Fernández: upon taking office in 2019, the president sent a law of “social solidarity and productive reactivation” of almost 90 articles, with which he declared nine emergencies (economic, financial, fiscal, administrative, pension, tariff, energy, health and social).
In this way, the declaration of the emergency will not only be the first management tool that Milei hopes to have, but also the way to to establish the “inheritance” received from Fernández’s management, just as the current president did at the time to differentiate himself from the government of Mauricio Macri.
Regarding the new government organization chart, it is not ruled out that the broad stroke will be defined by decree instead of a law. Milei had defined that she would govern with eight ministries, but there might be nine because the Health Ministry would remain, which was initially going to be transformed into a secretariat to fall under the orbit of the new Ministry of Human Capital, which Sandra Pettovello will direct.
He Budget 2024 The new scheme must then be adjusted, where addresses and organizations such as part of the “chainsaw plan.”
“What has been done is a restructuring of the public organization chart. There are organizations and ministries that are overcrowded and will have to be reduced, but when one reduces it does not mean that all functions end. Some unnecessary things are going to disappear, because they simply cannot be paid for, and others will be readjusted,” Francos explained.
Milei’s challenge: Menem’s appointment and the extraordinary
As soon as you take command, Milei will call extraordinary sessions to enable the processing of the project(s) for the remainder of December, January and February. The next step will be to form the commissions that must intervene in the debate and appoint their authorities, which represents the first challenge for La Libertad Avanza, which will have only 38 deputies and 7 senators.
This numerical weakness was more exposed following the possibility of a parliamentary alliance with the PRO was weakened, following Martín Menem’s nomination to preside over the Chamber of Deputies.
The Buenos Aires native Cristian Ritondo aspired to occupy that place, but the new government finally decided that the line of succession would remain in the hands of the ruling party. “following the democratic tradition of the last 40 years”. In this way, another non-partisan was also left out, the Peronist Florencio Randazzo.
Menem was received this Monday by the current president of the Lower House, Cecilia Moreau, to begin the transition. “It was a cordial meeting,” both stood out in this medium. Although there was no photo, the two seemed in good spirits. The Rioja native draws attention to the school of his father, Eduardo Menem, author of treatises on parliamentary procedural law.
On Thursday at 12 there will be the preparatory session where the 130 elected deputies will be sworn in and the new authorities will be voted on. In addition to the presidency, three vice-presidencies must be held. The Frente de Todos (now Unión por la Patria) will fight first, although they prefer not to reveal the name of the candidate.
Milei’s swearing-in and preparations for the Legislative Assembly
With a certain level of uncertainty, preparations began for Sunday’s Legislative Assembly, where Milei will be sworn in as president. Against the clock, the incoming and outgoing authorities are working on organizing the ceremony, which will begin at noon and might bring some surprises.
The biggest novelty has to do with Milei’s idea of give a message to the peoplefacing the Plaza del Congreso, following his speech in the Chamber of Deputies and before moving to the Casa Rosada for the swearing-in of his ministers.
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