2024-01-21 19:10:25
He president of the Chamber of Deputies, Martín Menemassured that the ruling party will obtain the opinion of the commission of the omnibus lawthe key step so that the megaproject can be raised to the Lower House.
“We are working on reach agreements to have a majority opinion on Tuesdaythat is the objective,” Menem explained in radio statements. At the same time, he went deeper: “Obviously, there are 257 deputies, each block has its ideological belonging, each one has its recipes and its way of seeing reality.”
“We have our mark. We are not going to negotiate anything that puts the freedom of Argentines at stake“We are not going to work for that to happen,” he added.
In detail, the most important modifications of the Omnibus project
“There are some things that are enriching and that further improve the project, and there are others that are not, we are taking everything that improves the quality of our project, which is really very ambitious,” he said.
And he added: “For things to happen that have not happened in the last 100 years, we have to do what has not been done in 100 years, and that is why the project is voluminous and the time it is taking. Even so, we are coming at a fairly fast pace. accelerated, that is, those suggestions are taken that further improve the project we already have, this is the spirit of the work we have been doing.
Last Thursday, in a meeting in Menem’s office, a group of dialogue-oriented opposition legislators analyzed with other leaders of La Libertad Avanza modifications in the initiative to unblock the negotiation and direct the viability of the project in the Legislative Branch.
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In the middle, the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) plans a strike with mobilization for Wednesday.
The details of the changes:
► Retirement mobility formula: suspension of the current law without a replacement as the menu intended was left off the menu. Two options remained. The first is to introduce a new mobility formula indexed by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), and that salaries are updated according to the inflation of the previous month. The other option is to directly withdraw the article on the suspension of the retirement mobility formula and postpone the discussion until later, in a separate law.
► Withholdings: 33% of withholdings on soybeans are maintained, but export duties to regional economies, which in the original project were raised to 15%, are reduced to zero.
► Privatizations: The package of public companies subject to privatization is maintained but YPF is removed from the payroll, which in this way will continue to be a joint-stock company of mixed ownership with majority state participation. It was agreed that in the event of any privatization, the Government must send the specifications with the terms and conditions to a bicameral commission of Congress. In addition to YPF, the UCR, We Make the Federal Coalition and Federal Innovation want to prevent the privatization of Banco Nación, ARSAT, YMAD and Nucleoeléctrica.
► Electoral reform: The proposal for uninominality of constituencies is left aside, the application of which seriously affects the representation of the smaller parties in the Chamber of Deputies. The current system is maintained.
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