The frustration of the national government given the impossibility of signing this Saturday the May Pactthe great political objective set by the president Javier Milei in the National Assembly on March 1, led the ruling party to place responsibilities on the opposition. “It is unusual that after five months Congress has not given a law to the president«, criticized Guillermo Francos, Minister of the Interior.
The note from Francos, the official in charge of forging alliances with opponents so that the ruling party increases its parliamentary muscle tone, expressed the impotence of La Libertad Avanza to approve the key projects of the Executive Branch in Congress.
For weeks now, the Senate has been discussing the “Bases law”, an initiative that achieved half the approval of Deputies. Its approval was the condition that Milei imposed to summon the governors to sign the ten points of the May Pact.
“We are close, but issues always appear that complicate the approval of the opinion in the Senate. We continue working next week. We will see if the plenary of commissions decides to make an opinion,” Francos lamented about the law that proposes a drastic total deregulation of the economy.
“He has no comparison with the rest of the presidents. Nobody asks for a blank check, but everyone has had laws so that they had powers,” was another complaint from the minister.
The laws approved to the rest of the presidents
Presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni (much celebrated by the libertarian militancy at the Luna Park show on Wednesday night) also attacked the “non-dialogue” opposition.
“In the last 40 years, the National Congress approved almost 5 thousand laws, an average of 122 per year. In the first year of the Government of Néstor Kirchner, 155 laws were approved, in that of Cristina Kirchner 125, in that of Macri 101 and in that of Alberto Fernández 70, including the delegation of extraordinary powers and the extension of the eternal quarantine,» he listed. to exemplify what he considers a legislative blockade against the libertarian government.
“However, in the administration of President Milei, the most voted in history, the approval is being zero laws in his first year,” he insisted, using a debatable electoral historical comparison.
What happens with Nicolás Posse
Both Adorni and Francos, this one to a lesser extent, ruled out that a political crisis has been brewing within the Milei Government and the imminent departure of chief of staff Nicolás Posse is being evaluated.
The rumors ran strong from the beginning of this Thursday at the Casa Rosada, perhaps fueled by Posse’s absence from Milei’s show at Luna Park for the presentation of his book “Capitalism, socialism and the neoclassical trap.”
“The version about the departure of Nicolás Posse is absolutely false and we do not know who may have the intention of suggesting this change,” emphasized spokesperson Adorni in order to put an end to the rumor. However, throughout the afternoon, several news portals insisted on the version.
At night, LN+ He aired an interview that Luis Majul did with Milei hours before and regarding Posse he neither confirmed nor ruled out his departure. He did say, however, that what happens with the “Bases law” would be a determining factor in analyzing the work not only of the Chief of Staff but of his entire team.
For ten years, Milei and Posse shared tasks at businessman Eduardo Eurnekian’s Corporación América, where they established a friendship. In different interviews, the president placed Posse at the same level of political importance within his government as his sister Karina, general secretary of the Presidency, nicknamed “The Boss.”
With the political noise in the background (which has been heard for a few weeks now in the Casa Rosada) Posse headed the cabinet meeting on Thursday, which Milei did not attend (as has been the case for some time), nor did “The Boss.”