The president of the Chamber of Deputies, the official Martin Menem, seeks to accelerate agreements to approve the Base Law: “Perhaps it is not the project we want but the one we let’s reach a consensus.» Menem is betting that the initiative advances in the Senate to discuss it again in the Lower House, because will have changes.
However, Menem warned that Kirchnerism will block the project: «They have hindered Argentina’s growth, 20 years have destroyed everything they had in front of them.» In turn, he highlighted the “dialogue†opposition: “They are seeing a way to collaborate introducing reforms, accompanying, parliamentaryly we we depend on many agreements, of a lot of dialogue to be able to move forward.”
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The president of the Chamber of Deputies was «optimistic» that the law will be issued «soon» and that this will further boost the first data that is already being seen about the economy. «, which will allow us to begin the path of recovery, for growth to be much faster, for inflation to fall more quickly,» in statements to Radio Rivadavia.
The ruling party is betting that this week there will be a ruling on the Bases Law in the Senate
Menem was optimistic that the Base Law «will soon finish in the Senate» and then return to the Lower House, because it will have changes, like the senator from Libertad Avanza, Francisco Paoltroni, who said: «I am optimistic that there will be a ruling this week, I think the law will come out,» in statements to FM Milenium.
As anticipated TN, The Government aims to obtain this week the commission opinions of the Base Law and the fiscal package to discuss the projects in the Senate in the first days of June, while it finishes negotiating the signatures of Martin Lousteau (UCR), Pablo Blanco (UCR) and Guadalupe Tagliaferri (PRO).
In the ruling party they assure that they have the votes for the general sanction in the Upper House and maintain that they have already launched a strategy to maintain a similar voting coalition in the Chamber of Deputies, which must deal with the modifications that are made to it. to the projects in the Senate. They plan to reach July with full sanction.
Mauricio Macri demanded that the Senate approve the Bases Law: «It is important to give Milei tools»
The statement published by Mauricio Macri to demand support for the Bases Law in the Senate. (Photo: X @MauricioMacri).
The ex-president Mauricio Macri he complained to the Senate that approves the Bases Law, He advanced his support and the support of the PRO senators, and said that the project has «the necessary and urgent reforms to get out of the crisis,» in his account. x.
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- “The Senate is discussing these days the Bases Law, which already has half the approval of Deputies, a Law that I personally support and that the PRO senators are going to accompany, because it has necessary and urgent reforms to get out of the crisis, reforms that we as a party have been demanding or proposing for years.
- “Is the law perfect? No, but in politics nothing is. Given the extreme fragility in which our economy continues to be, I believe it is important to give President Milei these tools to fulfill the mandate that the Argentines gave him to lower inflation and organize the economy. And the time we have to do it is not infinite.†.
- “In the PRO we were always in favor of these changes. We have been saying for a long time that we must encourage investment, modernize labor standards and eliminate the employer State, even more so when these public companies are loss-making. Furthermore, we did all this, or tried to do it, when it was our turn to govern. How are we going to oppose each other now? Us we are in favor of change and of the transformation, whoever governs governs. We must be generous to support those who propose reforms that we consider urgent and structural, even if they are from another party†.