
The final battle of the central bloc
The most important task in the remaining three days before the parliamentary preparatory session on Wednesday is not determining who will get the majority and who will get the minority. It is to know whether the masses that are outside the polarization are Pyrrhonian-non-Pyrrhonian They can organize an “average” space.he center (The Great Centre) which rules between these two poles.
This is what the leaders mentioned in the article have been working on for a week. ExtremismGroup United Provinces, Federal meetingthe Civil Coalition And some other brands. The effort is to re-create the understanding that existed between them The centrist forces under the previous Peronist government Which united the PRO, UCR and Civic Alliance into an overlapping bloc.
They were at other times because of this arc they dealt with Mario Negri, Christian Ritondo and Maxi Ferraro He came to gather 100 deputies Who met in Negri’s office, but ran a coordination table that decided on the projects of each group without imposing a formation on the other.
In parliament, the “internal bloc” does not exist formally, but jurisprudentially, those understandings that the regulations call “political spaces” are recognized. This time, the United Provinces, USSR, Incointro and Civic Coalition are negotiating around the clock with the expectation of controlling some 26 national deputies.
The key to the end will be known on Wednesday when they meet Miguel Pichito Governor of Santa Fe Maxi Polaro. The United Provinces Bloc brings together representatives from the provinces State governors will seek re-election In 2027 – Pollaro in Santa Fe, Martin Larriura in Cordoba, and Nacho Torres in Chubut-.
This project is an anchor that gives the new center a distinctive appearance The complexity of endosymbiosis Of understanding. Added to these three areas Martin Lustow and Mariela Colettathe radicals of Capa, committed in 2027 to the fate of Jorge Macri, an associate of the radicals of Capa, who will also seek re-election, and with the permanent intention of Lousto to contest the leadership of Buenos Aires.
With these commitments, it is very difficult for them to realize that the head of the understanding is Pichito, the head of Encuentro. It is also difficult for them to recognize the leadership of the Civic Coalition, which previously formed the Encuentro bloc. Pollaro suggests Gisela Scalia to coordinate this arctoday Lieutenant Governor and President of PRO of Santa Fe and allegedly a former member of UCR Youth.
The government prefers them weak
Pichito, the majority representative Seniority In the reasonable opposition, he will not sit at the table where the governor’s nomination is being worked on. He claims, in exchange for acknowledging Encuentro’s participation in this greater understanding, that he will be there Project of presidential or national authority This is the framework for provincial projects.
And from Pollaro-Pichito’s speech on Wednesday, the possibility of that happening arises Bracket 26 representatives The merger of committees and any position of authority in the chamber can be objected to. Pichetto doesn’t want these types of accusations. Juan ChiarettiThe other powerful leader who makes up that group could be appointed vice president of the chamber, a position so far held by outgoing Julio Cobos.
The government would prefer to never create this arbitration space. If that happens, he prefers that Scalia be the group’s coordinator. The relationship with the ruler makes her vulnerable to pressure.
The government prefers to be weak and has always proven that Doubts towards PichitoHe, who has dominated Congress so far thanks to his experience and personality, will continue to do so, but the government would prefer that he not do so from any relevant position. They don’t know what they’re getting into.
The myth of the majority
The dream of the majority is one of the petty-bourgeois prejudices of Creole politicians. If not, let me say so Axel Kiselov. He has governed with a relative majority since 2019 in Buenos Aires, won re-election, crushed Vidal in 2019 by 14 points, and renewed regional power by the same margin on September 7.
On 26 October, they almost got to a draw with La Peronism – they lost by only hundredths in the dispute between Jorge and Tayana. José Luis Espert / Diego Santilli-. Despite these accumulated achievements, His administration is hobbled by dual harassment from his allies In Buenos Aires. Between the Christian run by Infante Maximo and Sergio Massa’s partners, they are strangling him financially as they refuse legislative permission for him to go into debt.
Before, they besieged him with projects that took away his governor’s powers, such as creating a fund to help municipalities that the Legislature would administer, and then a fund to help clubs in the county in the hands of legislators as well. the Third attack That was when they wanted to take away his authority from setting the election date to prevent him from doubling the election dates.
If Axel did not yield to demands for offices and other privileges from the Peronist forces themselves, There is already talk about not being able to pay salaries and so on. In addition, the national government is practicing direct harassment tactics on the province; He is not willing to give him anything. If your government falls It would be because of the treatment of his friends Peronism and non-Peronism, when Massa was invented by Javier Maile in Buenos Aires.
The strength of his stances doesn’t help Axel either. He did not exploit the possibilities of negotiating by relinquishing powerIt is a way to maintain and gain power. What’s the point of him becoming a resistance hero when he only has two years left in his term, can’t get re-elected, and his alternative plan is to either run for president and return home?
No one will pay you the price for resisting Christianity, or for your intervention in the resistance against Millism. That time has passed He has opportunities to move forward if he emerges from the chaos, hone his negotiating skills, and advances on the narrow path remaining for him in the next two years.
Politics was not created for fighting Available for agreement. Failure to do so brought Miley to the brink until (Donald) Trump’s knights showed up throwing some peels at him.
The last trenches in action
“I am not a whore for a single moment, I am the maze from which you cannot get out,” says the beautiful and wise Rosaliawhich descended upon us like a pop blessing. It’s not about politics, but it can be applied well because Politics is an easy business to get into, but very difficult to get out of.. That is why those who arrive as well as those who leave celebrate each end of the legislature.
In the first two years of this presidential term, Peronism achieved something Audit General of the Nation (AGN) It was left in the hands of a member of his party. Representatives of both houses of Congress won Juan Manuel Olmos, who was Alberto Fernández’s deputy chief of staff, exercises sole authority in the AGN at a time when his government administration’s expenditures between 2019 and 2023 must be examined.
He was assisted by the government, which did everything in its power to abort all agreements reached in the two chambers to merge this representation. Filled with that gift from heaven, Olmos submitted a working project to AGN next year, Expanding 50 areas Which includes measures from the Miley government.
Among them Banco Centra Gold DestinationL, the alleged bribery affairs in the National Disability Agency, the fentanyl case, etc. The ruling party responded with a reintegration project Some cases of the government of Alberto Fernández Such as the case of coronavirus vaccines and so on.
This hampered the final sessions of the bicameral audit committee, which became the last fighting trench in a war that had already ended. These battles were related to the election campaign It will be settled on Thursday in the final session of the two chambers for the year.
To open the champagne
The exchange of blame at the end of the season happens every two years. And on December 10th, a champagne toast will be served in some of the secret corners of political society. The years after A former official cannot be tried for illicit enrichment.
They will celebrate All those who ruled with Alberto Fernandez. From that day onwards, it will not be possible to hold them liable for the increase in their assets. This two-year period was authorized by the recent reform of the law approved in 2017 in the so-called criminal liability regime.
In the new version of Article 268 bis of the law It states: “Whoever, when duly requested to do so, does not justify to himself or to a person to whom concealment an asset of tangible material enrichment occurred after assuming a public office or employment and up to two (2) years after he has ceased to perform it, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term of between two (2) and six (6) years, a fine ranging from two (2) to five (5) times the value of the enrichment, and absolute permanent disqualification.”
Repair The fine increasedWhich was previously half of what the official allocated. The Public Prosecution and Investigations are closely monitoring this expiration date, as are the potential culprits, who are counting down the days, crouching down, indefinitely. Champagne appeared at midnight on December 9thIt is the day designated by the United Nations as anti-corruption day.
December 10 can be called a day Jubilee day of the corrupt. The illicit enrichment figure was created by Congress In the time of Arturo Elia It has a unique feature: it reverses the burden of proof and forces the official or former official to prove his or her innocence.
Until 1999 crime It had a longer statute of limitationsBut when the creation of an anti-corruption office for Fernando de la Rua was discussed, Peronism in Congress won his vote, reducing the odds of persecution to just two years after he left office.
In a review that received 268 repeats in November 1999 when the Public Ethics Act was approved, Peronism managed to preserve the two yearsIt is a period that repeats the reform that was voted on on December 1, 2017.
It ends with a bang
The end of the semester is always an occasion for disruption. The period beginning in December amplifies these effects because of the jump in the number of the ruling party which, if the black duck does not cross its path (it doesn’t even need a swan to stop it), It could take away the first minority of MPs from Peronism since December 10.
The government has done everything it can and has paid what is necessary to approach the non-Peronist voters represented by Cambimos so far. This has led to unprecedented cataracts from burcotta and transposition. He will now be able to go to the credit institutions and say that he already has the support of Congress for anything he wants to order.
The inability of Peronist and non-Peronist leaders to understand the process caused the PJD, PRO and UCR to lose unity and muscle, leading to a decline in their formal representation. To the most unexpected extentQ.
he Peronism is still associated with Cristina de Kirchner’s ankletsPRO has transferred its senior officials to the Milei government and LLA blocs in both houses, UCR has to elect a new president in two weeks and there is no one who wants to take charge of the franchise.
Stay away from this climate Silvia LospinatoWhat he said to this newspaper a week ago came true: “If it were up to me, I would take the position of deputy.”. Mauricio Macri asked her at the request of Cristian Ritondo, who didn’t want her in the bloc because she was a free thinker.
If she stays in the House, she will at least be caucus secretary, which Christian doesn’t want either. Jorge Macri gives her the award With the promise that she will be the head of the PRO bloc in the Legislative Council and a ticket to run for the position of Deputy Prime Minister in 2027.