Miley wants to close out the year with the budget approved by Congress

As new senators and representatives are sworn in, the ruling party’s times are accelerating. Part of the parliamentary offensive designed by Casa Rosada in December will be focused until the last days and hours of the year. President Javier Miley wants to get a budget approved by Congress before the end of 2025. He has been ruling the country for two years and the last budget was approved. It was the fourth year of Alberto Fernández’s term, and for this reason, the text of this rule relied, for two years, on the executive’s discretion on the numbers questioned due to the depreciation of the currency accumulated since 2022. The unprecedented delay in getting an approved budget is an underlying tension with conservatives of all political persuasions. That is why the possibility of concluding December with a National Accounts Plan, negotiated and approved by the legislature, is the first of Miley’s goals for the extraordinary period.

During the next 15 days, the ruling party will seek to organize narratives related to the relationship with the provinces. There have been two years of misappropriation that has put the May Council, launched by the President on the night of July 9, 2023, in crisis. This body is about to complete its mission and its findings will be used by the executive branch to present it to Congress. The aim is for the start of the next discussions to have a framework of prior legitimacy that would also allow the government to prevent the launch of the postponed May Charter and its subsequent Council from remaining in a quagmire of broken promises.

The deadline for submitting the final document is December 15th. Currently only drafts are circulating, with a very slim chance that they will include two specific points in the charter: pension reform and a new system of federal participation. The government will submit its text on December 9. The MPs’ timetable aims to appeal the Budget Committee’s opinion that was abandoned two weeks ago, incorporate changes and obtain a new opinion as of December 11, with the possibility of holding a session on the 16th. It will then be submitted to the Senate, with a margin of maneuver indicating December 28 or 30 with final approval.