a political ineptitude by the representatives that caused a hurricane in the Senate

The parliamentary majorities enable the governing parties to make progress across the board. Force decisions and bear costs. Governing as a minority requires the opposite: precision, calculation and the ability to recognize boundaries. The problem arises when electoral victory is confused with real power. Something of this seems to be happening at La Libertad Avanza, which acts as if there are numbers that are second to none. and realizes late that the political system is not ordered according to his wishes.

What happened during treatment at Budget Deputies was an example of this enormous political ineptitude the ruling party, which led to a bitter defeat in the vote on an important chapter of the law.

The Awkwardness It had an unforeseeable consequence: due to the anger it caused in the allied blocs of the lower house, the Senate’s consideration of the labor reform pushed by Javier Milei was blocked. The plan of Patricia BullrichChairman of the Libertarian group, was that the law would provide for a half-sanction on December 26th. Now it should have started in February.

If you need to look for those responsible Everyone shows to libertarian Martin MenemPresident of the Chamber of Deputies. He was responsible for the parliamentary strategy to deal with the budget, which failed.

In the ruling party they asked themselves this Thursday who was responsible for counting the votes. One more thing: why not move to an interim space?

Menem’s decision detonated connecting with his most natural allies, the PRO lawmakers.

“Martín Menem chose who his allies are. They are the governors of the north.”he agreed Clarin Cristian RitondoHead of the yellow bloc of deputies. The reference is clear: for Ritondo, the ruling party chose to vote for Peronism instead of the PRO and the UCR.

Two main things happened in the parliamentary session.

Firstly, the government has included Chapter XI of the Budget Law a series of demands from his allies -such as the monies that the nation owes to the city of Buenos Aires, which is expected Jorge Macri– along with changes to the current Cold Zones Act, Justice Funds and the repeal of the Disability Emergency and Education Funding Acts

A any combination which simply aimed to add all possible voices. If you wanted to give more resources to the judiciary, you had to vote to repeal the two laws that the executive branch vetoed and that Congress insisted on.

The MPs interpreted it as “Blackmail” and the unforeseen happened: Chapter XI was rejected with 124 votes against, 115 votes in favor and 2 abstentions.

“What they needed to achieve was the budget law, and instead of focusing on that goal, they chose the culture war and the repeal of two laws. That’s what happened for them.”said a PRO MP.

The second thing that happened was the maneuver of Surprisingly, allow the processing of the appointment of the three auditors, corresponding to the deputies in the AGN.

The positions had been vacant since March 2024 and at dawn this Thursday out of nowhere Their appointments were voted on following an agreement between LLA, UxP and the Northern Governors.

Each room hires an examiner. The libertarian Rita Almadathe camper Juan Ignacio Forlon and the former deputy Pamela Calettiwho answers the President of Salta Gustavo Saenz. The governor was a candidate for vice president Sergio Massa in 2015.

In the dialogue opposition they claim that two of the three auditors come from Peronism and one of the three corresponded to them. Mauricio Macri encouraged Jorge Triaca. Although the UCR was weakened after the October elections, it was looking for a seat.

They say that the agreement between the ruling party and Peronism for the exam was made on Tuesday. The next day, when the budget session had already begun, Ritondo and Martín Menem crossed paths.

“You have chosen new allies, it is your right” the chairman of the PRO bench told the Libertarian. “But my right is not to let up and not let them think I’m a fool,” Ritondo has been completed, as they say in the Macrista block.

Now the PRO will go to court in administrative disputes: You understand that the appointments are unconstitutional since they were made during the extraordinary sessions and the audit matter is not on the agenda.

When it comes to MPs, the LLA has 96 members and is 33 short of the quorum. To achieve this, he had to rely on his allies on Wednesday. What if they no longer simply responded to a finger snap?

After the budget and AGN meeting, an allied representative spoke of the loss of confidence in the government and from now on It would be the duty of the ruling party to establish a quorum with other blocs.

It sounded like a threat from the air. But that’s exactly what happened later in the Senate when action on labor reform was blocked. The heads of the Allied blocs met with Patricia Bullrich and informed her that they would not support the project for the time being due to the events in the House of Representatives. The former security minister managed to obtain the Commission’s opinion.

The dialogue members warned him that he would have neither a guaranteed quorum nor the votes if he brought the initiative to the ground next Friday the 26th. Also was in danger the adoption of the 2026 budget, on which Bullrich wants to obtain an opinion this Friday so that it can be voted on on the 26th.

The famous butterfly effect. A shudder in the House of Representatives caused a hurricane in the Senate.

This Thursday, from the factories of the ruling party, they proposed to the libertarian bloc of the Senate to introduce in the opinion of the Budget Committee – or in the chamber before the vote – the repeal of the Disability Law and the Education Financing Law.

The answer was: not crazythat if they did, they would suffer another defeat. They say that the one who insists on the repeal is the Minister of Economy Luis Caputo, who sees everything from a budgetary perspective. But in Congress the perspective is political.