Without much room for error, The ruling party will seek a sanction in the Senatein an atypical session scheduled for the day after Christmas, the 2026 budget draft, a tool that until now the government of Javier Milei I had despised it, but on this occasion must be shown to the markets and above all with negotiating International Monetary Fund Debt payments due next month.
The meeting is scheduled for this Friday at 12 p.m The “Tax Innocence” bill is also on the agenda.which loosens the crime of tax evasion and makes it easier to launder dollars hidden outside the financial system. For this reason, it is also called the “dollars under the mattress” project.
In a report by LN+They reviewed the importance of approving the budget for the government to the negotiations about the imminent maturity of the debt with the IMF.
The agreements with a part of Kirchnerism and the prominence of Patricia Bullrich represent a very important political victory for the LLA.
If the project is approved as adopted by the Chamber of Deputies a week ago, what Bullrich is aiming for, that It will be the first budget written by Milei’s Libertarian government. For the past two years, the national administration has governed with redirected budgets, without congressional approval.
A misjudgment by the ruling party could cause the outlook to turn 180 degrees.. The worst-case scenario for the government would be that the text would be sent back to the Chamber of Deputies for a second review just two working days before the end of the year.
Political activity began very early. A parliamentary work meeting was called at 10:30 a.m. in which the block leaders will determine the course of the meeting, which is expected to be extensive due to the tenor of the topics and the resistance that the Kirchnerist bench will face.
Bullrich’s goal is to reach this meeting with the certainty that it has at least the votes of the dialogue opposition to approve the project as a whole.The agreements are therefore quite advanced in order to avoid surprises, particularly when voting on the initiative.
For this reason, The chairman of the ruling party in the Senate called for a prior meeting with representatives of the dialogue blocs.
A priori, the new head of the ruling bloc in the Senate, Patricia Bullrich (federal capital) He is confident that he will have the votes to approve the budget draft in principle.
The ruling party will even have the support of Peronist senators from the Federal Conviction bloc, that integrates the Interblock Popular under the chairmanship of the Kirchnerist José Mayans (Formosa).
If, as everything suggests, this happens, It will be the first time that Peronism will vote divided in the Senate, a new sign of Cristina Kirchner’s dizzying loss of power in Congress.
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