The activity will take place again on Monday Nation’s Chamber of Deputies when the five commissions convened by the ruling party are formed.
Starting this morning, lawmakers will meet in the Annex rooms to form and vote on the powers of the committees Budget and Ministry of Finance; constitutional matters; criminal law; Legislation on labor and natural resources and protection of the human environment.
The one that is currently attracting the most attention is the budget, as it is the only one of the laws that has already had a previous debate and, according to ruling party sources, an attempt is being made to pass it within 12 working days.
The schedule I designed Advances in freedom To achieve the goal, which has already been communicated to opposition lawmakers, is to advance the budget debate on Tuesday and Wednesday, govern on the final day and go to the premises on Thursday to give a half-sanction.
“It needs to get to the Senate on Monday the 22nd so they can approve it on December 29th or 30th,” one Libertarian lawmaker explained. Lawmakers themselves expressed confidence as to whether they have the necessary signatures for a decision and the votes in the chamber. “If we managed to govern when we were in the minority, we can certainly manage it now.”
In opposition, they assert that they want a budget next year, but show differences with the official project.
He Peronism will insist in its own opinion that the text proposed by the Executive is an “adjustment”.
On the side of Joined, The decision taken in the last few hours is to follow one’s own opinion, based on that of the MP. Nicolas Massot from Federal Assembly.
Massot noted at the time that the project involved the application of laws approved by the government congress and the executive refused to carry it out. In particular, reference was made to the application of the Disability Emergency, Garrahan and Budget laws for national universities.
The Buenos Aires provincial deputy pointed out that his draft budget “will have a surplus of 0.9% and not 1.5%. The law will be respected and the financing will come from general revenues.”
Parallel to that Advances in freedom She will try to move forward in the other commissions and, although this is not planned, there may be a formal plenary session of the commissions on some issues. In particular, the draft of a National Commitment Act for Financial and Currency Stability.
This project, which has met with strong opposition from opposition lawmakers, stipulates in its Article 4 that any law “establishing or authorizing expenditure not provided for in the general budget shall come into force as soon as the corresponding items are expressly included in the general budget law of the financial year following the fiscal year in which it was approved.”
The point of conflict is Article 10 of the standard, which provides for a change to the criminal code It introduces that “the official who, in violation of the budgetary rules provided for in the Law on the National Commitment to Fiscal and Monetary Stability, dictates, authorizes, authorizes or executes regulations or administrative acts that modify or increase the public expenditure provided for in the general budget of the national administration, without having the duly accredited resources, shall be punished with a prison sentence of ONE (1) to SIX (6) years and an absolute disqualification for twice the length of the sentence.” for financing.”
With this rule Lawmakers are aware that the executive branch wants to limit the right of deputies and senators to present laws that change the expenditure established in the budget, citing as an example the regulations adopted this year, but which the government has refused to apply.
“The only person who can change budget items is the chief of staff when Congress enacts a law requiring the removal of resources from one item to reallocate them to another. They complained about Kirchnerism, but if we cannot establish this discussion, we will become a notary and the executive branch“explained an opposition MP.
Advancing this legislation will require work in the Commission on Criminal Justice, Constitutional Affairs and Budget, an option that is being explored in the office of Menem.
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