Diego Santilli was hit Patricia Bullrich and contacted the governors again. The negotiations with the provincial heads – in several deliveries and until the last minute – were constantly monitored by the business community Carlos Guberman on the front line. Martin Menem And Lule Menem They also moved, as always with brass Karina Milei. And the ingredient is not missing Santiago Caputo. A kind Mega negotiation operation to ensure approval of the 2026 budget in the Senate. All with an unmistakable brushstroke: The text ultimately celebrated by Olivos was eventually shortened to Deputiessomething that just eight days earlier had caused extreme anger in the ruling party, to the point of spreading the nonsense of a new veto.
The government was able to celebrate its administration’s first budget. So far it has been managed with comfort two new versions of the law, which were approved at the end of the last Kirchnerist phase. And the turnaround was powerful, not only because of the double “cost” or reinforcement of the agreements with the governors, but also because of the way in which she had to deal with the blow she suffered among the MPs, which overshadowed the vote and entry into the upper house in a very short time.
The cutting of the loud Chapter XI of the budget had immediately provoked an excessive reaction from the government. Apart from the fleeting reference to a veto, versions of game modifications have been distributed, such as: Response to the rejection of university funding and the disability emergency. There was even a virtual threat or warning of cuts to the provinces. But in the face of reality, such ideas disappeared. The government I needed the votes from last night in the Senate. And you’ll need them in both chambers. for the upcoming initiatives, starting with labor reform.
On Friday evening, the focus was on the ceremonial adoption of the budget without any changes. It was a retreat with the idea of revenge. And the approval of the project came from the deputies became a celebration given the possibility of new brakes on other adaptations in education and research. In this context it was a triumph that can also be seen the complex and costly implementation of agreements with governors to secure votes on key initiatives for Olivos.
In this step by step, It seems almost impossible to establish a mechanism for stable and reasonably long-term agreements.. Compared to a conglomerate consisting of several projects, these are project-based agreements partner -but none, regardless of the logic of the individual deals- until Dialogistsincluding those that fulfill a double aim: to accompany and combat Peronism/Kirchnerism. The menu that no one hides includes various forms of compensationincluding the ATN, debts from previous tax agreements, individual cases of unfulfilled contributions due to non-transferred pension funds.
At the same time as the Senate debate, quite precise reports about this were circulating the “fulfillment” of agreements with governors of different political positions. Contains on the first line Peronists distanced themselves from Kirchnerism (Tucuman, Catamarca, Salta), Allies (Mendoza, Entre Ríos, Chaco) and provincial or non-aligned (Misiones, San Juan), among others.
The end of the budget tour was a cause for celebration for the government. with double the costs of negotiations and the postponement of labor reform as a result of last week’s setback among MPs. It wasn’t necessarily the result of a misjudgment, but of practice and of course the political conception.
From the start, it was striking that the government announced that the change in the law would allow it to move forward almost a closed book. And even more so that it was intended later Force items without noticethat is, without questioning governors and leaders of opposition parties, but ready to speak in Congress. In view of the self-inflicted setbacks, the looks – some of them our own – pointed this out Luis Caputo Already with the fallen budget chapter Federico Fallenegger ultimately postponed to February due to additional tensions related to labor reform.
Something paradoxical happened with the government movements from October onwards: oversized the election result and at the same time Waste the moment to build a more or less solid alliance system. After the post-election celebrations, the ruling party had almost forty days to reach an agreement regarding the extraordinary meetings. had the impact of electoral successes -reinforced by the reversal of the situation in Buenos Aires- and with greedy governors. November in particular was a very bad month in terms of participationwhich made the air resistance situation worse the coldness of consumption and decisions of the central power that affected the distribution of ATN.
The government can of course celebrate, an old formula: keep these fronts open without giving factual answers to the provinces’ claims, would allow him to articulate other negotiationsparticularly for the projects it is planning under the title “structural reforms”. This is also in the budget path Reality doesn’t always correspond to your wishesI still take care of them “Logic of Politics”according to the definition of Javier Milei by endorsing the pact with Kirchnerism to appoint members of the Auditor General’s Office of the Nation.
The other striking sign of the government’s offensive after the October elections was the announcement of a Express procedure the labor reform. The aim of sanctioning it before the end of the year was spread. But it had to be done in February and at harvest outside public intersections – which immediately disappeared with the postponement of the debate – reserved characters by experts in the field due to the “low technical level” of the text and due to possible and diverse articles that can be prosecuted if they are approved as written in the original.
We will see what happens, including the date for the second series of extraordinary meetings.
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