The government is enthusiastic about setting up the commissions to harness the strength of the first minority of MPs build an automatic majority in the enclosure. They will succeed in this thanks to the fact that the President of the House of Commons, Martin Menemsucceeded in getting the plenary session to delegate powers to allocate seats.
For the upper echelons, the problem is not insignificant. “Today we have made it possible for Martín Menem to be President of the Chamber of Deputies for two more years We are the ones who will lead the commissions in Congress“, the President emphasized expressly Javier Milei at the Cronista Leaders Meeting.
The President’s closing speech referred to the topic precisely because he took part in the preparatory session in the House of Representatives that day, where he thanked the PER and the UCRthe governing party received the necessary majority Menem, Karina Milei’s right-hand woman, has the key to the orders.
What is the scope and how does it work? Basically, the regulations stipulate in Article 105 that the commissions “as far as possible” “should be integrated in such a way that the political sectors are represented in the.” same proportion as within the chamber“.
Historically, the presidents of the chambers were given the power to interpret it as they wished Menem will then be able to set by hand the quotas that each policy area will have in the commissions..
Union for the Homeland had suggested that commissions be distributed according to system D’Hontthe one used for elections. There was even talk of one secret agreement with the other blocks to mark the field for the President of the Chamber of Deputies, warning that his strategy would harm the opposition, but in the end it was not successful. The Interior Minister’s dialogue was crucial, Diego Santilliwith his former colleagues from Congress.
However, the LLA warned that the D’Hont system would be worse for the smaller blocs, leaving many without representation. There was also movement until the last minute in the search for more support to discuss positions on the commissions form intermediate blocks between forces that allow them to add numbers.
Exactly for this reason The third minority was undecided and the third vice presidency could not be appointed. On the one hand, there is the Interblock, which he invented Cristian RitondoHead of PRO, with the UCR des allied governors who leads Pamela Verasaythe one from Buenos Aires (exUCR) Karina Banfithe Santa Cruz native Jose Garrido and the CENTER Director: Oscar Zago. There are 22 MPs in total.
On the other side is the intermediate block United Provinces represents the provinces of Córdoba, Chubut, Santa Fe, Jujuy, the radical opponents of Martín Lousteau and Lourdes Arrieta, who immigrated from the Coherencia bloc. In itself it is the largest block with 18 MPs, and it comes to its area Federal Assembly and the Citizens Coalition to also achieve 22 seats.
There is a fourth force that the ruling party is watching closely and wants to prioritize: the Federal Peronists who threatened to join an interbloc that was ultimately unsuccessful. This is the extension of Federal innovation What was the man from Salta planning? Gustavo Saenz together with the missionary Hugo Passalaqcuathe catamarkan Raul Jalil -which took 3 of the 4 deputies responding to a block, apart from UP-, the Tucumán Osvaldo Jaldo and the Neuquino Rolando Figueroa.
They are also considering including the Santiago company in this conglomerate Gerardo Zamorawho split his bloc in the Senate and could do the same with the – no more and no less than – seven representatives who still coexist in the Senate German Martinez.
In total they would add another 22 MPs who would do this It would make it easier for Menem to reach 129 almost without breaking a sweatsince he would only need to convince 12 others to reach a quorum. Fishing is easy in the intermediate block PRO/UCRbecause although the yellows’ unease about the abolition of their bloc continues, in LLA they consider that “they have no margin” not supporting the reforms and having the support of the provincial leaders of radicalism.
Essentially and according to sources, the ruling party has confessed to this The Chronicler, Menem will develop a strategy so that the allies he includes in the commissions will automatically form a majority later.
A priori, those who should specifically constitute those who deal with the agenda of extraordinary meetings: These are Budget and Ministry of Financeresponsible for deciding on the 2026 budget; Criminal law And General legislationwhich are also necessary for the debate on the Tax Innocence project. All three are priorities for the first stage in December.
When the other projects are presented, it will then be determined which further commissions should put them together in the summer the rest is left to the ordinary. In itself, the elected senator Patricia Bullrich Consider creating one Bicameral commission to discuss the new criminal code: The matter remains under review as some warn that seeking an opinion from both chambers could slow the process.