As they say in football jargon: the government He made one play too many, and it cost him dearly.. By being involved right from the start the repeal of university funding and emergency disability laws in the opinion of the 2026 budget – an obsession of the president Javier Milei– caused the Chamber of Deputies to reject an important chapter of the text, now see the budget balance in danger.
In summary, By avoiding voting on a single article, he sacrificed an entire chapter: self-inflicted damage to the governing party itself overestimated its strength as the first minority – after all, his bloc doesn’t reach 100 MPs – and he didn’t think about that The (supposed) Allied governors would value their votes too highly to repeal both standards. In the end they finished him off stab a dagger in the backperhaps because they didn’t charge as much as they intended.
Without Chapter XI of the project, the budget no longer has any right to exist, the ruling party dramatizes. The angriest are threatening a presidential veto if the Senate approves it, following the approval of the Chamber of Deputies. The warning sounds exaggerated, although it is real This is a key chapter, without which the budgetary balance would be at risk.
The detail
This chapter contained 12 articles. Most irritating was number 75, which established this Repeal university funding and disability emergency services lawstwo regulations that were vetoed by the executive branch but were later upheld by both houses of Congress. The government suspended the validity of the judgment and, not being satisfied with it, proposed its annulment in the opinion submitted to the court. After reaching the first minority of the body, he became emboldened and assumed that the Allies would move against him.
It didn’t happen: the deputies who respond Raul Jalil (Catamarca) voted against, as did two of the three members of the Independencia bloc from Tucumán Osvaldo Jaldo. The Salteno Bernardo Biella Like the radicals, he also distanced himself Karina Banfi (Buenos Aires) and Diogenes Gonzalez (currents). But the ruling party did not wait for radical allies like Gerardo Cipolini (Chaco) and Darío Schneider (Entre Ríos) They will release his hand.
He Emergency Disability Act Tax Costs It is estimated between 0.25% and 0.48% of GDP According to various forecasts, the impact will be mainly due to the intake of new pensioners and the compensation of service providers. In the meantime, The Higher Education Financing Act has a fiscal impact of 0.23% of GDP (2 billion pesos this year), according to the Congressional Budget Office (CPO).
In addition to this article, Chapter XI contains the following:
In addition to these articles, the ruling party consciously – and, in the opinion of the pro-bloc, with malicious intent – included the concession that it had promised to the city of Buenos Aires regarding the transfer of the 1.55 percent shareholding outside the automatic drip. By including it in this Chapter
The head of the Pro-Block, Cristian Ritondoimmediately noticed the move and attacked the president of the body, Martin Menem. The anger erupted when the pact between the libertarians and the Kirchner bloc to fill the three positions in the General examination of the nation He displaced Macrismo, who had been promised a place. If Pro’s anger continues, another self-inflicted injury to the ruling party, sanctioning future legislation could become complicated.