The bill that provides for a package of economic and social reforms proposed by the government of libertarian president Javier Milei suffered a severe setback in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies this Tuesday (6).
After being approved in general terms on Friday (2), the text returned to the original committee after facing resistance and some defeats in the particular vote on several articles considered key by the government.
The so-called Ómnibus Law, which contains the bases and points for the freedom of Argentines, according to the Milei government's slogan, addresses issues about the privatization of public companies, tax and spending reductions, among other measures. She was already quite dehydrated, having lost half of her initial articles, when she was generally approved on Friday.
The government bloc, represented by deputies from the A Liberdade Avança coalition, was unable, for example, to secure sufficient support from other parties and deputies to approve the sections of article 5 of the law, which grants the Executive broad powers to modify the structure and functioning of public administration. Faced with the lack of consensus and pressure from the opposition, the bloc's leader, Oscar Zago, a friend of Milei, asked for the project to return to the Constitutional Affairs committee where dialogue should continue.
According to information from the Argentine newspaper ClarinZago attributed this decision and the impasse to the breach of agreements by some provincial governors, who allegedly influenced their deputies to vote against several articles of the project.
“There were deputies who committed to monitoring [a aprovação do projeto] through the governors and the governors did not keep their word”, he stated, also denying that today's action is a defeat for the government.
President Javier Milei, who is on an official visit to Israel, expressed his dissatisfaction with the outcome of today's parliamentary session in a message published on his X profile (formerly Twitter). “The caste against the people”, called the president, who accused the political sectors of opposing the change that Argentines voted for at the polls.
“We know that it will not be easy to change a system where politicians have become rich at the expense of Argentines who get up every day to work,” said Milei, who promised to move forward with his government program “with or without the support of diligence policy that destroyed our country.”
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