Javier Milei has suffered this Thursday the greatest political defeat since he assumed power, 18 months ago. The opposition in the Senate, united and without dissident, approved a package of laws that increase fiscal spending. The most relevant is a 7.2%pension rise, to which.
The government saw behind the vote an attack against the fiscal surplus, its main electoral flag, and came out as a thrombus to the president already warned that he will veto the norms and take them to justice, in an attempt to delay their application until at least after the October elections. Wait, he said that “freedom craws into the polls” and “degenerates fiscal” are paid from December to a Parliament that will no longer be just an opposition bastion.
The government expected a legislative defeat of magnitude, although it was not prepared to be with the two thirds of the votes, a magical number that would suffice to reverse a presidential veto. The 24 governors of the country had already advanced that they were fed up that the government celebrated as a great triumph a fiscal surplus that is financed, in large part, with the money that the nation does not send to the provinces as co -participation. These funds are collected by the central government, but do not belong to it. During the last weeks, two projects agreed to increase the arrival of money from Buenos Aires. The Kirchner opposition rose to the movement of the provinces and in the same session approved the rise in pensions, the emergency declaration for people with disabilities and a Buenos Aires city razed by floods.
The governors, many of them government allies and key in the approval of the laws that Milei considered essential for their State’s drain plan, had released their hand. Patience is over when freedom progresses decided, in addition to drowning them financially and refusing to negotiate, disembark in their districts with their own candidates for the legislative elections. They were thoroughly and if the president intends to defend the surplus, he must negotiate with them.
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Prior to the session, the government had denounced without nuances that Kirchnerism, which he chose as an enemy despite the variety of the opposition vote, was behind an attempt with an institutional coup. The first shot was from the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, converted in Falcon de la Ultraderecha after her jump from the ranks of Pro, Mauricio Macri’s party. “Kirchnerism plans an institutional coup in the Senate, planting the vice president a self -consisting meeting and piercing the economic successes of the government that have cost us so much to Argentines,” the minister wrote in X.
The government’s argument was that senators cannot call a session if there is previously a call from the presidency of the Senate, in the hands of the vice president, Victoria Villarruel. He completed the denunciation strategy the head of ministers, Guillermo Francos, who is usually the friendliest face of the cabinet. “I think that the irregularity of the session is clear. It is a kind of self -consisting by Kirchnerism to treat all laws that affect fiscal balance. This becomes a kind of institutional blow of the organized by Kirchnerism,” he said.
The vice president maintains a bad relationship with Milei, which at this point can already consider a total break, and received friendly fire. In need of enemies, in the Casa Rosada they blamed Villarruel the responsibility of guaranteeing with his presence a session they considered invalid. Milei tried her as “traitor” in a speech he gave in the Chamber of Commerce, while Bullrich accused her of supporting “the most abject political corporation in history.” Villarruel, a denial of the dictatorship, blamed Bullrich that in his youth he had integrated “an orga of terrorists” – by his past in Montoneros, the Peronist guerrillas – and reminded him that the Senate, where the provinces are represented, has the power, if he gets the quorumto meet “or not” the agenda of the day.
To the discursive confusion of the government the trolls of the ultra -right financed with public money. He Gordo and, The name in Networks of Daniel Parisi, a youtuber who, as an inorganic spokesperson officer of Milei, called to “take out the tanks to the street”, while adding messages that asked to dynamite the Senate “with all the legislators inside.” El Trumpanother account linked to the Casa Rosada, asked Milei to “put together popular militias, delivering citizen weapons to facilitate the closure of Congress.” The Peronist senator Juliana Di Tullio advanced in the middle of the session that she will file a complaint for “public intimidation, crime apology and threats.”
