The Government received the Pichetto bloc and sends the “base law” to Deputies

The Government puts its foot on the accelerator and in the next few hours it will send the new version of the “base law” to the Chamber of Deputies, after a last round of dialogue carried out this Monday with deputies from Hacemos Coalión Federal and the UCR, the two key blocks to guarantee the approval of the project.

The Chief of Staff, Nicolás Posse, and the Minister of the Interior, Guillermo Francos, first received deputies from the bloc led by Miguel Pichetto in the Hall of Shields of Casa Rosada, and later they will do the same with representatives of radicalism, with Rodrigo From Loredo to the head.

In addition to Pichetto, Ignacio García Aresca from Córdoba (right-hand man of Governor Martín Llaryora), Emilio Monzó, Nicolás Massot, Florencio Randazzo and Margarita Stolbizer from Buenos Aires, and Ricardo López Murphy from Buenos Aires attended. The president of the Lower House, Martín Menem, the deputy chief of staff, José Rolandi, and the Secretary of the Interior, Lisandro Catalán, also participated.

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“We sent observations. There was a dialogue. There is a much better perspective than how the omnibus law was treated at the time. We have a positive vision,” Pichetto highlighted to the press, and announced that “probably” the project will enter the Lower House this Tuesday and next week it will begin to be discussed in committees.

For his part, Massot pointed out that three aspects were addressed. The first is the new non-taxable minimum of the Income Tax (which would be called the Personal Income Tax). According to the deputy, there was a request to the Government to “increase even more” the floor. Although there had originally been talk of $1,200,000, Francos later placed the amount between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000.

Massot also reported that “the monotax will be increased so that what a monotributist, a self-employed person and a worker in a dependent relationship ends up paying is fair”, in order to “avoid distortions” and settle a “historical debt”.

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Both the monotax and Profits are points that will be processed separately in Congress, within the framework of the fiscal package that also includes the moratorium and money laundering. For these last two regimes, Hacemos once again claimed a “prize” for good taxpayers that reaches not only individuals but also companies.

The deputies also insisted on including the labor reform in the “base law” so that “employment becomes expansive” and “end the trial industry,” in the words of Massot. The changes in labor legislation are currently incorporated into DNU 70/23 and suspended in Justice.

With 22 members, Hacemos is one of the key blocks to unlock the approval of the project in Deputies. The other determining space is the UCR and, in order to seal support in the radical ranks, Posse and Francos also plan to receive the head of the bench, Rodrigo De Loredo, and his peers Karina Banfi and Soledad Carrizo.

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The “rebellious” sector of radicalism, led by Facundo Manes, decided not to send emissaries to the meeting with the officials, arguing that “the laws are discussed in Parliament” and therefore “there is no reason to negotiate anything in the headquarters of the Executive.”

Rejection of the DNU

Almost a month after the rejection in the Senate, Unión por la Patria still could not gather the votes to definitively overturn the DNU 70/23 in the Chamber of Deputies due to the resistance of the bulk of the UCR and We Make the Federal Coalition, two blocs who want to collaborate so that the content of the decree is approved, to a large extent, through a law.

In an attempt to add critical mass, the Peronist/Kirchnerist bloc, led by Germán Martínez, organized for this Tuesday at 2 p.m., together with the Left Front, a meeting with specialists in constitutional law, academics and lawyers’ organizations, which They will provide grounds against the decree that modified and repealed some 300 laws.

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In the run-up to the event, the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, made a statement that, paradoxically, served as an argument for the opposition. On the social network , which established limits on quota increases.

“We from the Government are going to do everything in our power to defend the middle class,” declared Caputo, although he did not announce any specific measures. His words were replicated by Kirchnerism and the radical senator Martín Lousteau, who had also voted against the DNU.

Retirements

On the other hand, on Wednesday the debate on retirements in the Social Security and Social Security Commission will resume in Deputies, where the opposition seeks to advance with a law that surpasses the DNU that modified the mobility formula. The blocks seek to sign an opinion (there could be one or several) and take it to the venue, putting the ruling party on the ropes.

After government officials revealed, in last week’s briefing meeting, that they will not grant more compensation for January inflation (only 12.5% ​​of the 20.6% shown by the index for that month is recognized). ), the opposition will try to move forward with a law to restore assets.

At the same time, Deputies will advance in the formation of commissions to launch parliamentary work. This week, 17 meetings will be held to appoint authorities, including Health (the Peronist Pablo Yedlin would remain president), Political Trial (the libertarian Marcela Pagano would take over) and Criminal Legislation (the “bullrichista” Damián Arabia would remain).