The Kirchnerism bloc in the Senate launched an unprecedented institutional coup by calling a session for this Thursday without the signature of the Vice President of the Nation, Victoria Villarruel, the body's natural chair.
The objective is to break the fiscal balance achieved by Javier Milei's Government and attempt to force a change in the provisional presidency of the Senate to place a Kirchnerist leader in the presidential line of succession. The move is led by Senator José Mayans, head of the opposition bloc.
In today's session, they are requesting to address five bills that, if approved, would represent a fiscal cost close to 2.5 points of GDP, a situation that would destroy the fiscal surplus, generate a massive deficit, and trigger a new economic crisis.
Senadores kirchneristas.
Among the initiatives are the disability emergency, the reinstatement of the pension moratorium, the increase in pensions and bonuses for the minimum, as well as the forced distribution of National Treasury Contributions (ATN) to the provinces and a redistribution of the revenue from the liquid fuels tax.
However, far from being initiatives aimed at helping people, the only objective of the Kirchnerist opposition is to attempt to destroy Milei's Government through an institutional and economic coup.
The attempt to remove the current provisional president of the Senate, libertarian Bartolomé Abdala, to replace him with a Kirchnerist senator, is of unprecedented gravity. The provisional presidency is the second position in the presidential line of succession, and its modification without the endorsement of the head of the Senate implies a rupture of the current institutional order.
In this context, the Minister of Economy, Luis "Toto" Caputo, stated: “They may keep trying, for sure, since we're three months away from the elections,” referring to the coup-driven projects of the opposition.
Javier Milei, presidente de Argentina.
Meanwhile, Guillermo Francos, Chief of Staff and one of the most relevant figures in Milei's Government, made statements on A24 regarding the special session scheduled for this Thursday starting at 2:00 p.m.
“This is like a kind of institutional coup by the Senate of the Nation organized by Kirchnerism, isn't it? It's Kirchnerism that's proposing to carry out a session that wasn't called by the President of the Senate, as is usually the case,” Francos said.
The initiative was promoted by the Unión por la Patria bloc along with provincial allies, with the intention of moving forward with the consideration of the aforementioned bills. However, the concern is not only about the content of the measures, but also about the legality of the legislative procedure used to bring them up for discussion.
“Clearly, this is not debatable,” the Chief of Staff emphasized. “A two-thirds majority is needed to hold today's session, as well as a two-thirds majority for any issue addressed in today's session,” he concluded.
