La Derecha Diario The Senate will seek to break the State with the insistence on emergency in disability.
Kirchnerism is attempting to forcibly impose an emergency law that was vetoed by President Javier Milei
The Senate of the Nation is on track to play a leading role in a new chapter of the parliamentary offensive against Javier Milei's government. Next week, the Kirchnerist opposition will seek to approve the insistence on the so-called Disability Emergency Law, disregarding committee procedures and moving swiftly toward the chamber.
According to sources from the Kirchnerist interbloc, they have the two-thirds majority needed to pass the bill: "If you have the two-thirds to approve it, you have the votes to bring it to the floor", admitted a legislator from Unión por la Patria.
The maneuver is clear: to use the so-called "social agenda" as a campaign flag just days before the Buenos Aires elections, in a desperate attempt to regain political ground. Next Thursday, September 4, the final vote could take place, just three days before the ballot boxes open in the country's most populous province.
The bill in question proposes to automatically adjust service fees for inflation starting in December 2023 and to create a non-contributory pension equivalent to 70% of the minimum benefit. During its passage through the Chamber of Deputies on August 20, the opposition gathered a special majority of 172 affirmative votes, against 73 rejections from libertarians and allies, and 2 abstentions. This figure exposed the breakdown of party discipline in several blocs.
In the Upper House, when it was debated in July, the bill received 55 positive votes, 0 abstentions, and 17 absentees, far surpassing the 48 votes needed out of 72 to achieve the two-thirds majority. Today, with the electoral climate and the impact of adverse polls for Kirchnerism, everything indicates that the numbers will tilt even further in favor.
Although two other bills were introduced in the same parliamentary round—one to toughen penalties against tax evasion and another to modify the time zone—everything suggests that the opposition will focus on the disability chapter, leaving more technical debates aside.
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