2024-02-08 01:06:38
In the midst of his international tour of the Middle East, the president Javier Miley He offered an unconventional explanation about what happened in the Chamber of Deputies after the vote that returned the omnibus law to committee.
From Israel, where he was after holding a meeting with businessmen in Jerusalem, Milei shared his vision of the legislative process and did not skimp on describing opposition deputies as “criminals.”
“In the session of the Chamber of Deputies, the political caste, as we call that group of criminals who want a worse Argentina, who are not willing to give up privileges, began to dismantle our law in order to support the mechanisms by which they steal from it. to the Argentines. In that sense, I gave the order to lift the project,” the president revealed.
Through his platform X account, Milei hinted that he had prior knowledge of what was going to happen in Congress and that he took advantage of the deputies’ refusal to “expose” them to society. This strategy, which the president called the “principle of revelation,” was highlighted by some users of the social network, who stated that Milei had won another political battle.
Minutes before these statements, Milei had interacted with X users, who highlighted that the president “knew this was going to happen and it was to show people how exposed the ‘politicians’ were.” To this, Milei responded with a forceful “COOORECT”.
After the bill’s return to zero, the Minister of the Interior, Guillermo Francos, stated that the government is in a dilemma about whether to continue with the treatment of the law. “The debate has already taken place. It goes to voting, if the treatment of that law continues, something that we have not resolved,” he said in an interview with Radio Rivadavia.
Furthermore, he added: “The government is calm, governing with the elements it currently has and with reasonable macroeconomic results, so we are going to discuss the possibility of continuing to address the issues that the law included and that were important for the country.” .
For their part, voices from the Cabinet assure that, despite the setback of the megalaw, the administration can guarantee that the goal of fiscal balance will be maintained. The head of the Treasury Palace, Luis Caputoinsisted that “the particular non-approval of the law, yesterday, does not affect in the slightest our economic program, our commitment to stabilize fiscal accounts.”