2024-08-24 21:41:45
The President Javier Miley and the former president Mauricio Macri They met in the last few hours at Quinta de Olivos, where they held a private meeting and reaffirmed that the relationship between them remains on “good terms”, despite the fact that the PRO rejected the SIDE’s DNU.
They met last night in Olivos and had Milanese for dinner, a menu that is now customary in meetings between the two. “The relationship remains the same, on good terms,” the sources consulted told the Noticias Argentinas agency, seeking to dispel the versions of discomfort between the two after the support of the PRO deputies to the legislative rejection of the DNU that granted millions of funds to the new structure of the SIDE.
The meeting took place hours after the session in the Chamber of Deputies in which the opposition managed, with the support of a part of the PRO deputies who answer to Macri, to reject the decree that increased the Intelligence Secretariat (SIDE) by $100 billion.
Indeed, the presidential spokesman, Manuel Adornihad described on Thursday as “ungrateful” the members of the PRO bloc in the Chamber of Deputies who supported this rejection. In the usual press conference, the official considered that “there is ingratitude on the part of the PRO bloc.” “Macri did not vote. But it is part of the game of democracy and the division of powers,” Adorni qualified.
The spokesman’s criticism came hours before a new front of discussion on the Congress agenda was opened, given that the Senate subsequently approved by two thirds the project that increases pensions by 8.1% and that aligns its monthly update with the Consumer Price Index (CPI), an initiative that had already been partially approved by the Chamber of Deputies and about which President Milei had warned that, if approved, he would veto it.
Also with PRO votes, the approval was given by 61 affirmative votes, eight negative votes and zero abstentions, in general; and in particular, the opposition managed to protect all articles sensitive to the national government with two thirds.
In addition to the 8.1% increase and the change in the update formula, the initiative provides that, in March of each year, a 50% increase will be applied to the variation in the Average Taxable Remuneration of Stable Workers (RIPTE) over the variation in the CPI of the previous year.
“They’ve been screwing us for eight months”
The relationship between former President Macri and the Government of Javier Milei is becoming increasingly tense. This Wednesday, after the PRO rejected the DNU that assigned $100,000 million to the SIDE, the relationship reached its worst moment and the former president said: “They have been fooling us for eight months.”
The confrontation began when, after the PRO deputies in Congress rejected the official initiative, the libertarian supporters began to attack the yellow party, which had initially shown itself to be an ally of the Government, reported Ámbito.
“We are not and never were of the same ideology. You sold rotten fish to your electorate and surrendered to the agenda that the Kukas defend in the world. That is why you failed in your government and in the elections. The difference is spiritual,” published on X “el Gordo Dan”, one of the most influential Twitter users in the presidential environment.