After agreeing with the PRO, We Make the Federal Coalition and the majority sector of the UCR the new version of the omnibus law and the fiscal packagethe Government chooses polarize with Peronism and the hardest sectors of the opposition. Close to the President, they let it be known this Friday that, although both laws are passed, They don’t plan to invite everyone the governors to May Pactthe institutional agreement that Javier Milei called on March 1 in his speech in front of the Legislative Assembly.
The Government rushed to distance itself even though they were never certain that the provincial leaders most at odds with the Casa Rosada would attend the summit scheduled for May 25 in Córdoba. The Minister of the Interior, Guillermo Francos, never explored the possibility of agreements nor did he meet alone with the man from Buenos Aires. Axel Kicillof not even with the pampas Sergio Ziliotto. In Balcarce 50 they are not excited about a wink from the governors of Tierra del Fuego either, Gustavo Melella; Formosa, Gildo Insfran; and La Rioja, Ricardo Quintela.
In the Cabinet they do not want to give them – especially Kicillof – a media platform to criticize on site the agreement of 10 policies that seeks to show support for the policies of a president without governors, mayors and in a legislative minority.
“Start if I don’t arrive“, ironically the governor of the most populous district in the country after the call of the President in Congress. Francos, who at that time was preparing the ground to receive the 24 governors at the Casa Rosada, then explained that the Government was not necessarily planning to invite Kicillof. “The cancheradas are out of place. Nobody invited him yet. If he puts himself in that position, it is difficult to invite him“said the minister during his visit to ExpoAgro. Fifty-two days later, nothing changed in the bond between the hardline opponents and La Rosada.
In the Cabinet they also argue that selective participation will also serve to please the more “dialogue” governors who provided governability every time the Government requested it and felt that the Executive’s treatment was just as distant with them as with Kicillof.
Of course, the provincial leaders think more about works and resources than about the Order of Maythe decoration with which Milei planned to honor the governors who adhere to the pact.
In the Government they do not rule out having the presence of governors who had gestures of rapprochement and sound short circuits. This group includes Claudio Vidalfrom Santa Cruz; Alberto Weretilneck, from Río Negro; either Gerardo Zamora, from Santiago del Estero. The third sent his secretary of works to meet with his national counterpart in the Ministry of Economy one day after his bilateral with francs.
The behavior of the senators when the omnibus law reaches the Upper House – in the most optimistic forecasts, a few days before the Pact – may be decisive in defining the universe of guests at the summit in Córdoba.
In the Government they do not hide that the discussion is open and that there are not enough and there are even lack of votes in the Senatealthough close to Milei they point out that the red in the public accounts of the ministries and the maturities of debt in dollars will force the governors to align with the official initiative or to order strategic flaws.
In the Executive and in vast sectors of the opposition they believe that this time there will be no surprises or too many votes against in the vote in particular of the basic law in Deputies that forces the President to adjourn the session, as happened in February. “I don’t think it will happen, but if there is trouble your pulse will not tremble“, said to Clarion an official with access to the President’s office. In Congress this week, several lawmakers reporting to governors threatened to include last-minute requests to include in the law that jeopardized Monday’s session.
Some opposition deputies who speak directly with Milei doubt what will be more profitable for the interests of the Government: stay lawless and be able to confront “the caste” or have some of the tools that the President demanded so much, but that they will not convert From one day to the next, Argentina enters the promised land of investments and employment.
He President’s sarcasm At the Libertad Foundation dinner they collaborated with that intrigue. “Do whatever you want. We are going to throw out the Base Law, the entire project. We are going to achieve it despite the politics“, he said at the same time that Francos finished talking amicably with opposition governors, such as the man from Santa Fe. Maximiliano Pullaro.
In the immediate future, the Government seems to want to satisfy the IMF consensus request who doubts the viability of the adjustment. Milei needs to please the organization, but he does not think of abandoning his banner against politics even though he has shown for the first time that he could back down, after acknowledging receipt of the massive march of university students.
He “May Pact for almost everyone” feeds the story. In the Government they believe that the reappearance of Cristina Kirchner, this Saturday, and the request of UxP to lower the Mega DNU simplify that task.
Far from the symbolic level, on Monday, when the omnibus law begins to be discussed, Francos will try to appease the demands of a twenty municipal executives of the most populous cities in the interior of the country that will meet in Rosario and were grouped since the assumption of Milei in the Federal Network of Mayors. and in capital cities. The May Pact is on the agenda. As in the case of the governors, the Government trusts to be able to agree with several.
