Milei plans to send a new ‘omnibus law’ project to the Argentine Parliament

The president of Argentina, Javier Mileisaid this Saturday that he hopes to soon send to Parliament a new project of the so-called ‘omnibus law’, whose first treatment failed in Congress, where the party in power is a minority.

“We will soon forward it to Congress”Milei said in statements to Miter radio.

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After assuming the Argentine presidency on December 10, Milei sent a project of the Basic Law and Starting Points for the Freedom of Argentineswith broad measures and reforms and a controversial delegation of powers typical of the Legislature to the Executive.

Due to the intransigence of the opposition and the Government in negotiating and reaching agreement on various aspects of the project, the so-called ‘omnibus law’ foundered in its parliamentary treatment and the Executive He decided to return the initiative to the committees.

After that, on March 1st, Milei proposed that the governors sign a new “founding pact” on May 25th, with a dozen points on economic and political issues, with the condition that a new agreement on fiscal and political issues be approved first. omnibus law’, which the Executive will now reintroduce with some modifications.

“We will soon be able to reach an agreement with the governors and forward the new version of the basic law”Milei indicated this Saturday.

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Last Thursday, the Government encountered a political obstacle when the Senate, by majority, rejected a broad decree of necessity and urgency (DNU) to deregulate the economy signed by Milei in December.

The DNU remains in force because it still needs to be discussed in the Chamber of Deputies, where it could be definitively invalidated.

Milei said that if the “political caste” behaves with the “May Pact” as it did with the DNU, the pact will be “far” from being signed, although it is open to dialogue with the opposition.

Source: Elcomercio

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