The Senate will begin next Monday the debate in committee of the agreement that Argentina will sign with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), approved this Friday morning by the Chamber of Deputies, during a hearing in which the Minister of Economy, Martín Guzmán, will present.
The meeting of the Upper House Budget Committee chaired by the senator of the Frente de Todos por La Rioja, Ricardo Guerra, will be summoned from 15 next Monday in the Blue Room of the Senate, according to parliamentary sources.
They will be invited to the meeting members of the economic team, with the Minister of Economy at the headin the same way that occurred during the plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies in which the understanding was endorsed.
The goal of the government is to convert into law the initiative that authorizes the Executive Branch to sign a new understanding with the IMF before next friday.
The Chamber of Deputies approved this Friday at 3:30 a.m. the project that supports the agreement with the IMF for the restructuring of the debt contracted by former President Mauricio Macri, after more than thirteen hours of debate that ended with the positive vote of 202 legislators, against 37 negatives and 13 abstentions.
The majority of the positive votes were contributed by the benches of Together for Change and the Front of All, to which were added the legislators of the Federal, United Provinces and Ser interblocks.
Among the negatives were votes from the Frente de Todos, the left and the so-called libertarians.
