The Chamber of Deputies will advance next week with the analysis in commission of the impeachment of the four members of the Supreme Courtwhile awaiting the report on the quantification of the cost of implementation of the project on Federal Justice in Santa Fe and advances in the process prior to the presence of the Chief of Staff, Agustín Rossi, scheduled for Wednesday 29.
A federal court for Santa Fe
The project that seeks to give impetus to the Federal Justice in the province of Santa Fe He obtained the opinion of the Justice and Criminal Legislation commissions last week, but to reach the venue he still must add the approval of the Budget and Finance Commission.
That body of work chaired by the official Carlos Heller is the one that must quantify the expense involved in building and personnel matters for the implementation of the new estates in the organization chart or the expansion of the existing ones.
To move in this direction, last week the Congressional Budget Office was asked to carry out this cost analysis, a task that, according to the response, would only be ready for Thursday the 16th or Friday the 17th.
So, the 49 members of the Budget Committee must wait at least until the week of Monday the 20th to hold the meeting in which the project would be ruled on, with the expectation of being able to bring it to the venue on Wednesday the 22nd or, at the latest, on Tuesday the 28th.
The court trial
The project in question managed to unlock the parliamentary distance between the Frente de Todos (FdT) and Juntos por el Cambio (JxC), amid the strategy of the opposition interblock of not enabling any other initiative until the ruling party desists from continuing with the process impeachment of the members of the Supreme Court.
But the FdT does not echo what it considers “extortion” and advances in the stage of collecting evidence and testimonies with a call to guests that will continue, next Tuesday, with a new call to the prosecutor Carlos Stornelli, who last week In the past, he advised that he would respond in writing.
From the commission chaired by Carolina Gaillard from Entre Ríos they dismissed that request from the prosecutor and reiterated the call for him to approach Congress; if he is absent again, warned the legislator, “we will have to start an impeachment procedure to be able to bring him in by public force.”
The Chief of Staff’s report
Along with these two themes, The parliamentary agenda marks the visit on Wednesday 29 of the Chief of Staff, Agustín Rossi, who, with his presence in the Lower House, will comply with the constitutional mandate to appear monthly – alternately – in Deputies and in the Senate.
In the dynamics of that visit, between Wednesday and Friday of last week the period was open so that the deputies of the different blocks could advance the questions in writing, which the coordinating minister must answer before their presentation.
In the middle of the agenda, for Wednesday the 22nd, the radical Julio Cobos, along with deputies from other benches -including three Cuyanos from the FdT- requested a special session to discuss the problem of UVA mortgage loan holders.
The lack of support from some FdT deputies, but above all from members of Pro, Evolución Radical and radicalism itself, would fail that call, which according to parliamentary sources would only be of a “testimonial” nature.
One of the possibilities that are handled, to cushion this eventual failure, is to make a new call to the Finance Commission to resume the issue after the summer impasse, although in the 2022 meetings they had not made any further progress.
Other themes
Meanwhile, another issue that awaits to be addressed by the plenary is that of Technological monotributewhich obtained an opinion on February 7, and which the ruling party aspires to include on the agenda of the next sessions, knowing that, to form the quorum, it will not have JxC, beyond the fact that some of its members anticipated that at time of the vote they will follow because it is “a necessary patch”.
As for the preaching of the opposition to advance in the announced “own agenda”, for now the Rental Law, one of its most demanded issues, fails to close internal consensus.
By proposing the repeal of the current law, Cobos excited some of his own but frightened eventual allies; while the ruling party considers that, given the possible scenario posed by JxC, leaving things as they are is the “lesser evil”.
