The new president of the Frente de Todos (FdT) bloc of the Chamber of Deputies, Germán Martínez, discounted in dialogue with Télam that the agreement reached by President Alberto Fernández with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the debt taken during the Government of Mauricio Macri, will have “the necessary support” to be approved by Congress
“I am convinced that the proposal put forward by the President to begin to get out of the very serious debt contracted by -the former president, Mauricio- Macri- will have the necessary parliamentary support”asserted Martínez in statements to Télam.
In this sense, the legislator considered that “we should not get anxious about the ‘porroteo’ of votes by legislators who may support or reject the agreement with the IMF”, and warned that “the vote is still a long way off” .
“There is no need to get anxious about the ‘poroteo’ of votes by legislators who may support or reject the agreement with the IMF”
In a telephone dialogue from Rosario, the city from which he is a native, the head of the ruling caucus thus responded to the query about the various surveys on the matter that occupy different chronicles and journalistic analysis.
In this sense, he explained that “The technical staff of the IMF is working together with officials from our Ministry of Economy on the specific aspects of the agreement announced by the President” Alberto Fernández.
“Once this task is completed, the IMF technicians will submit it to the body’s political instances. And the Executive Branch will send the agreement to Congress for debate and analysis,” said Máximo Kirchner’s replacement at the head of the FdT bloc.
The indoor job
Regarding his work on the bench, he revealed: “Meanwhile, we are going to talk with each partner in the block. We will relieve all eyes on the subject. We will try to clear up any doubts that may exist”
It was precisely in the midst of these conversations with the other 117 members of his block, which will continue for the rest of the weekend, that Martínez stopped to attend to the journalistic request of this agency.
In his first four days on the job, Rosario began working on three aspects with which he will seek to shore up his management that go through the creation of a table that represents all the sectors, the development of ‘thematic devices’ between the authorities of the commissions and the call for a greater ‘communicational dispute'” by the members of their caucus.
The coordination table will be completed next week with representatives from the different spaces that come together in the FdT.
“You have to dispute communication much more, because many militant colleagues say that everything that is done is not communicated. It does not have to be me”
“We have to dispute communication much more, because many militant colleagues say that everything that is done is not communicated. It does not have to be me. We have colleagues with extensive training who can take on the task of communicating a large number of topics“, he stressed.
For now, it has already been decided – although it has not yet been formally announced – that Cecilia Moreau, from the Renovating Front, and Paula Penacca, from La Cámpora, continue as vice president and parliamentary secretary of the bloc, respectively.
It is an endorsement of the entire bench for the task that both carried out during the management of Máximo Kirchner as head of the bench.
The position of the other blocks
While the official bloc is being ordered internally, the rest of the spaces began to outline their positions in relation to the agreement with the IMF.
Together for Change (JxC) issued a statement from its national table last Wednesday entitled “the importance of reaching an agreement” with the IMF “that leads to a solution to the issue of external debt” and “claimed responsibility from the ruling party,” since “a possible default would be detrimental to the country.”
However, beyond the common document, different positions still prevail within the main opposition alliance.
The Civic Coalition is more willing to analyze and, eventually, to support the agreement; while the leader of the PRO Patricia Bullrich who warned that the space founded by Macri would not accompany if the FdT does not first show a unified position.
In radicalism they carefully analyze the scenarioand they distanced themselves from the suggestion of the PRO leader about the internal differences of an ruling party that will seek to pass the agreement with the IMF through Congress, something that did not happen in 2018, when Macri took the largest loan in the history of the global credit agency.
“What Bullrich said is not a position of JxC”, the parliamentary secretary of the radical bloc, Miguel Bazze, differed in journalistic statements.
On the other hand, the Left, due to its historical position of delegitimizing the debt, anticipated its rejection of the agreement with the IMF.
As for the so-called “libertarian” legislators, they expressed the same position but with an argument that “the adjustment must be paid for by politics.”
The Córdoba Federal blocreferenced in the government of that province, stated that “the announced agreement and the consequences that it may bring about for the Argentines, are the responsibility of the National Government” and that this bench “will not hinder the treatment of said agreement in Congress.”
“We will give a quorum but our position will be to abstain, since, we emphasize, the aforementioned agreement is the responsibility of the National Government.”
For its part, the head of the Bonaerense Identity block and the Federal interblock, Alejandro ‘Topo’ Rodríguez, anticipated that “we have to wait for the ‘fine print’ to be known of agreement to take a stand.
According to the formal times that would require the elaboration of the complementary memorandums of the initial agreement with the IMF, parliamentary sources estimated that “the project would only take parliamentary status in March.”
