After a marathon day, in the early hours of this Friday, the Chamber of Deputies approved with a large majority the technical agreement that the Government negotiated with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The deputies gave the yes to the agreement with the organismafter a session that lasted more than 12 hours, where there were 202 votes in favor of closing the negotiation with the IMF37 against and 13 abstentions.
Among those who voted negatively to the proposal of the IMFThey were Máximo Kirchner, main leader of the Cámporaas well as the legislators of the political group.
Likewise, some legislators from the Frente de Todos such as Marcos Cleri, Constanza Alonso, Paula Penacca, Rodolfo Tailhade, Gabriela Esteves and Cristina Britez expressed their rejection of the program.
In total there were 28 votes against by the block of deputies, which were added to the other 9 rejections and abstentions from the different political sides.
Although there was tension until the last moment, finally the proposal managed to be approved by the great majority and now, after obtaining the half sanction, it will go to the Senate.
The Government made changes to the agreement with the IMF to have the support of the opposition
In view of how divided the political parties were, and that the ruling party had not assured its support for the proposal, the Government decided at the last minute to make some changes to the document.
This mainly at the request of the opposition, which assured that it would vote only for the refinancing and not because of the economic program, so in the end, in order to achieve consensus, the second topic was not included.
In this sense, the Government will be in charge of defining what and how the economic program will be to comply with the agreements that were established with the organism and to cover the debt of 44 billion dollars left by the previous administration.
