The ruling party of the Chamber of Deputies will seek next week to advance with an intense socio-economic agenda, with topics such as the tax relief project for monotributistas and self-employedamong other key initiatives, after the session in which the opposition managed to give half sanction to the project that seeks to implement the single paper ballot, which the Front of All (FDT) considers “out of the priority agenda” of society.
The intention of the ruling party is to leave behind in this way the move promoted by the opposition arch and will promote initiatives that aim to provide concrete solutions.
In this framework, it will promote a special session – convened for Wednesday the 15th at 11 a.m. – with the fiscal relief project that will benefit around 4.5 million monotributistas and 140 thousand self-employed as a central theme, but that will include other relevant issues.
This agenda was analyzed last Tuesday in a meeting held at the Government House by the chief of staff, Juan Manzur, and the head of the block of national deputies of the Frente de Todos, Germán Martínez.
“The most important thing on the session’s agenda is that behind each issue there are specific interests that need answers from Congress,” Martínez assured Télam, when asked about the projects that the lower house will seek to deal with next week.
In fact, the initiative promoted by Sergio Massa to benefit monotributistas and autonomous, was going to be debated last Thursday, one day after the session called by the opposition to deal with Single Ticket but the trip of the president of the Chamber of Deputies, to The United States to participate in the Summit of the Americas together with President Alberto Fernández forced the session to be postponed.
This is an issue that has broad political support because the opinion was signed by legislators from the Frente de Todos, the United Provinces bloc, and the Federal Interbloc.
Even Together for Change – which signed a minority opinion since it objected to the special deduction of earnings that will be granted to the self-employed – would vote in general in favor of the initiative.
“We want to continue strengthening the interests of the Argentine people, and we are going to do that guided by the best background that the national and popular field has, no matter what political party they belonged to,” Martínez assured in the last session.
Also included in the ruling party’s call for Wednesday was the project that seeks to guarantee “comprehensive training regarding the Malvinas Question for people who work in public office” and another to place the phrase “The Malvinas are Argentines” in all State dependencies, within the framework of the 40 years of the war.
The text to train on the Malvinas issue -approved last November unanimously in the Upper House promoted by Senator María Eugenia Duré (Frente de Todos)- received an opinion last week and will be registered within the framework of the actions for the 40 years of the war in the South Atlantic.
The agenda for calling the session also contemplates the extension until 2072 of the Specific allocations for Cultural Industries and Institutions, which seeks to avoid the underfunding of organizations such as the Film, Theater and Music Institutes.
Also, it will seek to debate on Wednesday the project that establishes transitory tax benefits for the acquisition of zero kilometer vehicles of national origin for owners of taxi licenses.
One day before the session, on Tuesday, the activity of the lower house will intensify with the visit of the Minister of Transport, Alexis Guerrera, and representatives of the Federal Transport Committee (Cofetra), who was invited by the area commission, which The radical Carlos Rizzoti presides over the subsidies for public passenger transport in the interior of the country.
Also, for that same day, the Social Action and Health commission was convened, led by Mónica Fein (Socialism), to advance the debate on the bill that ensures patient access to health care benefits. palliative care in its different modalities and in the public, private and social security and Culture spheres, chaired by Hernán Lombardi (PRO) in order to deal with a set of initiatives.
Meanwhile, parliamentary sources told Télam that, probably on Wednesday the 22nd, the Frente de Todos will convene an informative meeting with the presence of national officials to open the debate on the project to tax the unexpected income of companies with extraordinary profits, which foresees the additional payment of an aliquot of 15% for one time, sent by the Executive Power.
The initiative, of only three articles, proposes the exceptional modification of the law that regulates the Income Tax, adding an additional rate that will be charged, only once, on those activities that have registered an unexpected income as a result of the rise in prices in the new international context.
