The Frente de Todos (FdT) requested this Monday a special session in the Chamber of Deputies for next Wednesday in order to discuss a set of initiatives, including the pension moratorium project, the creation of nine national universities in different provinces of the country and international agreements.
It will be the last debate of the year since the ordinary sessions were extended until December 31 and it will mean the resumption of parliamentary activity after the strong controversy between the ruling party and the opposition over the integration of the Council of the Magistracy.
The president of the FDT bloc, German Martinezrequested the session for Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. to try to convert the bill into law pension moratoriumwhich seeks that some eight hundred thousand people who are of retirement age but do not have 30 years of contributions, can access this right, and the approval of the creation of eight universities.
In any case, Together for Change (JxC) has not yet defined whether it will give a quorum in this session, arguing that the agenda was not agreed upon with that political force, although the final decision will only be made in the next few hours, sources said. of the opposing alliance.
With the request for the special session, the FDT seeks to resume the agenda of the frustrated session of December 1, where it was planned to discuss the creation of new study houses in the province of Buenos Aires and the interior of the country, that ended in a scandal because JXC questioned its validitysince it had been postponed three times.
? | From the FDT Block we request #SpecialSession for Wednesday, December 21, at 1:00 p.m., in order to discuss the following agenda: pic.twitter.com/FztkU4ilND
— Deputies of TOD☀S (@Diputados_Todos) December 19, 2022
These are the Delta Universities, which will comprise the parties of Tigre, Escobar and San Fernando; from Saladillo, from Pilar, from the Cuenca del Salado; of Ezeiza that will be located in the province of Buenos Aires.
The University of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, in the city of Buenos Aires, will also be set up; from Río Tercero, in Córdoba, and in Entre Ríos, the Juan Laurentino Ortiz University, based in the city of Paraná.
Another central point on the agenda will be the pension moratorium project – which has been sanctioned by the Senate – and by which citizens who are of age and do not meet 30 years of contributions can enter a plan to complete the payment of those years.
A pension moratorium for women is in effect until the end of the year, but with this new law this system can be maintained and men can be incorporated so that they can also access a plan that allows them to reach 30 years of contributions and access a retirement minimal.
The project, whose authorship corresponds to the Mendoza senator Anabel Fernandez Sagastiestablishes that the benefit plan will be made up of a Payment Unit and a Contribution Cancellation Unit for active workers.
Projects on blood law 22,990 and containment and accompaniment of people who receive a diagnosis of trisomy 21 / Down syndrome, for their pregnant or newborn child, and the Single Federal Program for Computerization and digitalization of medical records.
The Frente de Todos also proposes to approve a set of international agreements, among which are the agreements on Air Transport, signed between Argentina and Portugal, on June 25, 2007; and Air Services between Argentina and the Netherlands, signed in 2017.
The agenda also includes dealing with the Extradition Treaty between Argentina and the Czech Republic, signed in November 2019; the Agreement to eliminate the collection of international roaming charges for Mercosur users, signed in 2019, and the Defense Cooperation Agreement between Argentina and Italy, signed in September 2016.
In addition, it includes the cooperation agreements for surveillance and control of the airspace between Argentina and Uruguay, and for the recognition of educational qualifications to be surpassed in Mercosur.
Another point will be to validate the Multilateral Convention to apply the measures related to tax treaties to prevent the erosion of tax bases and the transfer of benefits held on November 24, 2016, and ILO Convention 149 on work and personal life. of the nursing staff.
