After more than a month of negotiations, finally the agreement that the Government negotiated with the IMF entered the Congressso now Economy Minister Martín Guzmán will have to defend the proposal.
According to official sources, the document entered the Parliament at noon this Friday, so in the next few days the debate will begin in the Congress to discuss the project.
However, although the Government has remained optimistic, in recent weeks the political tension has increased, so that the last word on the agreement will finally be held by the Congress.
That’s the way it is, The project will first pass through the Chamber of Deputies, where it is expected to be discussed between Monday and Wednesdayafter Martín Guzmán makes the presentation of the document.
Also present at Monday’s debate will be the Chief of Staff, Juan Manzur; the head of the Central Bank, Miguel Pesce; the Argentine representative before the Monetary Fund, Sergio Chodos, and the Secretary of the Treasury, Raúl Rigo.
Then, on Tuesday, the proposal will be discussed with different social associations, as well as with different representatives of the business sector, mainly from the CGERA, APYME, UIA and ADEBA.
With this, the debate will begin on Wednesday, where parliamentarians are expected to vote in favor of the initiative that seeks to refinance 44 million dollars of debt.
The document was modified before entering Congress
After several hours of meetings and internal debates, the Government finally decided to make a small modification to the agreement, in order to obtain the greatest possible support from the opposition and the ruling party.
In this sense, in the project carried out to Parliament Approval of the program for new financing will appear first, since the opposition has stated that it will only vote for what is related to indebtedness.
Then, in a second article, all the annexes of the understanding agreed so far with the agency will be presented, which includes the memorandum of economic and financial policies and the technical memorandum.
