Kirchnerism will seek to approve pension moratorium on last day of extraordinary events: quorum doubts

The Frente de Todos called for a special session in the House of Representatives for February 28, in which he will seek to approve two projects: the retirement debt payment plan (commonly called moratorium forecast) and the digitization of medical records. Both already have half Senate sanction.

By including only two initiatives, the ruling party seeks to set aside issues that generate greater tensions with the opposition in order to overcome the state of paralysis which began in early December. The bench headed by Germán Martínez thus aims to seduce the smallest blocks who do not belong to Together for changewho holds firm in his no quorum policy in any session while the process continues Accused against Supreme Court.

The pension debt payment plan is the one with the most consensus in the intermediate blocs. as much as he could tell GlobeLiveMediathe Frente de Todos, which has 117 deputies, would have already ensured the support of the four deputies of the LEFT and four others from the interblock United Provinces. A total of 125.

He, in turn, placed the “Unique Federal Program for the Computerization and Digitization of Medical Records” on the agenda for two reasons: on March 1, he lost his parliamentary status (it was approved in the Senate on March 30 November 2020) and it is a project defended by Mónica Fein, president of the Health Commission and member of the bloc socialist with Enrique Estevez.

Before the consultation of this environment, from the bench of the santafesinos they specified that They consider that the Chamber “must work” and that they have no objection to either of the two projects. Along the same lines, they expressed Graciela Camano there Alejandro “Topo” Rodriguez. The president of the federal Interbloc signed the majority opinion (with dissidence) when the moratorium was debated in committee. “Nothing defined yet“, they specified after the call to meet was known.

Thus, the ruling party would reach 129 and could strengthen its position if it added a deputy from the small blocks like Rolando Figueroa from the MPN or Claudio Vidal from Santa Cruz from the SER bloc. Both have repeatedly voted with the ruling party.

Given that Together for Change and the Liberals have already announced that they will not give a quorum and that in addition they are mostly against the moratorium on pensions, the party in power only has to negotiate with the three deputies of the federal Cordobaa force that responds to Governor Juan Schiaretti.

Deputy Carlos Gutierrez He had said in January that he would not provide a quorum as the government insisted on attacking the Supreme Court. He also demanded that the ruling party draw up a consensus program including issues promoted by the opposition.

“The road is still long until the 28th, we will see what happens“, said a member of the bloc to GlobeLiveMediaand regretted that the Frente de Todos thought they could “to carry with the extortion of presenting in advance to the company that if we do not give a quorum it is because we are not interested in the stakes”.

At the Front of All, they are confident of being able to reach the 129 deputies to open the session. However, last week they didn’t rule out the possibility of calling a session when they just didn’t have the number. to make the opposition blocs understand that they did not descend into the enclosure.

This pressure strategy also encompassed the posters which appeared in the offices of ANSES with the faces of opposition lawmakers and the caption “They’re MPs from your province and they don’t want you to retire”.

“The project is not treated in deputies because the party in power privileges its internal struggles and its conflicts of power instead of generating the conditions to treat the projects which seek to bring solutions”, replied the socialist. Enrique Estevez through social media.

And he added: “Escrache is a reprehensible practice which with threatening tone ‘LOOK FOR THEM´ only fuels the violence”.

The representative of Radical Evolution, martin tetazdescribed the posters as “fascists and liars”. He called for a pension system “with a sustainable and balanced perspective based on actuarial calculation”. “We cannot leave 15, 20 or 25 years without a pension, because that would be a scam, but we cannot lower the pensions of those who have contributed to incorporate more people who have not contributed, because that would also be another scam,” he added. argued. .

Kirchnerism also called for a Report of the Social Protection Commission, despite the fact that the project has already passed through this body and has an opinion, and this week organized a public audience with groups of retirees and union representatives. The Director of ANSES participated in both, Fernanda Raverta.

During this Wednesday’s meeting (before the call for the meeting), MP Gisela Marziotta announced that if the opposition continued its strategy of “blockade” I’ll be hosting a hug at Congress next week.

The government formalized the convening of extraordinary sessions in mid-January. In addition to the request for a political judgment against the Supreme Court, it included 26 other issues such as the expansion of the highest court, the reform of the Judicial Council and several economic laws requested by Minister Sergio Massa, such as the law on agro-industries. , Monotribut Tech, new money laundering and modification of the anti-money laundering law.

Last year, the ruling party failed to process any of the 18 projects sent by Casa Rosada, amid infighting over the resignation of Máximo Kirchner from the bloc’s presidency, tensions with the opposition over the distribution of commissions and the wait to know the details of the agreement with the IMF , which would finally be ratified the following month.

The project, which already got half Senate sanction, consists of two parts. On the one hand, a payment plan similar to those introduced in 2004 and 2014 which allows 65-year-old men and 60-year-old women who do not have all the contributions of regularize missing periods up to 120 times which will be deducted directly from the old-age credit you obtain.

On the other hand, it will also allow workers who are active and who have not completed 30 years of contributions because they are close to retirement age to anticipate and start paying for missing periods until March 31, 2012. These people will be able to pay contribution cancellation units, which will be equivalent to one month of benefits and will have a fixed value of 29% of the minimum tax base of the remuneration, coinciding with what the workers pay in activity. when their contributions are paid in a timely manner.

From ANSES, they estimate that without this law, some 800,000 elderly people will not be able to retire and they must resort to the PUAM (Universal Pension for the Elderly), which is equivalent to 80% of a minimum pension.

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