Congress Defines the Formation of Key Commissions as the Government Pushes for the Approval of the Omnibus Law

Congress will move forward in the first week of the year with the formation of key commissions, which, among other initiatives, will have to analyze the so-called “Omnibus Law” sent at the end of December by President Javier Milei and which includes, among other points, the privatization of public companies, changes in the electoral system, the suspension of the current retirement mobility formula and restrictions on protest demonstrations. The head of the Senate, Victoria Villarruel, formalized last Friday the formation of the commissions of Agreements, Constitutional Affairs, Justice and Criminal Affairs, Budget and Finance, General Legislation, Foreign Relations and Worship and Administrative Affairs and Municipales.La Libertad Avanza (LLA) and the non-Kirchnerist blocs that make up the Senate have already appointed the legislators who from this week will make up the commissions that will work during the Extraordinary Period of Congress. Sessions convened by the National Executive Branch until January 31. Convinced that, as the first parliamentary minority, it should be given a majority in each commission, the Union for the Fatherland did not present its representatives. Therefore, the list of the members of the commissions reported last Friday includes representatives of La Libertad Avanza, the Radicalism, PRO, the dissident Peronism and some provincial blocs. Parliamentary sources estimated that this week the president of the lower house, Martin Menem, will move forward in the formation of at least the committees of Budget and Finance, Constitutional Affairs and General Legislation, to open the parliamentary debate on the bill sent last Wednesday by the Executive Branch and which consists of 664 articles. Before January 31 we will have a first part” approved, Menem said optimistically. “We have time in January to work on the best solution and we will surely agree. The intention is to vote as soon as possible,” he said. Their expectation coexists with the pressure exerted by the Casa Rosada on legislators to approve the reform package before the end of the month.” In a few weeks, when the moment of truth arrives, the deputies and senators of the Nation will find themselves faced with two options: reject the law and continue with the model that has impoverished us, or approve it to make a profound change and embrace the ideas of freedom,” said President Javier Milei in his end-of-year message. Days earlier, in a television interview, he accused lawmakers of “seeking bribes” to pass certain laws. In the opposition, even the most pro-dialogue sectors warn that the law requires careful treatment because of the number of issues it covers and the sum of public power that the Head of State seeks.

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