In the midst of managing the coronavirus emergency and with an economy in a deep recession,
the to-do list accumulates in the drawer
Alberto Fernández. Therein lie some of the bills with which the President had planned
shape the identity of your management:
the
judicial reform, tax reform, the law on voluntary interruption of pregnancy, the creation of the Economic and Social Council and the hydrocarbons law, among others.
Despite repeated announcements and feints,
none of these initiatives has yet reached Congress.
Nor were other projects sent to the Parliaments that, without being their authorship, I embrace them as their own, such as
the wealth tax or the expropriation of the cereal
Vicentin.
From the Casa Rosada they warned that all the efforts of the national administration are put into fighting Covid-19 and measures to alleviate the effects of the economic situation on employment and poverty, such as the Work and Production Assistance program ( ATP) and Emergency Family Income (IFE).
“We are like an alcoholic at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, one day at a time.”
, recognized a man with an office on the first floor of the Government House.
The pandemic put us in an emergency that forced us to alter priorities
Alberto Fernández
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But, in addition, they share the responsibility with the Legislative Power. “Many of the projects are to be dealt with on site in person, you cannot debate an issue such as abortion virtually,” official sources described. At this point, he is assisted by a fact of reality: today, remote sessions only advance on agreed topics. The system is not ready to deal with debates of this magnitude.
Perhaps the greatest problem that the Executive Power must address lies in the public positioning that the head of state does in each interview. “The pandemic brought us face to face with an emergency that forced us to alter our priorities, but they remain the same. In the coming days I hope to be able to send the reform so that Federal Justice in Argentina works better,” said Fernández a few days ago. in one of the multiple interviews he gave.
This past week the President held a meeting with
the Minister of Justice,
Marcela Losardo,
in Olivos’ fifth presidential term, but according to official sources, the bill does not have a date for presentation in Parliament.
With each media presentation, the President generates a tsunami in his closest team, who try to transform his words into concrete actions. Much of that work falls on one of Fernández’s closest people,
the Legal and Technical secretary, Vilma Ibarra, but she is not the only one who suffers the consequences.
One of the most important debts is
the bill for the voluntary interruption of pregnancy, a campaign promise that he ratified in the speech he gave before the Legislative Assembly on March 1.
“Within the next 10 days I will present a bill for the voluntary interruption of pregnancy that legalizes abortion in the early pregnancy period and allows women to access the health system when they make the decision to abort,” the President launched that day. .
The project was delayed –
along with the 1000 day plan law,
to guarantee the care and integral care of the life and health of pregnant women and their children – and fell into the limbo that represents the pandemic. Alberto Fernández himself spoke about it a few days ago. “I have not abdicated in sending the abortion law in any way, we simply postponed the shipment due to the urgency that we still have, but it is a pending issue that I have not neglected,” the president justified.
But the list is much more extensive. There also sleeps the dream of the just the initiative for the development of the hydrocarbon and mining sector. The President’s objective was for the initiative to help promote and stimulate national and international investment in the sector.
As a palliative measure for a sector hit by the crisis, the national government issued Decree No. 488, of May 19, with which it set “temporarily until the end of the year” the marketing price in the local market for the barrel of oil at $ 45 a barrel. This was a measure that he took on the recommendation of the
former YPF president,
Miguel Galuccio,
close advisor to the vice president
Cristina Kirchner
and president of the oil company Vista Oil & Gas.
The idea of the Social Economic Council was left on a similar path, an instrument devised by the President to develop medium and long-term measures. “From this Council we have to be able, all together, to design the future agenda, oblivious to the distributive bid and the short-term situation,” Fernández stressed almost four months ago.
Pushed by the emergencies, amid pressure from the slowdown in activity, which led to the closure of companies and shops,
the Government decided to incorporate businessmen and unionists to the economic cabinet to seek consensual solutions.
How
THE NATION advanced,
the crisis committee, led by the chief of staff,
In the coming days, Santiago Cafiero will add the leaders of the CGT, the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA), the Chamber of Commerce and the Argentine Chamber of Construction (Camarco).
The list of standards that the Executive Branch wants to sanction has a chapter led by the black-palate Kirchnerism. There are, among others, the tax reform or the tax on large fortunes.
The national deputy Fernanda Vallejos affirmed in the last hours that “the project of the wealth tax will be presented within a tax package in the coming weeks.”
“The expectation is to jointly treat the extraordinary tax on large fortunes together with a package of tax and tax reforms, in particular fiscal facilities for SMEs,” said the legislator, who has already been disavowed by the President for proposing that the State should stay with part of the share package of companies that receive state assistance.
While the President and his team spend their time almost exclusively in battling the coronavirus and its consequences, the list of projects that the President devised to build the image of his administration increases without there being any certainty on the calendar as to when to give the green light to your treatment.
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