Buenos Aires, December 10 (NA) – The ruling bloc has defined a condensed roadmap for next week, which includes a double session on Wednesday, December 17, and Thursday, December 18, to approve the 2026 Budget Bill, the Tax Innocence Law, and the National Commitment for Fiscal and Monetary Stability Law. The plan will begin next Monday with the constituent meetings of the Budget and Finance Committees, which will once again be chaired by the libertarian Alberto 'Bertie' Benegas Lynch, and the Criminal Legislation Committee, where the presidency will be renewed by the Bullrichist Laura Rodríguez Machado, respectively. Next Tuesday, in turn, the signing of the opinions on the three bills is planned, in order to have them ready for approval in the chamber on Wednesday and Thursday, according to the Argentine News Agency from several national opposition deputies who participated in meetings on Tuesday in the office of the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Martín Menem. This Wednesday, in turn, there was a parade of opposition deputies in the office of the head of the libertarian bloc, Gabriel Bornoroni, where they were separately informed about the number of representatives that the ruling bloc has reserved for each bloc. 'Bornoroni is meeting with each bloc separately and none know what he negotiates with the other,' high-level parliamentary sources from the opposition told the Argentine News Agency, dissatisfied with the policy of distributing places in the committees. Furious, a deputy from the Front of the Left complained because they excluded that political force from key committees such as Budget, Criminal Legislation, and Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation. They only guaranteed a single seat (which will be occupied by Néstor Pitrola) in the Labor Legislation Committee, where labor reform will be worked on no earlier than the second half of January. The distribution The ruling bloc applies a strict numerical criterion linked to the proportional D'Hont system, which leads to La Libertad Avanza and Unión por la Patria sharing between them more than 70% of the available places in the committees and forces the rest of the forces to be elbow-to-elbow fighting for the remaining crumbs and begging Menem and Bornoroni for them to have a deference towards them to the detriment of the others. The Criminal Legislation Committee will immediately address the Tax Innocence Law, but it will also be the forum where the reform of the Criminal Code promoted by Patricia Bullrich during her recent tenure as Minister of Security will be discussed. Meanwhile, the Labor Legislation and Constitutional Affairs Committees must be constituted to receive the debate on labor modernization reform, which will begin its journey in the Senate and land in Deputies at the end of January or February. The Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation Committee will be the head of the debate for the reform of the Glaciers Law, which is driven by the understanding between the Nation and the Andean provinces to create a more attractive regime to attract investments and exploit mining and energy resources.
