Buenos Aires, December 17 (NA) – With some concern over the quorum, the Chamber of Deputies was in session this Wednesday on an agenda proposed by the ruling party. The agenda includes the 2026 Budget project, the Fiscal Presumption of Innocence Law, and the National Commitment for Fiscal and Monetary Balance Law.
Only at 14:27 hours, 27 minutes later than the scheduled time, was the necessary number of 129 national deputies surpassed to enable the session, which is expected to be marathon.
Unión por la Patria (UxP) and the Frente de Izquierda did not provide quorum, while Provincias Unidas threatened to follow suit, but at the last moment Miguel Pichetto and Nicolás Masso signaled to take their seats, and the Córdoba deputies nodded in agreement, as confirmed by the Argentine News Agency.
The start of the session was marked by heated discussions about the voting method: the controversy was settled by a vote in favor of the ruling party, which proposed voting chapter by chapter.
Opposition blocs such as Unión por la Patria, the Frente de Izquierda, and the Unidos inter-bloc demanded to vote article by article nominally, but could not impose that criterion.
As the informing member for the ruling party, the president of the Budget and Finance Committee, Alberto "Bertie" Benegas Lynch, stated that "the state structure is elephantine," and asked to "relieve the accounts" and "lower spending".
"Investment has no homeland, it goes where there is legal security. This process seeks to attract investment, and I tell the leftists that this is what improves capitalization rates."
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