Senator Mariano Recalde was once again at the center of the scene after a phrase that ignited the political debate: 'We are going to investigate them and when we return to government, we are going to put them in prison.' The statement was made within the framework of the labor reform debate in the Senate and generated an immediate crossfire with officialist sectors, who qualified his words as a threat, according to the Argentine News Agency (NA). During his speech, the legislator from the Justicialist bloc flatly rejected the project promoted by the Government and questioned the lack of foundation in the interventions of the officialist senators. From the officialism, the tone of his words was questioned, while from the opposition they defended the right to express a critical position against a project that, they say, implies a setback in labor rights. In another segment of his speech, he assured that the law 'returns to the 1929 wording' and criticized the search to modify the eight-hour workday scheme, one of the historical conquests of the labor movement. The senator's statements deepened the tension in a session already marked by strong political crossfire. He also affirmed that the initiative 'is not designed to generate jobs' and that similar reforms have already been implemented in recent decades without positive results. Recalde also pointed to some specific changes in the text, such as the possibility of splitting vacations by agreement between employer and worker.
