The possibility of Deputies voting on the
Base Law
on Wednesday - as had been scheduled in the initial schedule - disappeared. The Government is now betting on ruling on the project this week
and taking it to the premises, along with the fiscal package, on Monday the 29th.
They want to have the half-sanction approved, at most, by the early hours of May 1st.
Late Thursday, Martín Menem received the leaders of the dialogue blocs in his office and set the roadmap.
The idea is to rule on the Bases Law in a plenary session of commissions on Wednesday, adding the Labor Reform,
which has not yet been agreed upon, and on Thursday give the green light to the fiscal package in the Budget. The session would begin on Monday and "at most," they believe it will end in the early hours of the holiday.
In order to meet these dates, on Friday delegates from La Rosada's Chief of Staff and Economy met throughout the afternoon with the representatives of the banks.
They collected the proposals and agreed to work over the weekend to make a return.
As Clarín
said
, the visions are much closer than in the summer, when the paradox occurred that
the law was passed in general and then was left empty of content
because the ruling party withdrew the project when the articles in particular began to be voted on. .
However, there are still key points of the norm with an uncertain ending, such as article 70 of
deregulation of the private economy, the update of the
Income
Tax
, the modifications of
trust funds
, the
tobacco tax
, the repeal of the
pension moratorium
and the investment regime.
"There are points that have already been received positively but
we wait to see the text and for those changes to be confirmed in the wording
," said a key radical in the negotiations.
Regarding labor reform, the outlook is more uncertain. There are at least three different projects presented by the opposition that must be agreed upon. The elimination of the union fee, which includes the UCR text, is impassable for other groups such as that of Miguel Angel Pichetto, and the Government itself is not encouraged to do so.
For it to pass, the labor reform has to be "light."
And in that sense, three key points are established:
extension of the trial period
-some say 6 months and others 8-; creation of an optional
labor termination
regime (UOCRA type) by collective agreement to replace compensation; and regarding
fines to employers for unregistered work,
they must agree on whether to directly eliminate them or suspend them for two years or reduce them.
Bases Law: main focuses of discussion
Raising the Income
Tax floor
to $1.8 million for singles has consensus - except in Patagonian governors - but
the annual update is a massive claim
. They ask to maintain it every three months, or a maximum of six. Others are evaluating some type of "trigger clause."
In the article that empowers the Executive to eliminate or modify
trust funds
, the opposition demands that the specific allocation - if they have it - be respected through the Budget and, if not, that they are formed with co-participating taxes if they do. They dissolve that the assets do not go only to the Treasury, as Nación proposes, but to the co-participating mass.
Article 70 remains "impassable."
This point empowers the Executive to repeal or modify regulations on private economic activity in different cases. Although the wording was changed to better specify the cases, the opposition argues that it is still "very broad" and a "blank check."
In the
privatization
article they continue to ask that
Banco Nación and its six companies be included in a separate article,
as a way to prevent those who reject this possible privatization from voting against the entire article. The opposition also proposes that if there is a scandalous SIGEN report on a particular case, beyond the Bicameral of Privatizations, the Chambers should be empowered to block the privatization within a period of 45 days.
In the article that allows the dissolution or intervention of public organizations, they ask to extend the list already prepared of organizations that cannot be "touched" by the Executive and add, for example,
the Malbrán laboratory, Incucai, Anmat
and the meteorological service national.
The surprise elimination of the tobacco tax chapter - which benefits Pablo Otero, of Tabacalera Sarandí, who is called "Mr. Tobacco" - generates unrest. The opposition will insist on including this issue in the project. They will raise it on the premises and if everyone joins together they can get the majority to impose it. "
We are tired of this, of the game of interests, of the President putting a blanket of suspicion on everyone, but they themselves are the ones who withdraw the issue and no one takes charge
," they point out.
NE