The ruling party could lose the first minority in Deputies if Grabois decides to break with the Government – Up Jobs News

The “Massa effect” did not take long to fully impact the fragile internal coexistence of the Frente de Todos. Dissatisfied with the first measures announced by the new Economy Minister, the leader John Grabois and the three deputies who respond to him in the Great Homeland Front threatened to break with the government, a situation that could cost the ruling party lose their status as the first minority in the lower house.

Indeed, if the rupture occurs, the bench that leads German Martinez it would go from 118 members to 115, which would place it numerically below the Together for Change interblock, with 116 members. The impact will not be such, however, if the three deputies –Itai Hagman, Natalia Zaracho and Federico Fagioli–form a sub-block, since they would remain within the ruling party, which had already become an interbloc. This is what the referents of the Great Fatherland Front will discuss in the coming days.

Either of the two alternatives, if materialized, they will not have immediate effect in the current scheme of authorities of the lower house (which will be renewed in December), but they would cause more headaches for the leadership of the ruling bloc that, with three fewer deputies under its belt, The task of reaching a quorum in the room will be more complicated when the most thorny economic laws are discussed, including the budget.

At the top of the ruling bloc, the attitude of the “rebel” deputies was not surprising and they try not to dramatize the situation. They bet that the dialogue will finally avoid the trauma of the breakup. As soon as she took office last Tuesday, the new president of the Chamber of Deputies Cecilia Moreau He received Grabois in his office and, the next day, Martínez had a one-on-one talk with deputies Hagman, Zaracho and Fagioli. They knew of their discontent and sought to calm things down, although deep down they admit that, beyond their willingness to dialogue, the situation exceeds them. “It is the Casa Rosada that imparts the economic line”, they hide behind.

After the conversations with Moreau and Martínez, the trio decided to attend “as a gesture of goodwill” at the assumption of Sergio Massa as Minister of Economy in the Casa Rosada. However, when the first measures were announced, they were convinced that the Government was located in the antipodes of its claims.

“Although there were lukewarm references to retirees and private sector wage earners, there was not the slightest announcement for the postponed social sectors”, was the reproach launched by the Great Fatherland Front the day after Massa’s announcements. “On the other hand, there were announcements for other sectors, particularly large businessmen, exporters, mega-mining, oil companies, as well as the unchanged continuity of the anti-popular agreement signed with the IMF,” they lamented.

The hosts of Grabois will define in ten days, in a congress with the militancy of the Front Patria Grande, whether or not they will remain within the Front of All. “We have not decided to leave (the Front of All), but we have raised the need to discuss our continuity or not, our membership, in the bloc, or build an interblock”, anticipated deputy Fagioli, who considered Massa’s announcements “insufficient”.

“It was necessary to remember the Argentine men and women who are below the indigence line,” reproached the Buenos Aires native, who insisted on the need to discuss the implementation of a universal basic salaryflag of your group.

In the official leadership they discount that this initiative will hardly prosper due to the fiscal cost that it implies. Nevertheless, they do not rule out the advancement of other pending projects presented by the Grabois groupsuch as a new packaging law or the artisanal fishing law.

“It’s a paradox: while ‘those from above’ (President Alberto Fernández and Cristina Kirchner) were fighting, we in the bloc stayed united. Now that the leadership of the Front of All has achieved a certain unity of action, below we fight. Likewise, the blood will not reach the river”, confided a veteran pro-government legislator.