En una sesión nocturna, el Senado ratificó la ley de financiamiento universitario y aprobó la boleta única en papel. Sin embargo, rechazó el DNU que asignaba 100.000 millones de pesos a la Agencia Federal de Inteligencia (AFI), lo que generó un comunicado del presidente Javier Milei culpando a los legisladores por posibles riesgos terroristas. Esta es la primera vez que ambas cámaras rechazan un decreto de necesidad y urgencia del Poder Ejecutivo.
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00:00Almost overnight, the Senate was moved. Why?
00:05Because, first, the Senate ratified the university funding law.
00:10And now comes a new round with the degenerate prosecutors.
00:14President Javier Miele is surely going to veto this law,
00:17which involves an increase in the university budget
00:19and also an emergency increase for university teachers,
00:22who were very late in this inflationary year in their salaries.
00:27But they also approved the one-off paper ballot.
00:30Now let's see what this is about.
00:32But there was also a rejection of the other DNU,
00:36which had 100 billion pesos in reserved funds for the CIDE,
00:42the new, restructured CIDE, which was the AFI,
00:45and which is now the CIDE for the intelligence service.
00:47That rejection means that that DNU can no longer be done.
00:52It was already rejected by deputies, and now the Senate rejects it.
00:56The government has just released a statement
00:58repudiating what the DNU of the CIDE's reserved funds rejected.
01:02Exactly. It was an official statement from the president's office
01:05that they blame the deputies and senators.
01:09They say it's going to be the legislators' fault
01:11if something related to terrorism happens from now on,
01:13because of what they rejected.
01:15Let's remember that since 2006,
01:17when this law was in force to deal with the DNU
01:20in the Congress of the Nation,
01:22a decree on the need and urgency of the executive power had never been rejected.
01:27It's the first time.
01:29So two chambers reject a DNU.
01:31Exactly. Well, it had already been rejected in the House of Representatives,
01:35and now the Senate of the Nation rejected it.
01:37There we have the statement that says
01:39that it condemns the irresponsible vote of a group of legislators
01:43who left the Argentine intelligence system
01:45without resources at a historical moment in the country.
01:47There, well, as everything happens in Argentina,
01:49there is the paranoid version of the government
01:51that says, no, we are on the lookout for international terrorism,
01:54they are going to attack us,
01:56as part of the alignment of President Milley with Israel.
02:00But there is also the question of suspicion,
02:04better said, quite evident suspicion
02:06on the part of the opposition,
02:08that those funds are being used to pay
02:10professional insulters, trolls, operations,
02:14and even the suspicion that there may be
02:16black money to change votes in deputies or in the Senate.
02:22So all this is what has generated
02:24that both chambers say, no, no, no,
02:26you know what? Similar growth,
02:28because 100 billion pesos are 100 million dollars
02:33from here at the end of the year,
02:35because then there will be another amount next year.
02:37What they say from the opposition, not a country at war
02:39has such a large amount of reserved funds,
02:41because if precisely what they say from the Casa Rosada is,
02:44well, we need to pay salaries,
02:46we need to improve the system, buy buildings,
02:48buy devices.
02:50They don't need that, they need reserved funds.
02:52Of course, there it is.
02:54They give explanations, if it is to pay salaries,
02:56if it is to buy buildings.
02:58No, if it is to buy a system of, I don't know,
03:00phone prints, satellites, drones,
03:02they can ask for it and buy it.
03:04Why reserved funds? What does the government want to hide?
03:06What are you doing with that money that you can't explain where it goes?
03:08The detail is that they have already spent it.
03:10The detail is that they would have spent it.
03:12There is a whole discussion about that,
03:14because the one who has to control,
03:16according to the National Intelligence Law,
03:18what the CIDE does with the reserved funds,
03:20is the Commission and the Intelligence Chamber,
03:22which, we know, a couple of weeks ago,
03:24designated as president of that commission
03:26to Martín Lustó, through an agreement
03:28that came to that sector of radicalism
03:30with Kirchnerism.
03:32So the government is complicated.
03:34They wanted someone else to be the one who presides over this commission,
03:36which is precisely what the CIDE has to do,
03:38is to control in what it spends those funds.
03:40And the radicals, this time,
03:42at least the Senate radicals,
03:44also voted,
03:46not only against the DNU of the reserved funds,
03:48but they also voted
03:50in favor of the law
03:52that expands the university budget
03:54and that surely the president will veto.
03:56Imagine how the weather will be on Sunday
03:58when my law goes to present the budget,
04:00because in the budget we talk about money,
04:02and here we are talking about money.
04:04Now we have to see what happens with the veto
04:06that I have already announced that I will make my law
04:08in favor of the university budget,
04:10because 57 additions against 10 rejections
04:12had. It is a vote
04:14that won by a wide consensus.
04:16We have to see later this veto
04:18if the same thing happens again,
04:20maybe the Congress can insist.
04:22But hey, that's why there are very strong
04:24negotiations in the Casa Rosada
04:26with a sector of radicalism.
04:28In fact, they were angry at Balcarce 50
04:30because the day, a few days ago,
04:32Javier Milley joined
04:34with Victoria Villarreal
04:36and several other senators,
04:38including the president of the radical
04:40bench in the Senate,
04:42and there Javier Milley would have told them
04:44do not approve the university budget
04:46that I am going to incorporate
04:48in the budget that I am going to present on Sunday.
04:50Do not worry, they did not believe him.
04:52First they did not believe him,
04:54and second, what are you doing this year?
04:56And then, in that meeting,
04:58they had also agreed that they were going
05:00to postpone the debate for the funds
05:02reserved by the CIA for a week
05:04Patricia Bullrich,
05:06no one understands why Patricia Bullrich,
05:08there is no need to give explanations
05:10about what the CIA does with the money
05:12Patricia Bullrich, because it is another ministry.
05:14Well, they had said that they were going
05:16to give a secret session in the Senate
05:18to explain.
05:20This is the important thing,
05:22they did not give them a ball
05:24and they rejected the money.
05:26Of course, the radicals,
05:28who supposedly had already discussed
05:30this with Milley and Patricia Bullrich,
05:32to try to convince the president
05:34of the block of senators of radicalism,
05:36who was quite convinced
05:38after the meeting in Casa Rosada
05:40to postpone the debate
05:42on the funds reserved by the CIA.
05:44A detail there, in the parliamentary labor meeting
05:46in which Victoria Villarroel was in the Senate
05:48the night before the session,
05:50they did not sign the labor plan
05:52neither the presidents of the block
05:54of Unión por la Patria nor of radicalism.
05:56So the door was left open.
05:58They did not discuss the issue,
06:00but the next day, on the table,
06:02this sector of radicalism,
06:04which supposedly had been convinced
06:06of Casa Rosada,
06:08got together with Unión por la Patria
06:10and managed to incorporate it.
06:12And in the same way that we told you
06:14that the government had a triumph
06:16when it managed to stop the veto
06:18to increase the pensioners,
06:20that is, it managed to prevent
06:22the increase of the pensioners' money,
06:24it had a defeat when they rejected
06:26the debt of the funds of the CIA
06:28when they voted against
06:30the university budget law,
06:32which they will surely veto
06:34and then the university students
06:36will return to the streets.