This week, the technological monotribute bill, one of the many requests sent by the Executive Branch for treatment in extraordinary cases, received an opinion. In this case, a part of the opposition participated in the debates in the Budget and Finance Commission of the Chamber of Deputies. The will to work prevailed over the will to prevent.
The president of the block of deputies of the Frente de Todos, Germán Martínez, referred to this: “Last week there was a very good debate (…); If there is any element that improves it (the project) a little more, you are welcome, there is always a time between the opinion and the venue so that we can do it (…) If there really is a vocation to establish a healthy political negotiation, let me know. The possibility of opening a debate on this issue gives us the possibility of getting out of this situation that Together for Change is leading us to, for which we cannot have commissions or venues; I’m at least willing to explore it.”
Parliamentary work, through the exchange of arguments and proposals between the different blocks, contributes to improving the projects. This is made difficult when a sector of the legislators refuses to participate both in the commissions and in the venue.
In this case, the technological monotax has the objective that the small operators of the new technologies, which invoice up to 30 thousand dollars per year, have, on the one hand, a series of facilities such as a simplified tax regime, similar to the monotax in general, that gathers the pension cost, that of social security and the tax; on the other, that they have a regime that allows them to enter dollars without having to go through the exchange market, incorporating a facility for these young and independent workers who work abroad.
This project is added to others that can already be dealt with in the venue, since they have an opinion or, even, there were already on the agenda of the meetings that cannot be carried out due to the boycott of Together for Change.
The main opposition blocked the treatment of these issues in the venue because they do not agree with many of them. It does not coincide with the policy of creating new universities or with the initiative that allows people who have reached retirement age – without the necessary amount of contributions – to “buy” installments of what they owe and, thus, be able to retire, among many other projects.
In line with the above, in a recent document, Together for Change expresses its concern about a supposed “time bomb” that the real government is developing. To destabilize, to try to generate panic and to interrupt the growth and recovery process in Argentina.
They made the “bomb” and they abandoned it to us with the fuse lit: a debt of 45 billion dollars with the IMF, the vast majority with two-year maturities (2022 and 2023). In addition, the public debt with private bondholders grew by 65 billion dollars during the administration of Mauricio Macri. Just a couple of facts: the country’s total public debt when Cristina’s second term ended in 2015 was 52.6% of GDP; when Macri left it reached 89.8%. As of September last year it was 79.8%, 10% less than when Juntos por el Cambio left. Of that total debt, 66.9% was in foreign currency when Cristina’s government ended; at the end of Macri’s term it was 77.7%. As of September of last year, it was again 66.7%.
Our policy is the permanent construction of consensus. The Frente de Todos Bloc tries to move forward with all these initiatives. But the will of one party is not enough: the will of the others is always needed. In this context, Together for Change has been blocking parliamentary operations for a few months.
It is essential to return to the full functioning of Parliament. A long series of projects are waiting to become laws and improve the lives of Argentines and Argentines.
* National deputy for the Frente de Todos and president of the Solidarity Party.
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