The week started with the full stench of betrayal in Congress. While the national team was playing, Patricia Bullrich was pulling strings to protect Manuel Adorni from the interpellation she herself had agreed to just five days ago. The Security Minister, with some allies, seeks to erase with her elbow what she signed with her hand and reverse the conditions to corner the Chief of Staff in the Senate.
As often happens in Argentine politics, the discussion moved to the rules. Bullrich had accepted, along with all parliamentary blocs – government, opposition, and allies – that this Thursday the interpellation of the former spokesperson would be voted on with an absolute majority of 37 senators. But tomorrow at 6 p.m., the goal is to reverse course. The president of the libertarian bloc requested a new meeting of the Parliamentary Labor committee with the heads of all blocs. The call came with the authorization of Victoria Villarruel, president of that body. “It will be made clear that to address the issue on the floor, a two-thirds majority is required because it is a bill that lacks a committee opinion,” they repeat in the senator’s office. And it would have the support of the Radicals in that interpretation.
In parallel, and to keep allies happy, the strategy includes opening the Constitutional Affairs committee to discuss the interpellations of Adorni, then obtain an opinion, and finally reach the floor, on a much longer timeline than the original this Thursday. The move allows some allies to appear as promoters of the questioning of the Chief of Staff over his asset growth, but without being the ones to push him out of the Casa Rosada. The original one-week deadline, set last Wednesday, was a message to the Executive for Javier Milei to let go of the official. Faced with the president’s resistance, the Senate does not dare to act. In any case, Adorni had already confirmed his presence on the floor on July 2 to deliver the mandatory management report. Karina Milei had asked Bullrich to wait for the former spokesperson’s performance that day to define his continuity.
In the Chamber of Deputies, Adorni breathes easy. After Martín Menem’s maneuver to send the bills on the Chief of Staff to committee, the session called for this Tuesday by the opposition moves away from quorum. “We were missing 10 but now we are worse off,” confides one of the conveners. They will go ahead anyway. The PRO, the Radicals, and the federal deputies will not attend. We must see what the Cordobesistas of Juan Schiaretti and Martín Llaryora do, who last week fired off tweets against Adorni and some signed the call. “They will argue that it must absolutely go through committee, and they will not support a motion to compel since the government itself has already scheduled the committee for the 30th. There will be an endless regulatory debate, and if it goes to a vote, everyone votes against… the committee is convened. We will make them pay the political cost of supporting Adorni. That’s why, whatever happens, we go down tomorrow,” assures an opposition member promoting the session.
Bullrich’s move is a low blow for the opposition, which sees the possibility of interpellating Adorni vanish. Meanwhile, the Chief of Staff remains shielded by the government, which does not hesitate to use all regulatory tools to prevent him from being held accountable. Argentine politics, once again, shows that agreements last as long as a soccer match.
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Para mí, Bullrich es una vendepatria que se arrodilla ante el poder. Blindar a Adorni es tapar la podredumbre de este gobierno neoliberal. Los radicales, lacayos de siempre, la acompañan en esta traición. La interpelación era un derecho del pueblo y nos lo roban. ¡Fuera todos, que se vayan a sus countries!