In a new sign of the internal rift shaking the ruling party, Senator Patricia Bullrich announced she had suspended the management report that Chief of Staff Manuel Adorni was to deliver in the Senate on July 2. However, the minister pushed back, asserting he is available to attend. The move exposed fractures within the libertarian bloc and sparked discontent among the ruling party’s own senators.
“I suspended it because it made no sense to have him come just to be grilled publicly for eight hours,” Bullrich said, justifying the decision. But Adorni responded on social media with a message contradicting the former minister: “I am available to appear on July 2 before the Honorable Senate of the Nation to provide the management report as mandated by the National Constitution.”
Sources close to Bullrich said the suspension was agreed upon with the Secretary General of the Presidency, Karina Milei, and the Secretary of Strategic Affairs, Ignacio Devitt. Those close to Adorni, however, indicated the issue was that the media “were running headlines that he didn’t want to go.”
Within the libertarian bloc, several senators who had attended a meeting at the Casa Rosada with Adorni and Karina Milei expressed bewilderment. “It’s a mess,” “inexplicable,” and “unprecedented” were some of the comments heard after the chief of staff’s tweet.
Meanwhile, Bullrich reached an agreement with the dialoguing opposition to toughen the conditions for a potential interpellation of Adorni. In a meeting of the Parliamentary Labor Committee, it was established that a two-thirds majority of those present would be required to allow discussion of a request for interpellation—something the Kirchnerist faction is seeking to push forward this Thursday.
The document signed this afternoon reverses the agreement reached last week, when Bullrich had accepted that a simple majority would suffice. Now, the ruling party demands a two-thirds majority, citing precedents such as the case of former Chief of Staff Guillermo Francos, who faced a censure motion in June 2023 that did not reach the required two-thirds threshold.
Peronism, absent from the meeting, has already warned that it will demand adherence to the previous agreement. The Kirchnerist faction seeks to interpellate Adorni over his “questionable asset growth” over the past two years, an issue that has put him in the opposition’s crosshairs.
Thursday’s session, scheduled for 11 a.m., maintains the agreed agenda, which includes the controversial bill on the inviolability of private property. But the ruling party’s internal feud promises to stir debate, with Adorni standing his ground and Bullrich trying to shield him in her own way.
Para mí esto huele a opereta berreta. Bullrich se quiere hacer la canchera y frenar al mejor jefe de Gabinete que tuvimos, Adorni. Yo creo que se tienen que ir todos, son unos cagones. El informe va igual, no le den bola a esa zurda que se cree dueña del Congreso. ¡Basta de payasadas!
che pero para mi estos son un circo romano bullrich y adorni peleandose como nenes de jardin mientras la gente se muere de hambre son unos fachos de mierda que solo piensan en sus sillones no les importa una garcha el pueblo vayan a laburar lacras subcomandante pocho