The government called for the opening of regular sessions of Congress after the fall of extraordinary sessions without progress

president Alberto Fernandez called the opening of the regular session for this Friday National Congress By Decree 91/2023 published in the Official Gazette with his signature and that of Agustín Rossi, Chief of Staff.

As is done year after year, representatives and senators will return to a regular session schedule beginning next Wednesday March 1stand the official opening will take place from 11 o’clock.

Therefore, “using the powers conferred by Article 99, Paragraph 8 of the National Constitution”, the President decreed “opening of regular sessions of the Honorable National Congress for the current year” for “next March 1 at 11:00 a.m.”.

In accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, regular meetings must be held between March 1 and November 30 each year, with the possibility that the Chief Executive Officer may request opening of extraordinary sessions deal with specific issues raised by the executive.

Despite the fact that this Fernández made extraordinary calls during the summer, sessions that culminated this Thursday, February 23 institutional act by which the Senate confirmed its powers for this year, The upper house never met due to lack of quorum.

therefore, from about 30 proposed projects The executive power for the extraordinary period did not approve any of them, among them the establishment of new national universities, the Act on the promotion of agro-industrial development, pike law, whose goal is to detect and prevent violence against children; and Law on zero alcohol behind the wheelamong other issues of a social and economic nature.

A short session where the Senate confirmed its powers for 2023 and closed the regular sessions It was not chaired by its current president, Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchnerbut his replacement: Claudia Ledesma.

Before the end of this period Frente de Todos wanted develop a double session define authorities and, later, advance in agenda of agreed topics.

However, the ruling party did not get the minimum number to open the debate at the venue. Although the ruling party’s votes were against Together for Change for the quorum, it is true that dissolution of the Frente de Todos bloc in the Upper House was the great enemy of the day: from now on Kirchner must join the new bloc federal unitwho surprisingly broke with the Government this Wednesday, in order to achieve a quorum that had previously been secured.

Now, after the disintegration of the Frente de Todos, this was constituted as a an interbloc of 31 senators divided into two benches: the National and People’s Front, with 19 representatives, and the Civic Unit, which consists of 12.