After months of domestic tension in the preparations for the replacement of members of parliament, Patricia Bullrich and victoria villaruel They met this Friday at senate To agree on the political functions of the Senate during special elections. The Minister of Security and the Senate La Libertad Avanza Block Leaderthe executive team’s project seeks to rebuild ties. priority It’s on the agenda. The vice president, who holds the office of president of the Senate, assured cooperation and insisted on a rigorous profile. institutional.
The meeting, which lasted more than an hour in Villaruel’s office, came days after Bullrich publicly said he would question the vice president.Please help us and don’t boycott“This message ultimately prompted a meeting within the ruling party that it considered key to organizing a chamber that moved from a seven-libertarian senator to a 20-member bloc, with a new power distribution and the need to clarify the majority for the reforms the government wanted to initiate from parliament.” December 10th.
As Mr. Bullrich left the Legislative Palace, he summarized the significance of the meeting. “We are talking about the need to give priority space to the official agenda. As LLA, as a bloc of government, it is our responsibility to unite the political will.” build a majority That’s what we’re trying to do,” he told reporters.
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In his new role as chairman of the tribunal, the minister is expected to resign from the security committee a few days before the swearing-in ceremony scheduled for December 4. “We will do everything we have to do to ensure the implementation of the executive branch’s projects,” he added, noting that coordination with Villaruel will be key to preserving the ruling party’s legislative plans.
Mr. Bullrich prepares to lead the liberal camp in the Senate and will have to coexist with Victoria Villaruel.
Villaruel: “They were chosen by the Argentine people and it is not my role to discuss their representativeness.”
The vice president responded with a message that sought to dispel doubts about his role in Senate dynamics. “My position is known to all members of the House staff and to all members of the Senate. I like to work in an environment where everyone feels comfortable, and that is my goal as a new member of the House.”
Villaruel stressed that the door to his office is open to all MPs, including those from the liberal bloc. “Each senator will have the door to my office open and I will do everything I can to make them feel comfortable. They were elected by the Argentine people, and it is not my role to argue about their representativeness, Patricia Bullrich or anyone else.” was expressed.
According to an investigation by National Diet officials, profilethe message was aimed at sorting out expectations within the ruling party: the vice president assured support but reminded that building a majority is the exclusive responsibility of the bloc led by Bullrich, while the Senate president must maintain the institutional functioning of parliament.
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The meeting comes at a time when the ruling party is seeking to realign its parliamentary strategy. With the expansion of the Libertarian Bloc’s membership to 20 members, Mr. Bullrich will be responsible for organizing internal activities, defining deputy leaders, allocating committees, and supporting the necessary votes for economic, tax, and labor reforms that the government will send as temporary reform proposals.
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This message reached even wider. During the first two years of administration, Casa Rosada and the Senate coexisted with chaotic dialogue, political callousness, and public distance between Millay and Villaruel, a distance that worsened during parliamentary debates. basis law. Friday’s meeting served as a necessary detente gesture as the ruling party heads into a legislative summer in which it needs every vote.
In parallel, the debate over the Senate pro tempore remains unresolved. Bartolomé Abdalla And it must be ratified during the preparatory meeting in February. Bullrich declined to give a definition, but acknowledged that the bloc’s reorganization means a new chain of command and a different working model than the LLA has had for the past two years.
A few minutes after the meeting, Mr. Bullrich issued a message on X reinforcing the adjustment signal. So he said the following: “In a meeting with Vice President Victoria Villaruel, we spoke about the need to embark on serious institutional efforts to ensure that the government’s agenda has a clear space in the Senate. Our bloc is made up of seven to 20 senators, and we have a strong and orderly body to ensure that the projects the president needs are debated and voted on. We have to build a decent majority. The Vice President expressed his full willingness to work together within his institutional role. (…) From now on, I will do everything necessary to move the Senate forward,” the Argentinians said, “so that the changes they voted for remain firmly in their tracks.”
With a ceasefire in place and a clear commitment to cooperation, the ruling party is now trying to translate its political will into a vote. The unusual election, which began in December and continues into February, will be the first test of a relationship that has shifted from mistrust to pragmatism in the Senate, once again at the center of the political map.
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