In the Argentine Senate, only seven senators supported the presidential veto of the National Government. Libertarian legislators Bartolomé Esteban Abdala and Ivanna Rastaeta by San Luis, Ezequiel Airuco by Jujuy, Bruno Olivera Lucero for San Juan, Juan Carlos Pagotto for La Rioja and Francisco Paoltroni by Formosa, Together with the Cordoba Carmen Álvarez Rivero del Prothey remained firm in defense of the presidential veto to the law of Emergency in disabilitywhile 63 legislators of different blocks decided to reject it strongly.
The decision of Javier Milei If the norm had been based on tax reasons. The Executive argued that the project, designed to guarantee extraordinary resources and reinforce programs for people with disabilities, was incompatible with the adjustment and austerity policy because it implied a budget imbalance without defined financing.
However, the discussion in the chamber did not occur in a technical vacuum but under the weight of a scandal that shakes the government itself and that directly involves the National Disability Agency. The filtered audios of the then head of the agency, Diego Spagnuolo, They revealed alleged negotiations of coimas linked to the purchase and distribution of medicines, in which first -line names of the ruling party were mentioned as Karina Milei and Eduardo “Lule” Menem.
This event resulted in judicial complaints, raids at the headquarters of the Andis Argentine Swiss. Judicial investigation accelerated under the orbit of the federal judge Sebastián Casanellowho ordered raids in properties linked to Jonathan and Emmanuel Kovalivker, Children of Eduardo Kovalivkerfounder of the company supplier of medicines.
The credibility crisis that the executive is going through around disability ended up dyeing the support of the seven senators, a gesture of fidelity towards the head of state that was isolated against the general rejection of the upper house and that exposed, once again, the tensions between the story of austerity and the shadows of corruption that pursue the ruling party. Especially in a very sensitive issue as a whole.
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