Thursday, January 12, 2023 | 7:00 p.m.
The spokesperson for the Presidency, Gabriela Cerruti, announced today the 27 projects that make up the agenda that will be included in the call for extraordinary sessions of the National Congress, which will be formalized tonight and will run from January 23 to January 28. February.
At the beginning of the conference given to the accredited press at the Casa Rosada, the spokeswoman pointed out that tonight the call of the Executive Branch to extraordinary sessions of the National Congress will be published in the Official Gazette, through Decree 17 /2023, signed by President Alberto Fernández and the Chief of Staff, Juan Manzur.
“We have an extensive agenda with very important projects for all Argentines that have to do with productive development and judicial issues, such as the appointment of the Attorney General of the Nation and the reform of the Council of the Magistracy, which the Supreme Court itself of Justice has asked that they be carried out”, he affirmed.
And in this context, he demanded that “the opposition understand that in the free game of democracy and of the institutions, it is necessary to sit down to debate in Congress and not extort money from the Government, and therefore from society, just by dealing with issues that concern them.” they are interested”.
When asked about the evolution of the Consumer Price Index, Cerruti stressed that the primary objective that was proposed when the Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, took office, of reaching annual inflation that was not in three digits as a result of a gradual monthly decline.
“We are at a time when registered employment continues to grow,” the official remarked, noting that “currently 21 provinces are in a situation of full employment.”
“If we continue on the descending scale of inflation, as we have been seeing in the last quarter, and the joint ventures continue to work and more and more people join formal work, we are on the path that the President and the Minister of Economy set” , he claimed.
The draft amendments to the Transit and Road Safety Law on Zero Breathalyzer for driving a vehicle will be part of the parliamentary debate, to establish the Health Team Residency System, approval of the National Science, Technology and Innovation Plan 2030, Modifications to the Law for the Promotion of Technological Innovation, the Law for the Execution of Prison Sentences and the Comprehensive Approach to Institutional Violence in Security and Penitentiary Services.
Also the projects to request impeachment of the members of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation and to expand its number of members, the treatment to designate the Attorney General of the Nation, modifications to the Law tending to the legislation related to the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing and the Law on the Judicial Council and the creation of the Laguna El Palmar National Park and the Agujero Azul Marine Protected Area.
Likewise, the initiatives to create provisional debt payment, national universities and the agro-industrial development promotion regime, to establish a differential regime for workers who work as forest or rural fire fighters and a simplified regime for small taxpayers. technology, which ensures the containment and monitoring of people diagnosed with Down syndrome, the externalization of Argentine savings, the promotion of new energy and value-added investments in the energy sector and to modify the National Statistical System, among others.
