Legislative Assembly: there are blocks that have announced they will not attend and others are thinking of sending a "delegation"

The senators of Unión por la Patria in the Senate took the lead by announcing that they will not participate in the opening of the sessions this Saturday - which will be headed by President Javier Milei - but they will not be the only ones absent . Their peers in the House of Representatives are debating whether to skip the meeting en masse or send only a "delegation" , while other benches began to analyze the same, especially after the announcement of the designation by decree of the judges for the Supreme Court.

"We decided unanimously not to attend the legislative assembly as a rejection of the president's statements," declared the head of the UP interbloc in the Senate, José Mayans . "We are not going to listen to the president because he treats us very badly, he lies and does not give instructions for the Budget to be debated," he added.

Now the deputies will define their position this Wednesday morning in a meeting via Zoom. According to what Clarín found out, the majority announced their inclination to “ not lend themselves to Milei’s show .”

However, sources from the bloc did not rule out the presence of a sort of “minimal delegation” made up of Germán Martínez, the president of the bloc, and some other deputies . This would be, in turn, a way out in the event that part of the group, especially the legislators who answer to governors such as Raúl Jalil and Gerardo Zamora, decide to come down to the chamber. In this way, the division between different positions would not be exposed.

The members of Unión por la Patria were uncertain on Tuesday about the attendance of the Peronist provincial leaders to the Legislative Assembly on Saturday. One of the deputies contacted Axel Kicillof, and the governor of Buenos Aires told him that he had not received an invitation so far.

"Most of us are not willing to support him calling us rats and speaking ill of all Argentines abroad. Nor is it justified to be concerned about an institutional issue when this President does not want to discuss the Budget in order to do what he wants with the resources," argued one of the deputies who will take this position to the meeting on Wednesday.

Left-wing legislators are also considering not attending as a way of rejecting Milei and his policies. They will decide in the next few hours.

Meanwhile, the Democracy for Ever bench - referred to by the critical radicals Martín Lousteau and Facundo Manes - had a block meeting this Tuesday in which they agreed to have a " minimal representation ." The legislators from the interior will not travel for the occasion and the head of the bench, Pablo Juliano, will be present, along with some others from AMBA.

"The president appointed two judges to the Supreme Court by commission by decree. In other words, two of the five justices of the highest court were "smuggled" by the Executive without the agreement of the national Senate. In November, the President decided that Argentina would not have a Budget Law for the second consecutive year. How can he face speaking before Congress on Saturday if it is clear that he does not believe in republican institutions ?" Juliano said.

At Encuentro Federal, the bloc chaired by Miguel Angel Pichetto, they decided that the majority would be present. There are some absentees with notice, such as the Santa Fe socialists Esteban Paulón and Mónica Fein, who have an activity in Uruguay, but the rest were willing to attend. However, they recognize that the designation of Lijo and Mansilla, strained the situation. "Now with the Court thing we have to talk again," said a member of that bloc.