The government is trying to ensure that pension and disability vetoes are protected, but the closure of alliances complicates matters.

Javier Milei will sign the veto on August 4 or 5 against the pension increase, the pension moratorium, and the disability emergency. The President's rejection of the battery of laws passed by the Senate comes at the last minute, as Clarín had anticipated , due to the delay in sending the notification from Congress to the Casa Rosada.

The ruling party's strategy is a carbon copy of previous vetoes, such as the increase in funding for universities and raises for retirees. This time, in the middle of it all, it engineered the creation of a bloc with the "radicals in wigs " who had already saved it last year.

With them, veto protection would practically be guaranteed if the votes of the PRO, the MID, and Oscar Zago are counted.

However, the accounts with the party bloc founded by Mauricio Macri are fraught with the finalization of national alliances , which will be finalized on August 7. There are no doubts in the Rosada about the actions of the Buenos Aires deputies who have already reached an agreement with LLA.

However, the voting intention of the true Macri supporters , who abstained when the bills were approved in the House of Representatives and who still don't know who will be on their ballot in October, remains a mystery.

Most of them respond to Mauricio Macri, who is quietly pushing—with the voice of his right-hand man Fernando de Andreis and that of the head of the Buenos Aires government —for an agreement with the libertarians in the Capital .

To that end, the PRO council in the city will authorize Ezequiel Sabor and Ezequiel Jarvis this Thursday to forge alliances. If not with the Violets, then with the Radicals, but the Yellows want it with the former.

María Eugenia Vidal wants the libertarians out . Silvia Lospennato lost to Manuel Adorni . Both had avoided voting in line with the Rosada (Presidential House). The case of María Sotolano is curious. She abstained; she is the only national representative who answers directly to Jorge Macri and will be the second candidate for the pro-libertarian front in the third section of the Buenos Aires province.

The Macris are banking on a last-minute agreement in Buenos Aires City precisely to adjust that narrative. Karina Milei didn't want it, but now a window has opened with delegates from both sides, ambassadors from Macri (Mauricio) and Milei (Karina). "If there's no agreement, everything will be mixed up, but those are the rules of the game," the executive branch admitted.

Therefore, to finish patching up the veto protections, Guillermo Francos —described by the President as " the plastic man " and a new member of the iron triangle and a sort of ambassador to what the head of state calls the caste—continued his silent containment operation with governors, away from the spotlight of the Rural Society.

In the last two weeks, the Chief of Staff received Gustavo Sáenz (Salta), Alfredo Cornejo (Mendoza), Carlos Sadir (Jujuy), Raúl Jalil (Catamarca), Rogelio Frigerio (Entre Ríos), Ignacio Torres (Chubut), Claudio Vidal (Santa Cruz), Rolando Figueroa (Neuquén) and Leandro Zdero (Chaco) under the radar.

This gesture, disguised as a management approach involving the districts, contradicts the provincial executives who suggested that the government offered nothing to the governors to reconsider their position. " They were angry about the elections; distancing themselves from the government provides local benefits ," Francos said in an interview with A24.

The coordinating minister sought cooperation from provincial leaders through absences and abstentions, and also to reject some of his demands, which had already received partial approval in the Senate, such as the ATN and fuel taxes .

The announcement of a joint front to compete in October between Sadir from Jujuy, Torres from Chubut, Vidal from Santa Cruz, Maximiliano Pullaro from Santa Fe, and Martín Llaryora from Córdoba is terrible news for the government in this regard.

The " Peronists with wigs ," as some ironically call Osvaldo Jaldo from Tucumán, Sáenz from Salta, Jalil, and the Radical Party member Sadir, continue to demand protection of their regional economies and recalled the "grain of sand"—or "areno"—with which they supported key laws pushed through by the government. They are currently exploring an agreement with the PJ (Party of the People's Party).

Cornejo has already reached an electoral agreement with LLA and is aligned, as is his fellow party member Zdero . Frigerio is preparing to do the same in his province. All of them collaborated with the abstentions of their legislators in the Senate. The Misiones party members who answer to Carlos Rovira went further and voted against the increases.

The Rosada (Catholic Governor's Office) didn't rule out the possibility that some pro-conciliation governors would have their representatives reconsider their views, from Santa Fe's Pullaro —who welcomed the reduction in withholding taxes and now has his own party—to San Juan's Marcelo Orrego, who has excellent ties to the Rosada (Catholic Governor's Office). They expected less from Córdoba, after Llaryora announced a substantial increase in provincial pensions this week.

More clear help could come from legislators seeking reappointment but who don't yet have a seat secured. They have until the 17th , when the lists close.

The decision to veto the laws invalidates the President's argument that he suggested resorting to the courts to have the Senate session declared invalid .

This Wednesday afternoon, when Milei approached the gates of the Rosada to greet a group of children, a man asked her not to insult the vice president anymore. "Don't mistreat Villarruel, I voted for her too, " he said. The president, who blamed the vice president for presiding over the session and attacked his running mate at La Rural , ignored him.