“Many urgent measures need to be taken that cannot wait for the normal processing of laws”

Rodolfo Barra, Attorney for the Treasury of the Nation whose function is to officiate State Attorneycame out in defense of Decree of Necessity and Urgency (DNU) signed by Javier Milei last Wednesday when maintaining that the country is already going through a “hyperinflation” and what needs to be taken “urgent measures that cannot wait for the normal processing of laws”

Barra was interviewed by the program Just one more turn that is broadcast on AllNews prior to sending the DNU to Congress. Asked why the Government decided to use this tool to try to apply a package of economic laws, Barra stated: “We are already in hyperinflation.”

“The explanation that the President has given is very clear about the situation in the country, especially for lower-income people, who are below the poverty line,” the official justified regarding why it was decided to move forward via a DNU and not through bills with their corresponding regular treatment in Congress.

Throughout the entire interview Barra insisted that using a DNU It was justified in the economic situation that Argentina is currently experiencing. It was even shown surprised by the questionsboth from the Frente de Todos sector and from the UCR and the Civic Coalition.

“Try to justify that we are in an emergency situation “It’s something that seems banal, I can’t believe we’re discussing this,” I propose. In this regard, he considered that “to face this emergency situation of terrible gravity, many urgent measures need to be taken that cannot wait for the normal processing of the laws.”

In the same sense, the Attorney General of the National Treasury stated: “we are discussing the sex of angels when people are starving. “They have left us a monstrous inheritance.”

The Milei official maintained, meanwhile, that if the DNU is challenged due to “the issue of necessity and urgency,” it would be something that “does not make sense because it’s stupid”.

Barra also explained that choosing to send the reforms to Congress through a traditional bill would stretch the timeline. “A bill that is focused on the DNU, I believe that could not take less than a year of treatment in Congress,” he exemplified.

He also referred to the proposal put forward by the Radical Civic Union.

Through a statement and hours after the DNU was announced, the centenary party that the senator has presided over for a few days Martin Lousteau He did not rule out the possibility of moving forward with the reforms under this method, although he proposed that it could also be done by sending a draft of the bill to Parliament. ‘mirror law’ with the same content, with the difference that the path to its approval would require a different treatment and would not imply its entry into force immediately.

“They don’t need that. If they are so convinced that this should be done, now on March 1 They can present a bill themselves, they do not need the Executive to send it“, Barra suggested almost mischievously while suggesting that he could also “ratify the DNU.” It’s easier”.

Finally, the Milei official analyzed that in his opinion “there is a desperate intention to put obstacles in the way of the Government” and recalled that if someone “feels aggravated by a particular rule of the decree, obviously theyor you can challenge in court and there it will be resolved whether such article affects such right of the worker, of the trade associations or of such a particular person.”