Agriculture in parliament with more shadows than lights

Throughout the year, a significant level of projects submitted, discussions held, and sessions convened was recorded. However, the ability to convert this activity into operational laws was limited. Only a dozen initiatives were converted, that is, less than 0.5% of the proposed bills submitted, as expressed by "Barbechando," an organization that emerged in 2008 in the context of Resolution 125, when "a group of producers, defenders of republican values, began walking the corridors of Congress to explain and clarify the characteristics of the productive interior, to move from complaint to proposal," according to their website. The structural data: 70% of the agenda was driven by the opposition, while the ruling party oriented its strategy to contain and halt initiatives that, in their view, compromised fiscal balance, establishing itself as the true parliamentary resistance. The dispute over fiscal sustainability was expressed in several milestones: Pension moratorium and ...