The plenary of the commissions on Natural Resources and Conservation of the Human Environment; Agriculture and Livestock; and Budget and Finance of the Chamber of Deputies met this Thursday to finalize the discussion about the Wetlands bills, with two opinions, one of majority with 57 signatures of Together for Change and another of minority of the ruling party with 46 signatures, the projects were ready to be discussed in the enclosure. In the vicinity of the Congress, waiting for the plenary of the commission to rule, social organizations gathered, including the multisectoral wetlands. But as expected, due to the weight of the provincial governors, the ruling party signed divided. Frente de Todos deputies Daniel Brue and Nilda Moyano, from Santiago del Estero; Pamela Calletti, from Salta; Sergio Casas, from La Rioja; Silvana Ginocchio and Anahí Costa, from Catamarca; Maria Parola and Nelly Daldovo, from Formosa; and Liliana Paponet, from Mendoza, did not vote with the rest of the caucus. The same governors had prevented days ago from resuming the plenary of commissions that was more than a month in the intermediate quarter because of the governors’ claim to be heard. However, last week, after having been invited on several occasions and not having sent representatives to explain the position of the provinces, with the exception of Buenos Aires, an attempt was made to resume the plenary, but Together for Change was not present either, arguing that the regulations were being violated because the intermediate quarter was down.” With the signatories of the two opinions we have more than half plus one in the Chamber of Deputies, we only have to resolve the differences, the articles, the ‘finite’. We hope that next week we will discuss the wetlands law to give it half a sanction,” Grosso pressed at the end of the plenary.
The discussion of the wetlands bill was resumed after the recurrent fires in the Paraná Delta. At that time, the issue of wetland protection was again placed on the public agenda and, on September 15, it was approved in session to summon the commissions to move forward with the debate of the different projects. Of the 10 initiatives that were presented, this Thursday two texts arrived to be ruled. On the one hand, the project headed by Leonardo Grosso, president of the Natural Resources Commission, has the support of environmental organizations and is similar to the one that obtained an opinion last year, but finally did not advance. Meanwhile, product of a consensus between the projects of Maximiliano Ferraro and Ximena García; Jorge Vara; and Gabriela Lena, Together for Change put on the table a unified text.
