Senate: Opposition plans to call for April 13 session after Thursday’s scandal

After the scandal that ended with the departure of the opposition from the Chamber of Senators and leaving the session without a quorum, parliamentary sources said that in the coming days an agreement could be made between Together for Change and Federal Unity in order to request a new session for April 13 to deal with the “Lucio law” and judicial specifications of Santa Fe and Córdoba. It fell after the ruling party tried to impose the agenda and order of the treatment of the bills. But the Federal Unity bloc had anticipated a request for a special session, which was imitated by Together for Change with an almost identical agenda. However, reluctant to lose the initiative, the ruling party convened its own session, which incorporated the Zero Alcohol at the Wheel project, and the Presidency of the Upper House, instead of including the three requests for separate sessions, included the three in the same call that dictated by resolution. Then, the opposition tried to modify that agenda but from the Frente de Todos they replied that if they wanted to alter the agenda they should proceed with two-thirds of the votes. This argument was objected to by the opposition, to the point that its legislators were
They rose from their benches and left the session without a quorum, which ended up falling. The pro-government senators stayed in the chamber to make minority expressions and pointed against their opposition peers for having left pending an important agenda of projects such as the “Lucio Law” and the “Zero Alcohol”, from the box of the Upper House, the grandparents of Lucio Dupuy, the five-year-old boy brutally murdered by his mother in La Pampa. And also relatives of victims of road accidents pointed against legislators for leaving projects of great importance untreated.” Lucio was killed again,” said Ramón Dupuy, grandfather of the minor killed in La Pampa, in dialogue with Radio La Red. And then, he lamented: “We saw an embarrassing spectacle and unfortunately the law was not approved, we did not find an explanation.” The agenda that would be agreed between Federal Unit and Together for Change would include the “Lucio Law” and the treatment of judicial documents of Santa Fe and Córdoba, among other initiatives. If this situation is consummated, the opposition may impose its majority to enable the quorum and thus submit to the ruling party regarding the agenda of the session. Although it is not ruled out that a scenario like that of the last session that ended in the worst way may be repeated. Federal Unity is made up of the Peronists who separated from the ruling party: Guillermo Snopeck (Jujuy), Eduardo Kuider (Entre Ríos), Carlos Espínola (Corrientes), María Eugenia Catalfano (San Luis), and Alejandra Vigo (Córdoba), wife of Governor Juan Schiaretti.The president of the interbloc of the Frente de Todos, José Mayans said that in the electoral period “everyone wants to make their top dance.” maintaining that “this new bloc responds to the interests of the governors of Córdoba, Santa Fe and Entre Ríos who intend to lower agricultural withholdings and other taxes.” We agree that all taxes must be lowered, but let them say how we are going to cover all the expenses that the country has and that a large part of that spending is taken by those three provinces,” Mayans said.

Original source in Spanish