Victoria Villarruel ordered the evacuation of 12 Senate offices occupied by outgoing legislators

The Argentine Senate has become the scene of tensions and conflicts as a result of a reorganization led by Victoria Villarruel, vice president of the upper house, who, faced with the lack of offices for newly arrived legislators, asked María Laura Izzo, administrative secretary, to evict 12 offices whose occupants did not hand over the corresponding keys. Resolution 1209/23 issued last Friday reveals a renewal in the Upper House, noting that “senators with completed mandates have not duly restored the offices assigned for the exercise of their parliamentary functions before December 10.” However, this measure does not cover all former legislators, some of whom have not yet found a new destination for their offices. In this scenario, they took refuge in the well-known “caves”, especially one on the first floor linked to the Kirchnerist sector, generating tensions in the distribution of spaces. Izzo’s resolution seeks an equitable distribution of offices and offices to optimize physical space in the Senate, but the handing over of keys to incoming legislators by his predecessors has become a point of conflict, even with cases where these have been handed over to third parties personally. The resolution establishes a twenty-four-hour deadline for the delivery of offices and offices, detailing the spaces of the Palace and the Annex that must be vacated. This unusual confrontation over lost offices and keys in the Argentine Senate reflects a complicated transition between legislators, directly impacting the normal development of parliamentary work at a crucial time for the country.

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