Martín Menem crossed the UCR: “They have been a long time without opening their mouths”

In response to the request of deputies of the Radical Civic Union (UCR), a party chaired by Martin Lousteau, for the urgent formation of a bicameral commission for the discussion of the Decree of Necessity and Urgency (DNU), the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Martin Menem, responded in recent statements in a forceful way. While the DNU waits for the formation of the commission to be dealt with by the leaders elected by each party, the UCR describes the delay as “a new institutional degradation.” Menem responded in a radio interview on Tuesday. The president of the Chamber of Deputies responded to the aforementioned comments by arguing that some signatories of the note “have no interference or relevance,” and cited the case of Loustaeu, national senator and president of the National Committee. It catches my attention… So much so that there is talk of the bicameral and they have been a long time without opening their mouths. Alberto Fernández’s decrees have not passed through there. The commission was not functioning for a long time,” he said. When they don’t see it, they don’t see it. Argentina embarked on a course and voted for a president to do what he is doing, he proposed it through an important bill,” he remarked at the time. In this sense, Menem said that “this way of obstructing poses a divorce between a sector of politics and what the people voted for.” The note that questioned the delay in the formation of the commission was signed by the vice presidents of the space, Inés Brizuela y Doria and Luis Naidenoff; the heads of the benches of deputies and senators, Rodrigo De Loredo and Eduardo Vischi and the vice-presidents of the blocs of deputies and senators, Karina Banfi and Pablo Blanco. “If the previous government took advantage of its majority to block the functioning of the Commission for two years, today we are witnessing a new institutional degradation in which this government does not even constitute it,” he said. 

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