With 129 deputies present, the special session began in the Lower House, whose sole topic this Wednesday is the treatment of the modification of the Glacier Law. The initiative of the national Executive, promoted by mining governors, has the sanction of the Senate and the ruling party estimates that it will become law overnight.
At the beginning of the meeting, which is estimated to last about 11 hours, opposition deputies made different requests for separation to discuss projects against different measures of the national Executive. However, as the internal regulations of the Chamber establish that this motion of order – which allows topics not included in the session’s agenda to be discussed – requires an aggravated majority of three-quarters of the votes of those present for its approval, none of the proposals managed to get the green light because they did not reach 180 votes.
In this context, the president of the union for the homeland bloc German Martinez He clarified: “If we are doing this it is because we are trying to generate the opening of commissions to deal with these issues.”
The first proposal was formulated by the Left Front deputy, Romina del Plawho requested that this be an initiative in repudiation of the national government’s decision to remove the accreditation at Casa Rosada from journalists and media outlets.
“We are facing a very serious fact that attacks freedom of the press and the people’s right to information,” he said. However, The vote had 122 positive votes, 113 negative votes and one abstention by the deputy of Santa Cruz José Garrido.
In the same vein, the deputy of Unión por la Patria, Lorena Pokoikrequested the incorporation of a file that repudiates the suspension of the accreditations of the media Ámbito Financiero, Tiempo Argentino, América 14, La Patriada, El Destape, among others. The Buenos Aires legislator described the measure as “harming the republican principle of publicizing government acts, the right to freedom of the press and the restriction of access to public information.”
At that point, he demanded that the measure be reversed immediately. “We cannot naturalize a decision that restricts journalists’ access and weakens democratic control. It is a censorship mechanism. If power decides who can ask questions, it stops being accountable,” he said. The vote had 125 positive votes, 115 negative votes and one abstention.
The war in the Middle East and the $Libra case
Another request for separation was requested by the deputy of Unión por la Patria, Eduardo Valdeswho referred to Argentina’s position in the Middle East conflict and in that context asked to discuss two projects that reaffirm a clear position in favor of peace and against any involvement in international war conflicts: “Peace, peace and peace. That is what has to be heard in this room. It is the feeling of the streets of Argentina,” he expressed.
During his speech, Valdés questioned the recent statements of the Executive Branch in relation to the international scenario: “The president said ‘we are going to win the war’. I ask him: what war?” he asked. And he also pointed out against Foreign Minister Quirno: “He said that the attacks on the Israeli Embassy and the AMIA were because we were not aligned. I inform you that these attacks occurred in the context in which Argentina became involved in the Gulf War.”
Valdés also provided a personal testimony to gauge the seriousness of the issue: “I have family who died in the attack on the Israeli Embassy. My aunt and her brother died because they lived in the adjacent building. From here I ask: why do we have to get involved in a war that is not ours?”, he noted.
The vote had the abstention of the four deputies of the Left Front who expressed their support for the people of Iran, asking the United States and Israel to stop the bombing. The result was 121 positive votes and 117 negative votes..
From the Civic Coalition, Maximiliano Ferrarorequested a departure from the regulations so that the Chamber of Deputies today considers on tables 3 files linked to the $LIBRA case. Two of them to summon the Secretary General of the presidency of the nation, Karina Milei, and the Chief of Staff of the Nation Manuel Adorni, so that they provide verbal and written reports on the premises about their participation and knowledge regarding the events linked to LIBRA. And another file, for President Javier Milei to respond to the telephone calls and messaging, with Mr. Mauricio Novelli, payments received or alleged payments received by Mr. Mauricio Novelli, among other points of the request for reports. The vote had 125 positive votes compared to 116 negative votes.
In this regard, Ferraro stated: “there were 125 affirmative votes, adding some absences of the day and other deputies already committed, in the coming weeks we will have the number to appoint the commissions and approve the requests for reports and interpellation.”
“It is often difficult for Comodoro Py to investigate power when he is in power, and the cover-up by prosecutor Taiano in relation to what happened with the Libra scam is more than evident, where the presidential investiture has been misappropriated. There is more than evident evidence, a year and more than 3 months have passed, and not a single summons has been made to give a statement, not even a testimonial, not even an investigation of characters like Novelli, Morales or Terrones Godoy (…) and that, until now, if the president had nothing to do with it, he did not make a single complaint regarding these characters,” he said.
On the other hand, from the United Provinces, Pablo Juliano, He asked to summon the commissions to deal with requests for reports on the wealth growth of the Chief of Staff and his high standard of living with public money. The result of the vote was 121 votes in favor and 112 against.
“Liberty A and many blocks that later cry for the Clean File law protected him. They are the same ones that prevent Congress from fulfilling its role as controller to deal with the $Libra crypto scam. Republicans and selective democrats,” said Juliano.
