Tag: Argentine Congress

• Saturday, October 22nd 2022 - 10:04 UTC

  Argentina's Supreme Court against paying income tax

  

  Argentina's Supreme Court is under alert after the 2023 Budget Bill sent to Congress includes a provision whereby Judiciary magistrates and clerks would pay income taxes, from which they are exempted on arguable Constitutional grounds.

• Thursday, March 17th 2022 - 09:58 UTC

  Opposition deputy wants Ukraine's President to speak before Argentine Congress

  

  Argentine opposition Congressman Mario Negri wants Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski to deliver a message to Parliament as he did before western powers legislatures.

• Saturday, March 12th 2022 - 09:51 UTC

  Demonstrators attack Argentine Congress building during IMF deal debate

  

  While Argentina's Lower House was debating the approval of the refinancing agreement with the International Monetary Fund, demonstrators staged several incidents in and around the Congress building in Buenos Aires.

• Friday, March 11th 2022 - 21:46 UTC

  Argentine Lower House passes IMF deal

  

  Argentina's House of Deputies greenlighted the deal reached between the administration of President Alberto Fernández and the International Monetary Fund in the wee hours of Friday by 202 votes in favor, 37 against, and 13 abstentions.

• Monday, March 7th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Controversy over empty bench in Argentine Congress representing Malvinas

  

  A “nutty” initiative, Tierra del Fuego governor Gustavo Melella described the proposal by several Argentine lawmakers to create in Congress a Malvinas Islands bench, which would remain empty covered with an Argentine flag until the legitimate occupier arrives, a symbolic sovereignty claim over the Islands 'usurped' by Great Britain.

• Saturday, November 27th 2021 - 09:32 UTC

  Case of Argentine Ambassador in Bolivia to be brought before Congress in BA

  

  Argentine opposition lawmakers have announced they would ask President Alberto Fernández to sack Adrián Basteiro as Ambassador to Bolivia after the diplomat was found engaging in domestic political acts in violation of international conventions regarding Consular representations.

• Friday, November 19th 2021 - 09:44 UTC

  Argentina's ruling party retains Lower House majority

  

  Argentina's ruling coalition Everybody's Front (Frente de Todos - FdT) finally retained a majority within the Lower House after vote-counting in the province of La Rioja granted it the two seats still in doubt.

• Thursday, November 18th 2021 - 09:04 UTC

  Argentine President diagnosed with brain disorder by Deputy-elect

  

  Neurologist Facundo Manes, who has just been voted into Argentina's Lower House on behalf of the opposition Together for a Change (JxC - Juntos por el Cambio) coalition, has said President Alberto Fernández had a cognitive deficiency known as “anosognosia.”

• Tuesday, October 26th 2021 - 18:17 UTC

  Rural workers stage protest before Argentine Congress in support of Access to Land bill

  

  Argentina's Union of Land Workers (UTT) Monday camped in front of the Congress building in Buenos Aires in support of the Access to Land bill. The UTT, which claims to represent rural workers nationwide, who make up for 8 % of the national workforce, planned to stay mobilized for 4 days in a row.

• Tuesday, September 21st 2021 - 09:10 UTC

  Argentine farmers stage protests and activities in front of Congress

  

  Argentina's Union of Land Workers (UTT) Monday began a 48-hour protest in front of the National Congress building demanding lawmakers pass the Access to Land bill.