Tag: Argentine Congress

• Friday, May 4th 2012 - 06:01 UTC

  Euphoric Argentine lawmakers celebrate final approval of YPF seizure

  

  After a two-day session, Argentina’s Lower House voted late Thursday night 207-32 in favour of expropriating energy corporation YPF, clearing the way for President Cristina Fernandez to sign the controversial bill into law.

• Thursday, March 1st 2012 - 22:38 UTC

  Argentina wants to review 1999 accord with Aerolineas direct flights Buenos Aires/Falklands

  

  President Cristina Fernandez said Argentina will seek to re-negotiate the 1999 accord with the UK which allows for a weekly flight connecting the Falklands Islands and Chile, and replace it with three schedules a week but from Buenos Aires and in the country’s flag carrier, Aerolineas Argentinas.

• Tuesday, February 21st 2012 - 04:03 UTC

  Argentine opposition demand open debate on Malvinas, not the “official speech”

  

  Argentine members of the opposition have warned that they will not attend a Friday special session of the Senate and Lower House Foreign Affairs committees to be held in Tierra del Fuego and dedicated to the Malvinas issue unless the overall position of the diplomatic conflict is openly debated.

• Monday, February 13th 2012 - 05:48 UTC

  Argentine congress will discuss Malvinas issue in special session in Tierra del Fuego

  

  The Argentine congress will be holding an extraordinary session next 24 February in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego to debate on the Falklands/Malvinas conflict. Under the 1994 Argentine constitution, the Falklands come under the jurisdiction of the province of Tierra del Fuego.

• Tuesday, November 15th 2011 - 06:27 UTC

  Argentine congress October ‘inflation index’: 1.49%, double the official rate

  

  Argentine lawmakers announced Monday the so-called Congressional ‘inflation index” for October which they estimated at 1.49% and is well over double the official Indec index released last week, 0.6%.

• Tuesday, October 25th 2011 - 03:29 UTC

  CFK recovers control over both houses and with sufficient seats for quorum

  

  The Sunday landslide victory of President Cristina Fernandez means the coalition she leads has regained control of both houses of Congress (lost in the 2009 debacle) and with a sufficient majority to work with its own quorum.

• Saturday, October 8th 2011 - 08:23 UTC

  Argentine proposal to issue coins commemorative of the Fakland/Malvinas War 30 anniversary

  

  The Argentine Congress Foreign Affairs Commission supported a motion from a Tierra del Fuego Deputy for a special coins issue commemorative of the thirtieth anniversary of the (1982) Argentine Islas Malvinas epic geste.

• Wednesday, March 2nd 2011 - 00:41 UTC

  CFK underlines Argentine economic and political progress, but no word on re-election

  

  Addressing Congress on Tuesday Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, CFK, underlined the economic and political development brought on by her administration saying that they helped all Argentine citizens to lead a better quality of life.