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Montevideo, March 28th 2025 - 09:39 UTC

Tag: Argentine Senate

  • Friday, February 21st 2025 - 09:38 UTC

    Argentine Senate okays no PASO elections and in absentia trials

    Both bills are now up to the Executive to be signed into law

    Argentina's Senate Thursday passed a bill suspending the Primary, Open, Simultaneous, and Mandatory (PASO) elections for 2025 with 43 affirmative votes, 20 against, and six abstentions. The initiative simplifies the electoral process and leaves it up to each political force to appoint its candidates in the manner they see fit. In addition, the Upper House approved the Trial in Absentia bill, which among other things would allow the Iranians accused of the 1994 AMIA bombing to be tried. Thursday's session also highlighted internal parliamentary divisions among the various legislative blocs.

  • Friday, December 13th 2024 - 10:31 UTC

    Argentina: Senator Kueider under arrest in Paraguay expelled from Parliament

    Kueider said that his expulsion violated basic “constitutional principles such as the constitutional right to legitimate defense”

    Argentina's Senate voted overwhelmingly Thursday to expel the Peronist Edgardo Kueider from Entre Ríos, who was arrested in Paraguay with US$ 200,000 of undeclared money in addition to pesos and guaranis. Giving Kueider the thumbs down were the opposition Unión por la Patria (Peronism), the Radical Civic Union (UCR), the ruling La Libertad Avanza (LLA) of President Javier Milei, and part of former President Mauricio Macri's Propuesta Republicana (PRO).

  • Friday, April 19th 2024 - 10:46 UTC

    Argentine Senate passes scandalous wage hike

    “I am not a Senator and can do nothing to stop it,” Vice President Villarruel argued

    Argentina's Senate Thursday agreed on a substantial wage increase for the Upper House which stirred controversies as the country grapples to make ends meet. The decision was reached after zero debate and Senators were also asked to raise their hands if they validated the motion. Many then insisted on social media that they were not among the ones approving the scandalous hike.

  • Friday, March 15th 2024 - 09:43 UTC

    Argentina: Senate gives thumbs down to Milei's DNU

    “I am not going to become Cristina Fernández de Kirchner,” Villarruel said

    Argentina's Senate Thursday voted by 42 to 25 and 4 abstentions against President Javier Milei's most-encompassing emergency Decree (DNU) 70/23 which will nonetheless remain in force pending next week's outcome at the Lower House. A positive result would keep the measure alive barring any declaration of unconstitutionality by the courts.

  • Thursday, February 23rd 2023 - 10:53 UTC

    Argentina: Ruling bloc in the Senate breaks up and a new bench emerges

    The ruling party will have even more difficulties to achieve, with allies, the quorum of 37 seats necessary to enable a session in the Upper House. ”

    A group of Argentine senators announced on Wednesday their withdrawal from the bloc of the ruling Frente de Todos in the Upper House and their decision to form their own bench, in the run-up to the complex electoral process that the South American country will undergo this year.

  • Friday, July 1st 2022 - 09:58 UTC

    Argentine Senate passes new law on HIV and other diseases

    It consists of a change of perspective from the old HIV law passed in 1991

    Argentina's Senate Thursday passed a bill whereby the State would take a new approach to health conditions such as HIV, Viral Hepatitis, Tuberculosis, and Sexually Transmitted Infections.

  • Tuesday, March 29th 2022 - 09:24 UTC

    Argentine Senators launch bid to tax assets abroad and pay off the IMF

    Those who do not comply with the payment of this contribution might risk going to prison

    Argentina's ruling Frente de Todos (FdT) lawmakers Monday suggested a new tax on assets and money not declared to the local Treasury and kept abroad be levied in order to pay the country's debt with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

  • Friday, December 10th 2021 - 09:11 UTC

    Argentine Senator resigns as ALS takes its toll on his health

    Bullrich launched an appeal to build bridges in his farewell speech

    Esteban Bullrich, former Argentine Education Minister under President Mauricio Macri Thursday resigned his seat on the Senate due to his deteriorating health in an announcement that touched political friends and foes alike.

  • Thursday, October 7th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

    Argentine Senate unanimously rejects Chile's decree regarding continental shelf

    “We cannot disregard the context in which Chile's claim is made: on November 21 there will be presidential elections,” Cobos warned.

    Argentina's Senate Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution declaring Chile's announcements concerning the continental shelf as in clear violation of the Peace and Friendship Treaty signed in 1984.

  • Saturday, June 26th 2021 - 03:14 UTC

    Argentine Senate passes trans workers quota bill

    After passing the bill, lawmakers of the ruling FdT met privately with Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

    Argentina's Senate has passed a bill mandating a quota of transvestite and transgendered workers be hired by all government agencies and now it is up to the Executive to pass it into law.

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