Tag: Argentine Senate

• Friday, April 19th 2024 - 10:46 UTC

  Argentine Senate passes scandalous wage hike

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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.

• Thursday, June 3rd 2021 - 08:22 UTC

  Argentine Senate passes bill to postpone primary, mid-term elections

  

  Argentina's Senate Thursday passed the bills submitted by the Government of President Alberto Fernández postponing this year's elections and changing earnings taxation for companies.

• Saturday, May 29th 2021 - 15:52 UTC

  Controversial women's quota bill in fishing vessels passed by Argentine Senate

  

  The Argentine congress gave half sanction to a bill that modifies several articles of the Federal Fisheries Law making it mandatory for the incorporation of 30% of women and 1% of sexual diversity members to the fishing fleet crews.