Tag: Argentine Senate

• 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.

• Friday, April 9th 2021 - 10:56 UTC

  Argentine Senate passes Income Tax reform with all votes but one

  

  Argentina's Upper House Thursday passed by 66 votes in favour and one abstention the tax reforms proposed by the government of President Alberto Fernández, which would rid workers with a monthly gross income of 150,000 pesos (around 1,100 US dollars at the unofficial exchange rate) of paying the income tax.

• Wednesday, December 30th 2020 - 09:10 UTC

  Argentina approves bill to legalize the voluntary interruption of pregnancy

  

  Argentina's Senate voted to legalize elective abortion early Wednesday, marking a historic political shift in the heavily Catholic country and larger region.

• Monday, December 28th 2020 - 09:15 UTC

  Argentine Senate debates abortion bill on Tuesday; tight vote but with good chances of passing

  

  The Argentine Senate will on Tuesday debate a Bill that, if it passes into law, would make the country by far the largest in Latin America to legalize abortion. The proposed legislation would allow women to terminate pregnancies up until the 14th week. Currently, abortion is allowed only in cases of rape and when there is a threat to the life of the mother.

• Thursday, February 6th 2020 - 09:10 UTC

  Argentine Senate grants full power to the Fernandez administration to restructure foreign debt

  

  Argentina’s Senate voted in favor of a bill on Wednesday that grants power to the government of President Alberto Fernandez to handle a massive debt restructuring of bonds issued in foreign currency.

• Wednesday, June 12th 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Macri stuns Argentina and markets with his vice presidential candidate, a respected leader of the opposition in Congress

  

  President Mauricio Macri stunned Argentines and markets on Tuesday by naming the head of the congressional opposition as his vice-presidential candidate in October's general election. Miguel Angel Pichetto, a 68-year-old lawyer and Senator from the province of Rio Negro has been a loyal and pragmatic member of the Peronist movement since he started in politics in the early eighties.

• Wednesday, June 12th 2019 - 09:57 UTC

  Pichetto pledges a “democratic, capitalist, intelligent, productive” Argentina

  

  Miguel Angel Pichetto was born in Buenos Aires and moved to the Patagonian province of Río Negro early in his career. He was first elected in 1983 as a Councilor of Sierra Grande, then mayor (85/87) and later a provincial lawmaker.

• Wednesday, November 21st 2018 - 08:40 UTC

  Government fails to strip Cristina Fernandez of her parliamentary immunity

  

  Argentina ex-president and Senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will retain her parliamentary immunity for the rest of the year following the ruling coalition's Senate block failed attempt on Tuesday afternoon to address the issue.

• Friday, August 24th 2018 - 09:04 UTC

  Corruption scandal: Police searched homes of ex Argentine president Cristina Fernandez

  

  Police accompanied by sniffer dogs searched the homes of Argentina's former president Cristina Kirchner on Thursday as the investigation intensified into the so-called “notebooks” corruption scandal that has rocked the country.

• Thursday, August 23rd 2018 - 09:13 UTC

  Argentine Senate unanimously approves raids on properties from ex president Cristina Fernandez

  

  Argentina's Senators have approved a judge's request for authorities to carry out raids on properties owned by former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, as part of a case investigating widespread corruption. Cristina Fernandez is currently a senator and was one of the 67 lawmakers who voted unanimously in favor of the motion.