Tag: Martín Menem

• Tuesday, August 27th 2024 - 09:51 UTC

  Argentina: Breakup among Libertarian lawmakers imminent

  

  Libertarian Congresswoman Lourdes Arrieta, who gained notoriety for claiming she did not know who the people she visited with a group of fellow lawmakers at the Ezeiza penitentiary because she had been born in 1993, keeps undermining whichever unity President Javier Milei's Parliamentarians might have left by denouncing House Speaker Martín Menem for allegedly labeling the female deputies of his bloc as ”whores.

• Monday, March 11th 2024 - 11:32 UTC

  Milei caught red-handed “increasing” his own salary by 48%

  

  Just a few days after ordering Lower House Speaker Martín Menem to reverse his decision together with Vice President Victoria Villarruel to increase the wages of lawmakers by around 30%, Argentine President Javier Milei was forced to announce that he would do the same regarding a pay hike of around 48% he had decreed for himself and the members of his cabinet, it was reported in Buenos Aires during the weekend.

• Friday, March 8th 2024 - 10:54 UTC

  Argentina: Libertarian gov't wants wage hike for lawmakers reversed

  

  Argentina's Lower House Speaker Martin Menem admitted Thursday that a bill was to be submitted to backtrack on the resolution granting wage increases of nearly 30% to lawmakers amid strict austerity measures affecting most of the country's population, particularly the more vulnerable.

• Thursday, March 7th 2024 - 10:17 UTC

  Argentine lawmakers from the “political caste” get wage increase

  

  Argentine Vice President Victoria Villarruel as head of the Senate and Lower House Speaker Martín Menem agreed to increase the wages of lawmakers by nearly 30% effective from January 1, it was reported Wednesday in Buenos Aires.

• Friday, December 8th 2023 - 08:56 UTC

  Martín Menem appointed Speaker of Argentina's Lower House

  

  Newly-elected Congressman Martín Menem of La Rioja of President-elect Javier Milei's La Libertad Avanza has been appointed as the new Speaker of Argentina's Lower House to succeed Cecilia Moreau, the first woman ever to serve on the post.

• Monday, May 8th 2023 - 11:16 UTC

  Ruling parties are reelected in 3 Argentine provinces

  

  Three Argentine provinces held gubernatorial elections on Sunday. In all of them, the ruling parties were reelected. In a year with presidential elections looming, these results were expected to shed some light on who might make it to the Casa Rosada next December 10, but nothing of the sort happened.