12/29/2020 12:23 PM
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Updated 12/29/2020 4:10 PM
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18s ago
16:10
The National Anthem sounds and the Argentine flag is raised in the Senate, starting the historic session.
1m ago
16:08
Cristina Kirchner entered and the session started.
4m ago
16:05
The start of the session is already five minutes late.
The presidency of the body is occupied by Claudia Ledesma Abdala de Zamora, from Santiago del Estero, in the absence of Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
20m ago
15:49
The celestial ones will go to Justice
This was advanced by the senator of the UCR of Tucumán, Silvia Elías de Pérez: "It is unconstitutional, therefore, if this project becomes a law today, it will be a judge of the Nation who ends up solving it," he said.
1h 2m ago
15:07
More than 13 hours of debate
Less than an hour before the start of the debate, the list of speakers was confirmed: there will be 59 exhibitors, although it may vary.
More than 13 hours of debate are expected.
1h 34m ago
14:35
Menem, the great absent
The former president of the Nation, Carlos Menem, was one of the votes of the heavenly side to oppose the legal abortion project.
However, his health prevents him from being in the session.
Until the last moment it was speculated that an improvement could allow him to be in a virtual way, but after being put into an induced coma that possibility was totally ruled out.
There were versions that he could change his vote and support the official project.
But Zulemita Menem, her daughter, made it clear that this scenario was impossible.
Our province #LaRioja defends #ElDerechoALaVida, proud of our Senators 🙌
Clara Vega 🇦🇷 @ CarlosMenem_LR 🇦🇷 @ JulioMartinezLR 🇦🇷 https://t.co/iVg56CxwGX
- zulema menem (@zulemitamenem) December 14, 2020
2h 20m ago
13:50
The suggestive tweet of the Pope
The Son of God was born discarded to tell us that every discarded person is a son of God.
He came into the world as a child comes into the world, weak and fragile, so that we can embrace our frailties with tenderness.
- Pope Francis (@Pontifex_es) December 29, 2020
The full note here.
3h 12m ago
12:57
Lousteau: "There is enormous pressure"
The senator of the Buenos Aires UCR, Martín Lousteau, was confident in the approval of the legal abortion project and said that he expects the debate to be "polite and at the height of the circumstances."
In addition, he denounced pressure.
"There is
enormous pressure
on all of us and particularly on those senators from the provinces with
more conservative
positions
," he said and said he was optimistic "because it is a debate that has already been installed in society and we have to resolve it, I did not see a single speaker of the 59 who came to the Senate who did not say that there are hundreds of thousands of abortions in Argentina ”.
Speaking to radio Miter, he said: "Modern states have resolved this and I hope that we will have a debate at the height of the circumstances so that we can
solve a right that has been claimed for many decades
and that deserves to be definitively validated. ”.
3h 31m ago
12:38
The blue "baby", bloodied
The giant baby of the "Save the two lives" movement, in front of Congress.
Photo Maxi Failla
Symbol of the celestial mobilizations against abortion, the "
baby
" who was already present in the 2018 debate once again says present in front of Congress but with a special addition.
The militants who reject the Government's project, which obtained half a sanction in the Deputies, bloodied the doll.
"Senators stained with the blood of innocents," they
wrote on a poster that accompanies the figure.
3h 41m ago
12:28
The anger of a celestial deputy
Although most of the attention is focused on the Senate, where the abortion legalization project will be debated, Deputies also have an arduous day of discussion on the new pension mobility formula, which the opposition classifies
as an adjustment.
In this context, the antagonism between green and blue also creeps in.
Why?
Because of the color of the protocol bracelets that the deputies received for this in the Palace.
They are the color of those who support the legalization of abortion and that triggered the anger of
Dina Rezinovsky
, a Buenos Aires deputy of the PRO, and one of the standard-bearers of the "Save the two lives" movement.
"Wasn't there another tone in the whole range of bracelet colors for the deputies to use today in the session?
This is a provocation,
" he denounced.
Was there not another tone in the whole range of bracelet colors for the deputies to use today in the session?
This is a provocation 😡 pic.twitter.com/IQgXqskE5l
- Dina Rezinovsky (@dinarezi) December 29, 2020
4h 32m ago
11:37
This is the poroteo hours before the vote
Vote by vote in the Senate, this is how the previous debate on legal abortion palpitates.
See how each senator votes in this interactive infographic.
Why the undecided are key.
The two absences that subtract votes to the celestial side that opposes the project.