03/01/2020 - 16:03
- Clarín.com
- Politics
The son of the President, Estanislao Fernández, former presidents Eduardo Duhalde and Mauricio Macri and the three judges of the Supreme Court Ricardo Lorenzetti, Juan Carlos Maqueda and Horacio Rosatti were the most notorious absences in the opening of ordinary sessions that Alberto Fernández left inaugurated this Sunday at the National Congress.
Estanislao, the son of President Fernández, who was in the assumption of his father, was not this time of the game in Congress. His place on the premises was taken by Juan Pablo Biondi , presidential spokesman.
Macri's failure came with warning: he was traveling to a summit of about thirty former Latin American presidents that will take place in Guatemala and that is why he did not attend Congress.
The President along with his son, Estanislao, in the office of Casa Rosada on the day of the assumption. He was not in Congress.
The former president will speak on Tuesday, March 3 at the meeting of the Freedom and Development Foundation which also involves George W. Bush, Mexican Felipe Calderón and Spanish José María Aznar , among others.
For its part, Duhalde's absence was due to the fact that he is touring Europe , more precisely in Spain and France: he traveled to internalize about the operation of bulk sale in those countries since a few weeks ago he presented a plan on that Issue to government.
Judges Lorenzetti and Maqueda anticipated that they would not go to Congress this Sunday. The former president of the Supreme Court has had health problems since returning from a trip to Hawaii , where he spoke on Environmental Law. The feverish picture suffered by the magistrate even forced him to remain in the Diagnostic Institute. Now, he rests in his house in Rafaela.
According to official sources, Maqueda is on vacation . Is that the judge had to be in his office during the judicial fair. While the reasons for Rosatti's absence did not transcend.
The judges of Carlos Rosenkrantz and Elena Highton de Nolasco, the only representatives of the Court in Congress. (Emanuel Fernández)
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship, Felipe Solá, was also not at the opening of the ordinary sessions since he was sent to the assumption of the Uruguayan elected president, Luis Lacalle Pou.
Another failure was that of the president of the Justicialist Party, the national deputy José Luis Gioja, who suffers a flu state that forced him to remain at rest in his province, San Juan.
Many spoke of the absence of Elisa Carrió, one of the founders of Cambiemos and leader of the Civic Coalition, although, unless someone invited her, she didn't have to be in Congress: on Sunday her resignation from her bank was formalized as national deputy, after 25 years in office.
Except for the president of the Civic Coalition, Maxi Ferraro, and Juan Manuel López , neither was the rest of the members of the block, which has 14 deputies, protesting the controversial participation of Daniel Scioli during the session in which the modification of special retirement regimes of judges and diplomats.
