In Salta, the Frente de Todos expelled Ameri and asked him to resign from his seat: a woman would replace him

09/24/2020 - 20:35

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After the scandal generated during the virtual session this Thursday in Congress, the national deputy Juan Ameri was

"immediately and irrevocably," said

, director of the National Communications Agency (ENACOM).

Through his official Twitter account, Quilodrán made clear the position and determination that the political space represented by Ameri took after the action carried out by the Salta deputy, who was captured by his own camera in a sexual scene, during the course of the session.

He also

from office and release the bank he currently occupies.

Ameri took office in December 2019 but has a mandate until 2021, since he did so in replacement of Sergio Leavy, who resigned to be a senator.

"From the Frente de Todos Salta, given the serious misconduct of the National Deputy Juan Ameri during the development of the session of the Honorable Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine Nation today,

and We

"Quilodrán wrote on the social network.

From the Frente de Todos Salta, given the serious misconduct of the National Deputy Juan Ameri during the development of the session of the @DiputadosAR today, we decided to immediately and irrevocably expel the legislator and ask him to resign from the bench pic.twitter.com/RTnzwPtSGA

- Gonzalo Quilodran (@GonzaQuilodran) September 24, 2020

In the event that Deputy Ameri resigned from his post, his seat in Congress would be filled -in principle- by the anthropologist

, who held the position of first alternate on the list of the Citizen Front for the Victory of Salta, for the 2017 elections.

Ameri -which has a mandate until 2021- could be replaced by a woman since both were elected before the

came into force

which requires that a national legislator who leaves his seat be succeeded by the next of the same gender in the ballot.

Unlike Ameri,

Figueroa comes from the academic world.

Born in Orán, she is an anthropologist, specialist and magister in Social Policies and Sustainable Human Development, a member of the Rural Extension Agency of the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) and coordinator of the Pro-Huerta program in the province of Salta, and is a member of the Commission of Detained-Disappeared Relatives of Oran.

Committed to the cause of the original peoples of the Argentine Northwest, last February Figueroa was one of the signatories of an open letter to the Minister of Social Development of the Nation,

representing the Rural and Indigenous Movement Salta.

In this letter they ask the ministry for "an urgent, orderly and participatory policy" in relation to the problem of deaths due to malnutrition in the Wichis communities.

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