How Juan Ameri became a national deputy

09/25/2020 - 10:32

• Clarín.com

• Politics

The departure of

from the Chamber of Deputies of the Nation - he resigned after being filmed kissing his partner's breast in the middle of a remote session - is one of the most unusual in memory.

is also rare.

In the 2017 elections,

of the Kirchnerist Frente Ciudadano de la Victoria.

In front of him were his political boss,

and Nora Giménez.

Kirchnerism fared badly in that election, and then the only one who got his seat was Leavy, a former mayor of Tartagal.

In 2019, Leavy - who still had a mandate as a deputy - and Giménez ran as

.

This time, Kirchnerism won in Salta, and that is why the two entered the Senate on behalf of that province.

Thus, as Leavy resigned from her deputy seat to be a senator and as Giménez

because she had also been elected senator, Ameri came to take over as a deputy in their replacement.

He had never held elective positions, but had been hired in 2013 by the government of Juan Manuel Urtubey

Now, with his resignation, he will have to assume with a mandate until 2021 who was as the first substitute in that 2017 list:

.

"I am going to put on the legislative agenda how the pandemic affects the departments in the north of the province. I am going to bring to Buenos Aires the voices of the inhabitants of Orán, San Martín and Rivadavia, so that it is known how it affects us and in what way It is the best way to take urgent measures against COVID-19, in a territory that was historically affected, "Figueroa told the newspaper El Tribuno this Friday.

Anthropologist and feminist activist, Figueroa was born in Oran and has also long been involved in human rights defense organizations.