The Government will send the abortion law to Congress for consideration in the summer

11/10/2020 10:44

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Updated 11/10/2020 10:44

The government

to be dealt with in the extraordinary session that will last until February.

The announcement was made by the Legal and Technical Secretary of the Presidency, Vilma Ibarra, one of the main promoters of the law within the Casa Rosada.

"During the electoral campaign, the president assumed the commitment to send the abortion bill to Congress, a decision that he ratified in the Legislative Assembly on March 1 and that each time he was consulted he ratified his willingness to do so. The President ratified his commitment and he will fulfill it. I want to communicate that it

and it will be incorporated into the agenda of extraordinary sessions, "said Ibarra in an interview in channel C5N on Monday night.

This Tuesday, Ibarra spoke again about that announcement.

The sending of the project, as expected, will modify the agenda of the public discussion, today crossed by the health and economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic.

A government minister confirmed that the bill "will be sent to Congress this year," but

.

President Alberto Fernández will ask legislators to extend the period of ordinary sessions until the end of December and then he will call extraordinary sessions in January and February.

In addition to abortion, in that period the Executive Branch could send a battery of issues for Congress to deal with, ranging from tax reform and extraordinary wealth tax to the possibility of

and judicial reform.

Last month, the President discussed the abortion project with the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Sergio Massa.

In that conversation, Massa told Fernández that the abortion bill has

, with which it would be approved.

It is not yet clear

, the chamber that buried the treatment of the legalization of abortion in August 2018, which had already been approved in Congress in the same year after a long and intense debate.