02/14/2021 20:01
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 02/14/2021 20:04
The remains of former President Carlos Menem, who died this Sunday at the age of 90, reached the National Congress where in minutes they will be veiled.
The burning chapel will be set up
in the Blue Hall of the Senate
and the public will be able to enter after 8 pm through the Palace esplanade on Rivadavia and Entre Ríos avenues, where a few hundred people wait with their umbrellas to enter the place.
"Let's hope they let us in so we can say goodbye to the best president since Julio Argentino Roca," said one of the first people in line, wearing a light blue pilot.
Behind him, another man pointed out: "Carlos was the greatest thing there was for me. When with (Raúl) Alfonsín I was left without a home, I was left without appliances due to hyperinflation, then Carlitos came and with him I recovered everything."
Details are being finalized for the wake of former president Carlos Menem, who will be held at the Blue Room of the Senate of the Nation from 8:00 p.m.
Photo Télam.
At the request of the family, the funeral will be freely accessible to the general public, but will be closed to the press.
It will be broadcast on Senado TV and the Cámara Alta YouTube channel.
It is scheduled that tomorrow, Monday at noon, the doors of the Hall will be closed so that the family can privately dismiss the remains of the former head of state.
Meanwhile, from the door of the Los Arcos sanatorium, where the senator died, Zulemita Menem confirmed that the remains of the former president will be buried together with those of his son in the Islamic cemetery of La Tablada.
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