Jasmine Bullorini
06/19/2021 9:45 AM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 06/19/2021 9:45 AM
As in every midterm election, the spotlight is on Congress.
The Frente de Todos renews
51 deputies and 15 senators
, while Juntos por el Cambio loses
59 seats in the Lower House and 8 in the Upper House
.
But behind those numbers are some of the
main legislative swords
of the ruling party and the opposition.
The
two women closest to Vice President
Cristina Kirchner end their term: Anabel Fernández Sagasti from Mendoza and María de los Angeles Sacnun from Santa Fe.
The first chairs the Agreement Commission,
which deals with the specifications sent by the Executive and was never called to initiate the process of designating the candidate for attorney for the President, Daniel Rafecas.
Anabel Fernández Sagasti and Cristina Kirchner
Sacnun, for his part, presides over Constitutional Affairs, where key debates such as the
Judicial Reform
and the modification of the Public Prosecutor's Office took place.
Both legislators would seek to renew their place.
The bench of
Carlos Caserio
, the President's confidant,
also expires
.
Although at the beginning he had started the administration with the left foot when he pointed out that in the Senate there would be two pro-government blocs - "one based on Alberto Fernández and the other that responds to Cristina Kirchner," he said -
the unit of the Frente of All
and presides over the commission through which most of the projects pass: Budget.
He is also heading to compete against the Peronism of Governor Juan Schiaretti to
renew his bank.
Among the senators that Juntos por el Cambio puts into play, on the other hand, are Silvia Elías de Pérez from Tucumán and Laura Rodríguez Machado from Cordoba -
two of the harshest voices of the opposition
in the venue - and Julio Cobos from Mendoza, who
maybe jump to the Chamber of Deputies.
Senator Laura Rodríguez Machado (PRO-Córdoba).
The radical Pampean Juan Carlos Marino is also defeated, who
has been a senator for 18 years
and in 2019 was dismissed from a case for
alleged sexual abuse
initiated by an employee of Congress.
He already anticipated that
he will not seek renewal.
The former governor of Santa Fe, Carlos Reutemann, who has a monoblock but plays as an ally of Together for Change
ends his term
.
He is currently on leave because he is recovering from Covid after two weeks in intensive care.
In Deputies
, the Everyone's Front faces the renewal of Gabriela Cerruti from Buenos Aires (who has already announced that she
will not seek to renew either
);
Carlos Heller (who at the
age of 80
stoic presided over the Budget committee -the most moved- in the middle of the pandemic and will seek to renew);
and Leopoldo Moreau, who from the Intelligence Oversight Bicameral pushed investigations and complaints against the government of Mauricio Macri for a "systematic illegal intelligence plan."
The economist Fernanda Vallejos, during the Buenos Aires campaign in 2017. Behind, Cristina Kirchner, with whom she shared the ballot.
Fernanda Vallejos, who had headed the Citizen Unity ballot in 2017
together with Cristina Kirchner
, also has expired her mandate.
The Albertist
Pablo Yedlin
, who is a doctor and was key in the debate of most of the projects linked to the pandemic, must renew.
From the sector linked to the Renewal Front led by the president of the Chamber, Sergio Massa, the seats of José Ignacio de Mendiguren (
on leave
since 2019 to preside over BICE) and the expert in pension issues, Mirta Tundis, win.
Juan López, president of the Civic Coalition bloc and a henchman of its leader, Elisa Carrió, who would also seek to renew, defeats the block of Together for the Change in Deputies.
They also renew the "lilitas" Marcela Campagnoli and Paula Oliveto.
Deputy Juan López, president of the Civic Coalition bloc. Photo Rolando Andrade Stracuzzi.
For the PRO they renew two of the strongest defenders of macrismo: Fernando Iglesias and Luciano Laspina, the
main economic voice of the bloc
and vice president of the Budget commission.
Graciela Ocaña, who joined Cambiemos in the 2017 election, is also ending her term.
Others who end, within the radicalism, are the missionary Luis Pastori, Gustavo Menna, Brenda Austin and Facundo Suárez Lastra.
The other benches
As
Clarín
already said
, the minority blocks of Deputies, who during 2020 were in
charge of stopping or allowing the Government's initiatives to advance -
because the ruling party does not have its own majority in the Lower House - put their survival at stake.
The
Federal Unit and Equity
interblock
- informally known as
"the Ramones bloc"
by its president, José Luis Ramón, from Mendoza - is made up of 6 deputies who were
staunch allies of the Frente de Todos
in key votes.
This year there are
4 whose mandate expires.
On the other hand, in the
Federal interblock
-which brings together different political currents and does not usually vote in a unified way-
7 of its 11 members
renew
: three of the four Cordobes who respond to Governor Juan Schiaretti, a progressive from Santa Fe, a Lavagnist and two Justicialists .
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