This Friday's session in the Chamber of Deputies, in which the Omnibus Law promoted by Javier Milei was generally approved, left several pearls: from
Miguel Ángel Pichetto's stand-up
that provoked laughter and applause, to the
fury of Maximiliano Ferraro
against the Casa Rosada statement, until the
hard confrontation between Martín Menem and Germán Martínez
over the use of time.
One of the most notable moments of the debate occurred when Pichetto, president of the We Make Federal Coalition bloc, made his closing.
With chicanes, mischief and a waist exercised during decades in Congress, the deputy starred in a personal stand-up, crowned with laughter, applause and murmurs.
Although, due to the format, we should talk about
sit down comedy
.
Firstly, he stressed that "the DNU and the emergency framework to address all issues in Argentina have been a constant feature since 2001, except for the last two years in Mauritius."
"
Don't applaud, it's a fact of history
," he pointed out to demand silence, again, like on Thursday when he silenced the libertarians ("Don't applaud, idiots," he challenged them that day).
"
It seems like they came from Mars
, they don't even recognize their own actions. I was there, I know what happened," he insisted.
When he ran out of time and the bell was rung, he said,
"Who's ringing the bell, old man?"
.
Amidst the laughter in the room, he remembered that as block president he has 15 minutes, not five.
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National deputy Miguel Ángel Pichetto cited the extraordinary powers that Alberto Fernández had during the pandemic.
Meanwhile, he recalled that Governor Axel Kicillof,
the "chocolatier"
, in reference to the Buenos Aires Legislature, voted for several emergency situations.
Near the end,
he again lectured his colleagues
on the fine print of the chamber's regulations.
It was when he asked for permission to read a text, a while after asking the rest of the deputies not to do so.
"To be precise, you have to ask to read.
Learn the regulations, you have to ask the President
[of Deputies] for permission to read, you can't come with a piece of paper and read. And sometimes you read wrong!" he said, with a smile and some other people's laughter.
Then he reviewed the powers delegated in the government previous to Alberto Fernández.
"Moderate, by the way, today he is in Spain, calm down," he noted, quickly.
Laughter and subsequent praise from the radical leader, Rodrigo de Loredo:
"Miguel, you are the most I have heard in Parliament."
At the beginning of his presentation, he had already shown his suddenness: "
We live in liquid times, a Twitter and a glass of water are not denied to anyone
."
He thus tried to temper the spirits of
Maximiliano Ferraro
, who harshly criticized the Casa Rosada for the strong statement against the deputies.
Ferraro, against Milei's Twitter fury
The thing is that, minutes before, the leader of the Civic Coalition had expressed his anger at the message with which Milei - first from the Office - put pressure on the deputies.
"
It is inadmissible
. I ask him (Menem) to intervene in the face of the
Twitter fury that the State agency has
against another branch of the State such as the Legislative Branch," he emphasized.
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The national deputy of We Make the Federal Coalition, Maximiliano Ferraro, echoed the Statement published by President Milei on Twitter.
"Look, Mr. President, this legislative branch is trying to find solutions to articles that were impossible within the incompetence of the Executive officials themselves. So I ask
that you stop intervening in other powers of the state from the President's Twitter
so that We deputies can vote calmly," he concluded.
Specifically, the Office of the President had issued a statement in which it indicated that it was "
time for the representatives of the people to decide whether they are on the side of the freedom
of Argentines or on the side of the privileges of the caste and the corporate republic." , while warning that "
history will judge them according to their performance
in favor of the Argentines or in favor of continuing to impoverish the people."
The fight over the clock of the session of Deputies for the Omnibus Law
On the other hand, there was also a
tense moment
when
Germán Martínez and Martín Menem crossed paths over the use of time
.
It happened when the bell rang when the head of the Unión por la Patria block was speaking.
And Martínez continued talking.
Then, the president of the lower house asked him: “
Deputy, I ask you to finish your speech
.”
But the opponent did not give up.
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A harsh exchange of words occurred between the President of the Honorable Chamber of Deputies of the Nation, Martín Menem, and Germán Martínez due to the time that the head of the Unión por la Patria block had to speak.
“No, no, let me,” the man from Santa Fe responded.
Menem was firm: “No, it is going to extend as far as I authorize it, so please close it.”
Martínez kept asking for more time.
“
Don't tell me what I have to do, no one tells me what I have to do
,” Menem replied.
“
You don't tell me either
,” replied the legislator.
For his part, Menem insisted: “No, I will tell him and I will make him comply with the regulations.
If I tell him to finish, he will finish
.”
In the end, Martínez continued speaking for more than eight minutes.
Menem again asked him to finish his speech.
The Kirchnerist demanded one more minute but went a few seconds again.
And when 22 minutes were up he said enough.
The dart of a libertarian against Máximo Kirchner, the phrase about Disney and a bestselling quote
When it comes to duels, one of the harshest took place early in the afternoon.
After Máximo Kirchner
's speech
, it was the turn of a libertarian deputy to make her debut.
Emilia Orozco took advantage and, as if she were not a beginner, she downloaded her entire anti-K repertoire.
"I feel ashamed, I have worked hard to get to this seat, I am no one's daughter, I come from very low," said Orozco, national representative for Salta.
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The libertarian deputy from Salta Emilia Orozco criticized Máximo Kirchner.
Máximo K. left the premises and she reacted quickly.
"Please come back.
You are allergic to working.
On behalf of all the deputies I am going to apologize to all Argentines because they had to endure a very poor speech from the heir to the maximum corruption in this country," exclaimed the national legislator from La Libertad. Keep it up.
Another rookie, also a libertarian, was
Manuel Quintar
.
The deputy for Jujuy was surprised by the speeches of Unión por la Patria.
"With a certain hypocrisy, anachronistic, that we continue discussing whether the earth is flat or round. I have to express my surprise. There were speakers who spoke
as if the previous government had left us living in Disney,"
was his phrase against the opposition.
He also went to the library to justify the delegated powers.
"Easy times create weak men, weak men have created difficult times, therefore we need strong men to make the lives of Argentines a little easier," he said, quoting
novelist Michael Hopf
, a bestseller in the United States.