The suspension affected Luis Picat, Mariano Campero, Pablo Cervi and Martin Arjol, who had initially supported the initiative but then supported the President’s veto, 24 hours after meeting with him at the Casa Rosada.
The complaint filed against the deputies that was elevated to the National Ethics Tribunal of the party, which will judge its conduct. This presentation also reaches Roxana Reyes and Gerardo Cipolini, the two legislators of the bloc who, although they did not vote against the law, were absent during the debate.
The Board of Directors decided by 11 votes to 1 to raise the 6 cases. The only one who did not support this proposal was Andrés Lombardi, from the sector of the governor of Mendoza, Alfredo Cornejo, close to Milei.
As for the suspension of the legislators, the initiative received 10 votes in favor against 2 against. In addition to the representative from Mendoza, the representative from Misiones also rejected this proposal.
“When the presidential veto was being discussed, four National Deputies affiliated with the Radical Civic Union and members of our Block deviated from what they themselves had maintained in the first vote and supported the presidential veto, incurring in serious partisan misconduct, and causing serious damage to the credibility and honor of our party. Even more serious were the arguments put forward during the session and in the media, to the effect that they had made a mistake in their calculations, and that their abrupt change of opinion was based on the need to guarantee fiscal balance,” the resolution stated.
In turn, through a statement, the Board of Directors of the National Convention of the UCR He asked the National Committee of the Party, the presidents of the bloc of both Chambers of Congress and the other party authorities to call for a dialogue table in order to prevent these situations from happening again in the future.
The radical bloc of deputies pointed against those who changed their vote
Days ago, the remaining part of the UCR bloc of deputies had condemned the actions of their colleagues and expressed their “discomfort and repudiation” of the decision to change their vote.
“The deputies of the Unión Cívica Radical bloc express our discontent and repudiation of the attitude adopted by five deputies from our bloc who broke a unanimous agreement and changed their vote to support the Government’s total veto of the pension law, thus causing a damage to the credibility and ethics of their radical positions in front of the citizens“, the other members of the space, Facundo Manes, Manuel Aguirre, Marcela Antola, Fernando Carbajal, Ana Carla Carrizo, Mariela Coletta, Marcela Coli, Pablo Juliano, Juan Carlos Polini, Jorge Rizzotti and Danya Tavela, stated in the text.
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