Opposition legislators failed to form an investigative commission into visits to the Ezeiza prison.
In order to determine whether there is a larger plan linked to the release of criminals from the last dictatorship, Opposition blocs staged a Plenary session of the House of Representatives committees where they evaluated a sanction process for six legislators Freedom Advances: Beltran Benedit, Guillermo Montenegro, Maria Fernanda Araujo, Alida Ferreyra, Rocio Bonacci and Lourdes Arrieta, who no longer belongs to the bloc.
The opposition requested the exhibition of the Libertarian deputies who in July participated in the visit to repressors convicted of crimes against humanity committed during the last dictatorshipto offer explanations about their actions and a potential plan to improve the conditions of detention of the aforementioned detainees. It is also intended to determine the characteristics that a possible investigative commission.
The Santa Fe native Esteban Paulón (We Make Federal Coalition) He asked to summon the minister Patricia Bullrichwho was named within the conversations of the libertarian deputies, and the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Fernando Martinez. Since the change in presidential management, the Ministry of Security has placed under its jurisdiction the management of federal prisons – traditionally, in the Ministry of Justice-. Bullrich subsequently removed the prison director Juan Velaverdewho had been in office for six months, and replaced him with Martínez, who had already held the position from 1989 to 2020.
The most tense moment of the day occurred after the president of the bloc Union for the Homeland, The Santa Fe man German Martinez, He said that “I still have hope that we do not put a cloak of impunity over a plan of impunity. That It will not depend exclusively on our block nor from those of PRO and LLA, who already know where they stand.”
“I find it very funny that those in the party of the pardon and amnesty from which Alfonsín saved us talk about a real vocation for trials,” responded the head of the plenary session, Silvia Lospennato (PRO), who denied requests for interventions: “I am not going to give them the floor because of their nerve. It seems that they want to rewrite history“.
Deputies from the ruling party and allies rejected sanctions
In addition to the lack of intervention by the pro-government legislators present at the plenary session, the Buenos Aires Silvana Giudici (PRO) He developed a defense by talking about “political exploitation” and listing cases of parliamentary indiscipline in the past that were not sanctioned, emphasizing representatives of Peronism: “No one showed the same intensity in removing deputies at the time.”
In that line, the Tucuman Paula Omodeo (CREO, a party allied to the ruling party) requested “Let’s stick to the rules and that’s it”“We cannot go deep and investigate the evidence because we violate the Constitution. My question is, what are we looking for with this?
The main official voice was the expression of the Cordoban Gabriel Bornoroni (Freedom Advances), who read that “there is no secret plan or conspiracy” and that “it is acceptable, and is part of the political game, to evaluate a visit in a negative way and repudiate it. But talking about sanctions and expulsions is another thing and can leave very dangerous precedents for this House.“.
Later, the Buenos Aires native Alejandro Finocchiaro relativized the word “serious”“We are in an Argentina where there are 1.5 million children who skip a meal a day and in an Argentina where 55% of the poverty level is affected.”
Report by Fernando Brovelli
Source: Ambito
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