Expulsion of Edgardo Kueider: what precedents exist in Congress

However, there are similar experiences of sanctions. In 1996, and although he was acquitted, the senator’s privileges were removed. Eduardo Angeloz in the middle of the case that investigated irregularities for the cause known as Social Bank. In 2005, the last violation in the Senate when they sentenced the Puntano Raul Ochoa for having voted twice in two different locations in the 2001 elections.

In October 2017, and at the request of the deputy of Elisa Carrió (at that time, in the Cambiemos alliance), the violation of legislator Julio De Vido while he was investigated for causes of embezzlement when he held the position of Minister of Federal Planning. This enabled the possibility of his arrest, which took place a day later, when De Vido himself surrendered to justice.

Previously, there were two precedents of deputies dismissed from their seats, both belonging to the Justicialista Party. The Catamarcan Angel Luquein April 1991, he was dismissed after insultingly defending his son, who was convicted of the crime of María Soledad Morales. Later, the porteño Eduardo Varela Cid He was suspended in 1995 while he was being investigated for having requested bribes from postal businessmen and did not return to his position as banker. In 2002, Norma Ancarani de Godoy She resigned from her seat before her privileges were removed due to threats to television journalists who were investigating her.

In another sense, on different occasions they were not allowed to take over as deputies at the initiative of their own body. Luis Patti -twice elected as mayor of Escobar and candidate for governor of Buenos Aires in 1999 and 2003-; Antonio Bussi -a term as governor of Tucumán- and Raúl Romero Feris -with a mandate as mayor of the city of Corrientes and governor of the homonymous province- for his links with the last civil-military dictatorship.

Currently, six members of Freedom Advances in the Chamber of Deputies for his visits to genocidaires in the Ezeiza prison. Like the Constitutional Affairs Commission was led by a member of his party, the debate moved to the Committee on Petitions, Powers and Regulationsin charge of Silvia Lospennato (PRO). So far, the accused have not defended themselves in person and the complaint has been truncated.

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Kueider’s office was sealed off until his judicial investigation is resolved.

Justice closed Edgardo Kueider’s office in Congress

Justice ordered the senator’s office to be closed Edgardo Kueider in Congress, while the upper house discusses whether to expel or suspend him as a result of his arrest in Paraguay when trying to enter with US$200 thousand without declaring.

This Thursday, in the middle of the debate over the expulsion of the senator from the bloc The United Provincesaligned with La Libertad Avanza (LLA), lThe office he occupied in the legislative palace was sealed with a strip by judicial order, preventing staff access.

Meanwhile, the federal judge Sandra Arroyo Salgado requested the removal of immunity from the Entre Ríos senator Edgardo Kueider in a letter sent to Victoria Villarruel hours before the start of the session in the Upper House. In the letter he requests “proceed to his arrest through the corresponding diplomatic channels”.

The judicial measure occurs within the framework of a case against the legislator for illicit enrichment which is processed in the Federal Court of San Isidro. The federal judge He cannot request his extradition directly because Kueider has jurisdiction as a national senator.then, the judicial request must be dealt with by the full body and requires two-thirds of the votes.

In addition, it was decided to carry out twenty raids with intervention of the Gendarmerie on different addresses of natural and legal persons that could be linked to the matrix of public corruption that is being investigated as a derivative of the SECURITAS cause.