The Union for the Homeland initiative obtained 61 votes in favor of removing the man from Entre Ríos, today detained in Paraguay, from the Upper House, but there were members who did not join. Who voted in favor, who voted against and what was the only abstention.
Finally, by a large majority the Senate of the Nation expelled this Thursday Edgardo Kueider from Entre Ríos, detained in Paraguay with US$200 thousand without declaring. All blocks supported the Union for the Homeland initiative that triumphed, but there were some legislators who did not join. Who are those who voted in favor, who against and what was the only abstention.
The great majority that was constituted to remove Kueider met 61 votes, including his banking and provincial colleague Camau Espínola. Meanwhile, only five senators voted against, among them the radical Maximiliano Abad and the PRO Alfredo De Angeli). There was a single abstentionJuan Carlos Romero from Salta.
Although from the beginning Union for the Homeland (UP), along with sectors of the Radical Civic Union (UCR), intended to expel the Entre Ríos native from Congressanother alternative project, which had the support of the PRO and the LLA, proposed the suspension of the senator, finally the violets supported the majority initiative.
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After a fourth intermission, in which the block leaders debated the last details before the vote, the head of the libertarian caucus, Ezequiel Atauchesaid: “We intended to suspend Senator Kueider; you need two-thirds for that and we couldn’t get them.”
“We cannot let this go without any type of vote because it would not be good for us. “Not having numbers, we are going to vote for expulsion,” Atauche explained regarding the change in the ruling party’s position.
Of the seven PRO senators, the Buenos Aires vote favorably Guadalupe Tagliferriwho reports to Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, the Cordoban Luis Juez and María Victoria Huala from Pampa. Meanwhile, they spoke out against Carmen Alvarez Rivero, Andrea Cristina, Alfredo De Angeli and Enrique Goerling Lara.
How the senators voted
Source: Ambito
