Edgardo Kueider presented an amparo before the court demanding his reinstatement as senator, after being dismissed yesterday at Senate Chamber. His expulsion is related to the controversy that arose when he was found on the border with US$200,000 and later detained in Paraguay.
The entrerriano requires cancellation of the session in which his expulsion was decided, because at the time of voting Victoria Villarruel was in exercise of the national Executive Power, due to the Javier Milei tour of Italy. That is, it executed two functions incompatible with each othersince she is also president of the Senate.
This prohibition is established by National Constitutionthat is why Kueider did not take long to present his protection to the Administrative Litigation Chamber. He also reported that he was not allowed to make a dischargeaccording to him attacking his legitimate defense, and that a commission was not formed to deal with his dismissal, mandatory instances in the regulations of the Upper House.
Edgardo Kueider was expelled from the Senate
In an unprecedented event in the Senate after the return of democracy, Edgardo Kueider was dismissed from his bench. The initiative of Union for the Homelandwhich understood that an investigation was not required because the senator was found red-handed, had the support of more than two-thirds of the House.
Kueider’s place will be occupied by the Kirchnerist Stefania Cora. Meanwhile, the legislator’s office was closed with a strip until his judicial situation is clarified.
The arrest of the now former senator in Paraguaywhere he tried to enter with more than US$200,000 undeclaredprovoked in the only legislative meeting of the extraordinary sessions and even closed the crack: All the blocks had a quorum to sanction it.
They attended 67 of the 72 members of the Chamber who favored the expulsion over the proposal of Freedom Advanceswhich intended suspension of senatorwhich meant that he could not occupy his seat or enjoy his salary until at least March 1, the date on which the period of ordinary sessions begins.
That initiative had support only from Kueider’s colleagues (The United Provinces) and members of the PROso the ruling party changed its position at the last minute. “We had the intention of suspending Senator Kueider; but you need two-thirds for that and we couldn’t get them. We can’t let this go without any kind of vote because it wouldn’t be good for us. Since we don’t have numbers, we are going to vote for expulsion“explained the head of the block of Freedom Advances, Ezequiel Atauche.
Impeachment of Edgardo Kueider: how each senator voted
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.
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.
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Source: Ambito
