Parliamentarians from Parlasur presented a request for reimbursement of travel expenses and trips to attend the organization’s meetings

The amparo that entered the Court last Thursday was presented by the parliamentarians of Unión por la Patria (UP) Mariano Arcioni, Teresa Parodi, Gabriel Fuks and Franco Metazanext to libertarian Rodolfo Eiben and José Antonio Romero Feriswho was governor of Corrientes and national senator for the Autonomist Party.

“It is worth remembering that the parliamentarians of our country were elected by popular vote last October and that their work is ad honorem since they do not receive a per diem or have teams of advisors like the rest of the Mercosur parliamentarians,” they mentioned from UP.

In the document presented before Servini It is noted that “by effectively preventing the actors from attending the sessions of the Parlasur and thus exercise their rights of electoral representation for which they have been elected by the suffrage of the citizens of the Nation, currently and imminently injure, restrict and alter both those electoral rights, as well as the electoral rights of their voters and the Provinces to which they belong; which also affects the national and regional democratic system (Mercosur) and federalism.”

In this framework, this Monday a Parlasur session will be held for the first time in Argentina. The summit takes place in the legislature of the province of Córdoba with the presence of more than 50 parliamentarians from Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia. This meeting had the support of the provincial government and was attended by special guests from Argentina and the rest of the regional bloc.

Chainsaw to Parlasur

In September, Parlasur parliamentarians of the five member countries signed a resolution against the administrative decision of the Government of Javier Milei that removes the financing for the transfer of the delegation to the sessions held by the organization.

Article 14 of administrative decision 888/2024, which refers to the “Regime for Per diems, Accommodations and Tickets”, mentions in its article 14: “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship will report the amount of the corresponding contribution to the Republic Argentina from the annual budget of the Mercosur Parliament according to the contribution criteria established by Decision of the Common Market Council, in accordance with the provisions of Article 20 of the Constitutive Protocol of the Mercosur Parliament.” It bears the signature of the Chancellor Diana Mondino and Chief of Staff Guillermo Francosalthough the decision falls within the scope of the foreign relations portfolio.

“The attack carried out by the national government that leaves our country on the brink of non-compliance with international commitments is part of a particular context. At the beginning of the year, Argentina assumed the pro tempore presidency of parliament for one year. The person who briefly had that role was the Salta soybean businessman Alfredo Olmedo, one of the lenders of the five legal entities that allowed LLA to establish itself as a national party,” the UP parliamentarians said in a statement.

In the September session, parliament approved a declaration motion presented by the Brazilian Bolsonarist, Celso Rusomanowhich states: “The measure fatally affects the multilateral institution that represents the integration aspirations of all the peoples of Mercosur” and added: “Without the Argentine parliamentarians, our regional parliament is prevented from fulfilling its tasks and exercising its mission as the largest legislative body in the bloc.”

On the other hand, it is worth remembering that next December Javier Milei will assume the pro tempore presidency of Mercosur for six months and Brazil the presidency of Parlasur for one year.