The former president Cristina Kirchner This Saturday he sent a message to the president Javier Mieli for the request of UP senators to expel Edgardo Kueider from the body. “Make sure that your Vice President does not forget to call a meeting and that your 6 senators come down to the room to provide a quorum,” He warned him.
Or is Kueider yours and are they going to let him continue being a senator because they are afraid he will speak? the former president asked herself.
In a message on the social network X, it started with “Che Milei! To you who said that you were coming to put an end to the “caste”, I want to inform you that the 33 Peronist senators are requesting a special session next Thursday at 11am, to remove the Argentine Senator who is imprisoned in Paraguay because they caught him in the Triple “Border with more than 200 thousand dollars without justification.”
Union por la Patria calls for a session in the Senate to expel Kueider
Union for the Homeland (UP) presented a request for a session in the Senate for next Thursday to push the expulsion of the body of Entre Ríos native Edgardo Kueider for “moral inability.” The senator is under house arrest in Paraguay (as is his secretary Iara Guinsel Costa), accused of attempted smuggling after being detained at the border with more than US$200,000 undeclared.
The senator who entered the Upper House for the Frente de Todos ballot in 2019 although he later distanced himself from Peronism and was a constant ally of La Libertad Avanza (LLA) Throughout this year, he requested leave from his position. With which, the ruling party effectively lost a vote for the extraordinary sessions. But UP now seeks Kueider’s dismissalsince if his departure occurs he would be replaced by Stefania Cora, a member of La Cámpora de Entre Ríos. That is, the Peronist interbloc would have more will to reach the 34 seats, three of its own quorum, which it could reach with allies.
“We are going to request a session to expel Kueider from the force next time,” they confirmed to Ámbito. from the block in the Senate. The order will enter this Friday. They indicated that the end of the ordinary sessions would not be a stumbling block, since it is an internal matter of the body. The self-convocation will then require a two-thirds majority to finalize the expulsion. In Peronism they do not know if they will reach the number, but they will try to confront the ruling party. “We want to see who supports him. He is imprisoned in Paraguay, they arrested him red-handedit’s like López’s bags”They told Ámbito from the UP trench.
The Senate regulations have gray areas in this regard, but the PJ interprets that if the majority is obtained it could advance. Other Peronist senators were not aware of the request for a session and expressed that what is moving forward is the resolution request which entered two days ago, and which should be discussed in the Constitutional Affairs Commission chaired by Kueider himself. Although, on her leave, her place could be taken by the vice president of the commission, Senator Sandra Mendoza from Tucumán (Union for the Homeland).
Meanwhile, from the presidency of the chamber they mentioned to this medium: “Peronism is going to try it because it is politically convenient for them, they could cast a vote, but we do not believe they will be successful”said Victoria Villarruel’s collaborators.
In the end of not getting the removal, the play will allow UP to expose Freedom Advancesafter the crossings between both spaces, ignoring the political belonging of the senator detained in Paraguay. For the ruling party, “it is a problem of Kirchnerism” as Javier Milei himself pointed out, with an order to post the 2019 ballot on networks, where Kueider shares a list with Alberto Fernández and Cristina Kirchner. The latter, like the Peronist leadership, emphasized the votes aligned with the Government made by the Entre Ríos, including the Bases law. They even slipped that the money seized on the border between Ciudad del Este and Foz de Iguazú would correspond to alleged bribes for unrestricted support for the LLA.
The Government seeks to promote in the Senate the dismissal of other investigated legislators
The Government decided on a counteroffensive against UP’s attempt to expel Senator Edgardo Kueider and proposes that, if that is the decision of the opposition, then the expulsion of all those deputies and senators with open investigations in Justice will also be proposed, to which would call a special session on Thursday to deal with each case.
Online the presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni Last night he launched a survey on his social networks that asked: Are you in favor of dismissing all Deputies and Senators who have judicial cases?
The list with all the deputies and senators who have cases in Justice would already be compiled and would be analyzed in Thursday’s special to discuss their respective dismissals, the NA agency assures. It is the same day that Unión por la Patria called to discuss the expulsion of the senator who was arrested in Paraguay for currency smuggling.
According to reports, Santiago Cafiero, Máximo Kirchner, Oscar Parrilli, Rodolfo Tailhade and Victoria Tolosa Paz would be on the list and the special session is called for 11, that is, one hour before the time requested by Unión por la Patria.
The argument of the ruling party is to expose the “double standard” of Kirchnerism, which on the one hand condemns Kueider in advance and on the other calls for due process. “They gave us a good idea,” they said near Milei.
Kueider entered the Senate on a Peronist ticket, But a few months after Milei took office, he negotiated an agreement, supported the Bases law and was encouraged by the Executive to lead the coveted Bicameral Intelligence Commission. (although he ultimately didn’t get that spot).
If he must leave his seat, a camp senator would take over in his place, which would complicate things for the ruling party in a Senate where their chances of taking the initiative are already very difficult.
Source: Ambito
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