The Chamber of Deputies yesterday held a special mixed session, where the oficialismo approved and turned to the Senate the project of the Government by which a strong expansion of budget spending until the end of the year, largely to meet the costs of the pandemic. In what was an extensive day, there were a pearl in charge of the Cordovan deputy Luis Juez, which was later repudiated on social networks.
It happened when evaluating in particular article 8, when the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Sergio Massa, enabled voting. After a few seconds, the Cordovan deputy, who attended the session through the virtual format, still did not issue his decision, which began to make lawmakers impatient.
The deputy had his computer microphone muted. Then, Massa asked: “Where is the deputy judge?” And then he ordered, “Open the microphone.” It was then that the entire lower house noticed that he was in the middle of an interview, talking about another topic, and that he had not realized that his colleagues were about to vote.
Massa, annoyed, expressed: “Deputy Luis Juez is in a journalistic interview, but he is absent when it comes to voting.” So, finally, Judge did not vote.
“Absent”. Luis Juez missed both votes: he was giving interviews
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The initiative debate, who obtained 228 positive votes against 9 negative and 16 abstentions, It passed without major setbacks, except when one of its most controversial articles was discussed: the one that proposes that holders of peso securities can dollarize their holdings for an amount of US $ 1.5 billion. The ruling party prevailed by very little margin: 129 positive votes against 125 negative of the opposition.
Hours later, when lawmakers they had to vote for the debt restructuring,Judge did it again. Massa called him three times, but the deputy never answered. At that time, the legislator was on the air in an interview with the Todo Noticias channel. “He is considered absent when it comes to voting,” said the president of the lower house.
The initiative to restructure debt It had broad support from the opposition, except for the left deputies Nicolás del Caño and Romina Del Plá. The vote had 247 positive votes, 2 negative and one abstention.
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