The extreme right Alfredo Olmedo in a terrible context there were removed of his position as president pro tempore of Parlasurfamous for happening serious institutional anomalies. Instead, it is accepted Fabiana Martinwho will be the first female president elected by this group of Mercosur.
Martín belongs to the Unión Celeste y Blanco party and is nominated by the Buenos Aires Legislature bloc Unión, Renovación y Fe. She was elected as part of the La Libertad Avanza front, but her place moved away from LLA after the Javier Milei and Mauricio Macri.
In an extraordinary session chaired by Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, parliamentarians installed Fabiana Martin as vice-president of the Argentine delegation and president of Parlasur for the year 2024, with 50 votes in favor, 12 against and 4 voting.
Olmedo was elected vice-president of the Argentine delegation – and president of Parlasur, since the position this year falls to Argentina – last December, after a broad political agreement, which decided to support his nomination due to his previous commitment to guarantee internal pluralism and the presence of all parties in parliamentary committees.
However, they quickly began to produce questions, because of the way he acted at the head of Parlasur.
In the month of March, for example, Olmedo abused his functions by arbitrarily excluding parliamentarians from commissions. In addition, in the regular session of that month he enacted the presence of security personnel at the entrances to the center, generating strong tension and even situations of inappropriate physical contact with parliamentarians from Brazil and Paraguay who publicly denied it during the session.
Another abuse he did was when he was president remove microphones from the speeches parliamentarians, preventing them from expressing themselves freely, a natural and necessary condition of any representative institution.
The irregularities again made him win the prize widespread criticism. Already in March, with the signature of 31 parliamentarians from Argentina, Olmedo was replaced in the post requested by the A complete loss of confidence in his management.
The other person was finally confirmed this Monday. With this leadership change, the Argentine delegation, made up of parliamentarians from Unión por la Patria, UCR, Cambiemos and La Libertad Avanza, hoping to end tension and conflict to be able to focus urgently on parliamentary work that will raise the standards of the country’s international relations, a task for which they were elected by the Argentine people.
Parlasur is a regional parliament with deliberative and consultative functions, within the framework of Mercosur. It consists of delegations from Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela, and is to be joined by Bolivia.
