Buenos Aires, February 22. A group of Argentine senators on Wednesday announced their departure from the ruling Frente de Todos bloc in the Upper House and their decision to form their own bench, ahead of the complex electoral process the South American country will experience this year. .
Senators Guillermo Snopek, Alejandra Vigo, Edgardo Kueider, Carlos Espínola and María Eugenia Catalfano will form the Federal Unity bloc, leaving the Frente de Todos with 31 seats, out of the 72 seats in the Senate in total, a chamber chaired by the vice- country’s president, Cristina Fernandez.
This will make it even more difficult for the ruling party to reach, with allies, the quorum of 37 seats necessary to allow a session at the level of the Upper House.
“Today we formed the Federal Unity block with the aim of giving us a strategy to favor the interests of the interior of the country,” Edgardo Kueider said on social networks.
The senator assured that the bloc will work “in search of consensus” and stressed “the need for there to be an alternative within the Senate”.
“The current social, economic and political context is generating new demands. For this reason, we have a responsibility to legislate in a space that offers a truly federal perspective, focusing on the day-to-day issues that our provinces experience,” he said.
The parliamentarians who have decided to create their own bloc align themselves with the Peronism of the center supported by certain provincial governors, confronted with Kirchnerism and disillusioned by the management of President Alberto Fernández.
This so-called “federal Peronism” constitutes a political core, with a strong flow of clean votes in view of the presidential elections that Argentina will organize this year. EFE
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