The government of Argentina President Javier Milei criticized on Wednesday (25) the Senate of the province of Buenos Aires, the most populous in the country, for approving the day a bill that ends the limit of two consecutive terms for senators and provincial deputies, who can now be reelected indefinitely.
According to information from the newspaper Clarín, Guillermo Francos, Milei Management Chief of Staff, said in an interview with La Red radio that the project’s approval is “a setback” and that “there is a very strong caste” in the Senate of Buenos Aires.
Caste is the term used by Milei to describe members of Argentina’s “traditional politics”. “It was a good rule to limit the mandates of parliamentarians to avoid perpetuation in legislative bodies,” said Franco.
“[A aprovação do projeto] It’s part of the old politics we want to leave behind, ”said Milei’s chief of staff.“ It doesn’t seem to make much sense that parliamentarians approve a law that allows them to perpetuate and at the same time deny the mayors the right to be reelected for more than two terms. There is a certain inconsistency. ”
The proposal had 22 votes in favor, 22 opposite and abstention, which required a tiebreaker of the vice-governor of the province, the peronist Verónica Magario, who voted in favor of the project. Now, the article will be analyzed by the Chamber of Deputies of Buenos Aires.
In the interview, Francos criticized Senator Carlos Kikuchi, former ally of Milei, for voting in favor of the bill. “From a party founder [a Liberdade Avança] Which was against the caste, he became part of the caste, with the parliamentarians who accompanied him, ”he criticized.
In addition to senators and provincial deputies, the bill removes the limit of consecutive mandates for councilors and school counselors in the province of Buenos Aires.
