Domínguez assures plurality in Congress is 'guaranteed'

The newly appointed Lower House president, Julián Domínguez, assured that “plurality is guaranteed in Congress” and called for “everyone’s political commitment to guarantee everybody’s interests."

“This can’t be the result of a party, but the result of creating consensus,” said Domínguez as he spoke as the Lower House’s president for the first time. Also, he assured that the Congress never passed a law against popular interests.

The former Agriculture Minister was chosen by fellow lawmakers as the president of the Lower House. He was suggested for the post by the head of the Kirchnerite caucus, Agustín Rossi, who praised his work in the Agriculture Ministry.

“Domínguez comes from solving one of the problems that had all Argentines worried for some time. He carried out a complex task in a moment in which very few people would give him credit, a moment in which people walked by a Kirchnerite and crossed the street and he assumed a responsibility President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner had expressly handed to him,” Rossi said.

Meanwhile, the head of the Radical Party bloc, Ricardo Gil Lavedra backed the initiative and praised outgoing Lower House president Eduardo Fellner.