30/10/2012 | Argentina

Senate to debate Budget, 'per saltum' bills

The Upper House of Congress will debate the Budget 2013 and "per saltum" bills in an intense session that is expected to last several hours.

08/11/2012 | Argentina

Pro-Gov't activists respond to pot-banging via posters

11/12/2012 | Argentina

Kunkel asks Lorenzetti to clear up presidential aspirations

Pro-government lawmaker Carlos Kunkel called on the head of the Supreme Court of Justice Ricardo Lorenzetti, to “clear up” whether or not he had presidential aspirations in a radio interview today.

05/09/2012 | Argentina

Pro-government lawmakers back youth vote bill

Pro-government lawmakers from both the Upper and Lower House of Congress expressed their support of the bill being debated by the Constitutional Affairs Committee, which if passed into law, will allow 16 to 18-year-olds the chance to vote in the presidential election.

02/10/2012 | Argentina

Senate preliminary approves ART bill reform

The Upper House of Congress preliminary approved the reform of the ART risk insurance law, with 41 votes in favour and 19 against. Meanwhile, the "femicide" sentences bill was unanimously approved, passed back to the Lower House.

04/10/2012 | Argentina

UCR qualifies Despouy's replacement as 'institutional coup'

The head of the Radical Party (UCR), Mario Barletta, assured that the bloc will not accept "such a violation" as the replacement of Leandro Despouy as the head of the Nation's General Audit (AGN) and stated that the radical leader "will remain as the legitimate head" of the control agency.

22/09/2011 | Argentina

Duhalde blasts Solá, says he 'never was a politics' man'

Ever since lawmaker Felipe Solá announced he did not feel “identified” with the opposition, the pro-government parties praised his decision, while the members of the opposicion harshly criticized him. Popular Front’s presidential candidate, Eduardo Duhalde, blasted his former ally bye saying “he never was a politics' man.”

23/10/2011 | Argentina

Rossi says the elections show a ‘strong Kirchnerism’

The head of the pro-government bloc at the Lower House of Congress, AgustínRossi, stated that the elections show “a political space like the Kirchnerism very strong and solid.”

23/02/2012 | Argentina

Lawmakers postpone Friday's special session over Malvinas

Pro-government and opposition legislators decided to postpone until Saturday the trip to Tierra del Fuego to present the document that will be the base for the “State policy” regarding the sovereignty claim over the Malvinas Islands.