The main opposition leaders at the Lower House agreed on a strategy to vacate the House for Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich’s briefing scheduled for today, complaining for not being able to cross-examine the minister during his briefings.
«We want to question, cross-examine, as in the Senate, and not just witness extense monologues that answer no inquiry, and having our questions answered -as they have been now- in a CD, with over half of them excluded,» UCR lawmaker Mario Negri said in a press conference.
UCR, PRO, Renewal Front, UNEN and FAP lawmakers will not be in attendance to the Cabinet Chief’s report in his second annual Congressional briefing, to dennounce the impossibility to cross-examine the Kirchnerite minister, and criticising previous special sessions devoted entirely to issues that “only matter to Kirchnerists”.
Negri bashed the ruling Victory Front for «turning the Lower House into a clerk’s office» and dennnounced that in 2013 there were only four ordinary sessions, the rest being special, «only to treat matters proposed by the government».
«We take this path,» Negri said referring to the decision to vacate the House, «to tell the Victory Front that having a majority does not give it the right to turn the House into a clerk’s office,» he stated.
The opposition leader’s “boycott” was planned last night in secrecy by Negri, PRO lawmaker Federico Pinedo and socialist Juan Carlos Zabalza.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald