The positions in the Legislature and the deliberative councils currently have indefinite reelection, unlike the positions in the Executive Branch, which only allow one reelection. When the new Constitution comes into force, all mandates will be limited to a maximum of two consecutive terms, but the opposition denounces a trick to enable the re-re from Quintela.
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Ricardo Quintela and his vice governor in La Rioja, Teresita Madera.
The bidding opened during the discussion on executive function. In it article 120which refers to the duration of the mandates, it is added that the governor and vice “may be re-elected or succeed each other for a single consecutive period.” promoting parity in its composition.” At that point, in Together for Change they understand that “a judicial interpretation” of this new text could enable a new mandate.
“The thing is establishes new conditions for the mandate to be exercised, so he I could ask that this second period be interpreted as the first,” they say and, for that reason, in the debate, They tried to add a transitional clause that established that Quintela’s current mandate should be considered as his second to “avoid double interpretations.” The ruling party refused.
The discussion in La Rioja
For the ruling party, the opposition proposal lacks logic. “Not only is it clear that the governor is in his second term, but the addition that establishes that parity must be promoted does not change anything, because Quintela now has a female deputy governor, Teresita Woodand he also had it before, Maria Florencia Lopez“, they point out and discard the possibility that the president resorts to the argument that “everything starts from scratch” because it is a new Constitution.
If so, they say, that would apply to all charges and would go against the reform that the ruling party itself proposes. “It would be barbarity“, they say.
In any case, what was approved on Tuesday is about partial dispatches that will now go to the editorial committee, which meets next Monday. If there are no inconveniences, on Wednesday he will arrive at the venue.
The public discussion will continue until mid-July anyway. The text has conflicting points regarding the functioning of the provincial Justice, digital governance, the right to informational self-determination, water, electricity, the internet and renewable energies. It is also established that the State will guarantee the right to health, education and sports and the co-participation floor for municipalities is raised to 20%.
However, the ruling party hopes approve the new text on July 11. You have until the 24th of that month, although the moment in which the swearing-in of the new Magna Carta will take place has not yet been defined.
The carom of Lule and Martín Menem
The election of conventional constituents took place in May 2023, along with the general elections in Rioja. Another country, another political map, without the weight that La Libertad Avanza currently holds. At that time, The Menems already had the seal ready to join provincial and national political life.
Nevertheless, They decided not to present a list of constituent candidatesin a play that JxC describes as tacit agreement with the Rioja ruling party. The target is not only the current president of the Chamber of Deputiesbut also his cousin, the Undersecretary of Institutional Management of the General Secretariat of the Presidency, Lule Menem.
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“They did not present conventional candidates in any department, but They monitored the entire election“, they say in the Cambiomismo and denounce that the Menemismo only presented local candidates in the provincial capital, with the sole objective of divide the opposition vote. Armando Molinathe Quintelismo candidate, won that election against the radical Inés Brizuela and Doria, from JxC, who was up for re-election. The difference was seven points and the LLA candidate, Olga Rodríguezranked third with 18%.
That movement that allowed Menem to increase his provincial wealth, which barely reached 15%, not only allowed Peronism to keep the capital, but also accommodated the constituent assembly in favor of the governor who, now, could be empowered to go for a new mandate in 2027.
