After a long debate in the Senate, where the ruling and its allies took for granted that the project of Clean file He was going to sanction, the initiative was finally rejected thanks to the unexpected turn of the missionary senators Sonia Rojas Decut y Carlos Arcewho changed posture and blocked the law with Kirchnerism.
After having obtained half a sanction in the lower house, the initiative obtained 36 votes in favor and 35 against, but needed 37 accessions to become law because it is an electoral reform. What happened is that Rojas Decut and Arce had expressed themselves in favor of the initiative, but surprisingly they changed their vote.
With the help of the two missionary senators who are part of the Federal Concord Renewal Front block, the project returns to Zero Foja and can no longer be treated in the remainder of the year. In that way, the ex -president Cristina Kirchner could appear as a candidate for the national elections of Octoberalthough for now it seems determined to fight for a bank in the Buenos Aires Legislature
The project, which was rejected in the Senate for just a vote, had been listed by Kirchnerism as an attempt to proscribe Cristina Kirchner. What happens is that a clean file prevents the candidacies of those who have sentences for crimes linked to acts of corruption and whose sentences have been ratified in the second instance.
Rojas Decut and Arce, who respond to the governor of Misiones Hugo Passalacqua, in various opportunities had accompanied the initiatives promoted by the government of Javier Milei. In fact, both senators voted affirmatively to approve the specifications of Ariel Lijo and Manuel García-Mansilla as members of the Supreme Court of Justice, another vote that was key to the Executive and ended in defeat.
While Passalacqua was elected provincial president in 2023, The power in Misiones is actually handled by former missionary governor Carlos Rovira, although from the shadows. The executive’s former currently serves as a resident of the party to which the Rojas Decut and Arce benches belong. From that position it is also the one who dictates the orders to the four deputies of their space.
In the halls of Parliament it is known that legislators who respond to Rovira often enter the Senate or Deputies enclosure without knowing how they will vote. “We are less than a zero left,” a former legislator who could not renew his bank because Rovira did not want to renew it.
In the midst of a long debate that was crossed by the figure of Cristina Kirchner, among the allies of the ruling party suspected that the missionaries had received the order to vote against a clean file when the session was already very advanced. Although the senator had assured one of her peers that she would vote in favor, at the time of vote the surprise was absolute. Even what happened was evidenced in the face of Vice President Victoria Villarruel when he saw the result on the board.
-On Wednesday night, in the Senate the certainty that Rovira had reached an agreement with the Executive Power reigned, since only that could explain the vote against the law by his senators. Rovira is an official with all national governments.
In recent weeks they circulated versions that the Casa Rosada did not want the law Because they want to polarize with Cristina Kirchner in the electoral campaign. In the official Misiones scheme they admit that Rovira negotiated with Santiago Caputo.
The vote of the senator, as well as that of her co -Christian Carlos Arce and that of the 33 legislators present of union for the homeland, was fundamental for that result to occur. However, just over a month ago, The missionary had shown a diametrically opposite posture.
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Just a month ago, Missionary Senator Sonia Rojas Decut said she was going to vote in favor of a clean file
“We have accompanied the average sanction of a clean file. We believe that Argentine politics needs more transparency today, institutions must respond to the confidence of people with clear and effective tools,” said Rojas Decut on April 5 in Radio Up of Posadas.
In that sense, the missionary senator sentenced: “We, of course, are going to act in correspondence with what our national deputies do. We always act as a team, we analyze, and We believe that clean file has to leave“.
“It is something that society demands, it is not a legislative discussion. And it seems to me that it is today transversal to all the political forces of the country. People want complete representatives, committed to ethics and public responsibility, and it seems to me that we are a country that deserves to have this law sanctioned,” said Rojas Decut.
The missionary legislator, anyway, had raised a caveat: “The only thing we are going to insist by way of commission work, is with our digital clean card project, which is extended to all digital and computer crimes, and not only in matters of corruption.”
