Against Parlasur | Macri asked to repeal the elections …

Determined to go against all regional institutions, after participating in the launch of Prosur in Chile, President Mauricio Macri said via Twitter that the National Congress "repeal the law" which obliges deputies of Parliament to elect at October 27th. "It costs a fortune to maintain unnecessary spending that means to generate a new body of representatives in Parlasur at each election," said Macri, although MPs of Parlasur do not impose a regime, but only compensation and a accommodation, the seat being in Montevideo. Coinciding almost verbatim with an editorial of the newspaper La Nación a few days ago, Macri has yielded because the representation is responsible for "the same deputies and senators who represent us already do it in Parliament like Brazil and Uruguay." Mercosur has established that by 2020, all parliamentarians in the bloc should be directly elected and that only Argentina and Paraguay are currently doing so. Argentina has 43 representatives in the Mercosur Parliament who were elected in 2015 with the presidential elections, 19 through a national list and the remaining 24, one representative per district. countries, and must be renewed at the end of the national elections. of this year.