An Argentine is the new secretary of the Congress of …

Argentine MP Gerardo Pisarello of the leftist group Podemos has been elected first secretary of the Spanish Congress, the governing body of the Lower House, for the legislative session that begins today. This election is the result of the agreement of his group with that of the Socialist Party, the most numerous in the House, but not by the absolute majority, that is to say half plus one of the deputies.

Pisarello was born in 1970 in Tucumán and arrived very young in Spain, fleeing the repression of the dictatorship that murdered his father, Angel Pisarello, which made him a defender of the memory of the victims of dictatorships, especially Argentine. and in Spain.

Since 2001, he lives in Barcelona, ​​but in Madrid, where he continued his law studies, he lived in Spain until his move to the Catalan capital to teach constitutional law.

Elected deputy to Barcelona on April 28, after his appointment, he declared that his role was to "help to make visible the thousands of migrants who live and work in Spain" and who, like him, had to leave his country of origin. ;origin. .

Pisarello, son of political prisoners lawyer, arrives for the first time in Congress but already has political experience in Catalonia, where he was favorable to the organization of the referendum on the independence of this Spanish region , which finally took place on January 1st. October 2017 – not recognized by the Spanish government.

In a report that he presented last year to Página / 12 (31 August 2018), he clearly set out his position on the Catalan conflict. "This is a type of conflict that should not be resolved by judges or prosecutors, nor by police repression as was the case on October 1. At this moment, there are people of ideas imprisoned separatists, I think an aberration.In democratic terms, this is unacceptable and the solution is to recognize pluralism and diversity, "said deputy mayor of Barcelona at the time.

In May 2015, he was elected city councilor of Barcelona and appointed first deputy mayor of the leadership team of the progressive mayor Ada Colau, becoming the first Argentine to accede to this position in this Catalan province.

The new MP maintains his ties with Argentina, where he often goes to visit a part of his family.