The Kirchnerism strategy that blocked Macri in favor of Nicky Caputo

In the last stretch of a long session that took place in the Chamber of Deputies Cambiemos tried to approve without debate the resolution that named the "brother of life" of the president Mauricio Macri, Nicolás Caputo as honorary consul of Singapore in the country

From the opposition, they warned that in this character the best friend of the president will enjoy diplomatic privileges and immunities which give him this position, thus generating a conflict

For more than 12 hours, the legislators debated various projects, it was already 3 o'clock in the morning and the president of the Chamber, Emilio Monzó, tried to retain the quorum to approve the resolution but its efforts to no avail and the Kirchner applied his strategy and left the project untreated.

From the ruling party, the pro MP and the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Cornelia Schmidt Li erman, asked for a vote without a speech, but the deputy left the PJ-FpV Guillermo Carmona who s' is complaining: "Not in two minutes, I can talk about the scandal of this project." I want you to let me speak, President. "

" The President (Mauricio Macri) calls him brother of life. He had very strong economic ties with him and there are those who say he still has " warned the legislator while deputies were leaving the premises of apoco. [19659004] Mendoza, too, questioned the official benefit and privilege attempt " in Caputo as" the immunity from jurisdiction "that all consuls have " It is a judicial advantage that seems unreasonable to grant to the brother of the president's life ", criticized and noted that" this puts the state of Singapore in a privileged diplomatic situation. "

Between murmurs and the ambient sound of lawmakers leaving their seats, Monzó eventually surrendered and announced: "Unfortunately, he is up session." And the resolution was left untreated.

In dialogue with El Destape Carmona explained that "the proposal to change that is approved in the House for Nicky Caputo to be consul of Singapore reveals a network of traffic of influence and conflict of international interest "and warned that the maneuver of the ruling party was " to include as last issue to discuss " In addition, he added that "Argentina had closed the Singapore embbady a few years ago but the Macri government decided to reopen it in record time" and stressed that the Asian country "is considered as a tax haven and is criticized for money-laundering actions. "