He message from Mayor Mariano Gaido for the opening of sessions on February 15 and the subsequent ordinary session to enter files It will be the only legislative activity until April in the Council in Neuquén capital, which will remain inactive due to lack of quorum.
The Most of the councilors are part of lists with municipal or provincial candidacies and the Organic Charter of the city obliges them to take leave from the officialization. The substitutions during the campaigns was one of the points that both the MPN and Together for Change resisted incorporating into the reform of the Organic Charter that was voted on last year.
This Friday and until the first two hours of Saturday, the Electoral Justice awaits the lists with the applicants. Ten days later, the Justice must inform the officialization.
According to the public presentations of the different parties and mayors, of a body of 18 members, more than 12 must leave the benches on February 20, cwhen the nominations are made official. «We will catch up, we will recover the 4 lost sessions. We did it in a pandemic,” said the president of the Deliberative Council, Claudia Argumero.
The head of the Council will also go on leave, because she is on the list of MPN councilors seeking the re-election of Mayor Mariano Gaido.
Because the presentation of all the candidacies does not end until the weekend «It is appropriate to continue working until everything is confirmed,” said Argumereither. In this way, this week ends a training for councilors and advisers on legislative technique, and on Wednesday the community chief will be received for the opening of sessions.
On Monday the 13th there will be a preparatory session, On Wednesday the 15th at 8:30 a.m. the opening session will be held and following Gaido’s speech, the first session of the year will be formalized with the entry of all the files with projects and requests that entered from January to Monday at the input table.
“We are not going to close the deliberative, it continues in administrative operation and maintenance of the building,” said Argumero who acknowledged that “Most of the councilors are candidates or candidates; Taking this into account, we will be left without a quorum because as soon as the lists are made official, they must automatically take leave: they cannot sign dispatches, they cannot meet or work on the files, “he explained.
He added: “personally, beyond the fact that I have to take leave, I am going to continue working on the ground listening to the neighbors, After 50 days without attending commissions, we will advance the different projects that we have to work on”, held.
In the Legislature are not required to take leave as in the Neuquén Deliberative. According to figures from the president of the empepenista bloc, Maximiliano Caparroz, 12 of the 35 deputies and deputies will be candidates, but “they are not required to take leave.”
He considered that there will be legislative activity from March 1 (opening by Governor Omar Gutiérrez, MPN) until April 16, it will be constant, despite the fact that it is the most intense proselytizing period.
«The lieutenant governor does have to take leave from next week,” Caparróz acknowledged. in relation to the candidate Marcos Koopman, who is going for the empepenista blue ruling party in search of the Neuquén governorship.
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