Lorena Villaverde resigned from her seat in the Senate. After her inclusion in the Senate was halted due to her background linked to drug trafficking, the Rio Negro leader chose to continue her term in the House of Representatives. “In these months I was a victim of media operations “Obscene, malicious and profound, aiming to destroy, exhaust and humiliate,” he expressed in a public letter addressed to Javier Maile.
yet, Villaverde’s future was uncertain. He was unable to take up office in the Senate because a challenge to his testimony was approved in the Constitutional Affairs Committee. On December 28, a vote was scheduled on their status in the council, but the bloc leaders decided to return the issue to the committee and discuss it with the new composition of the council after December 10.
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Villaverde had already submitted his resignation to the House of Representatives, where he has a term until 2027, but on December 2 he asked the head of the body to withdraw his resignation. Martin Menem. With Villaverde submitting his resignation from his seat in the Senate She decided to continue serving as a legislator without discussing her case again In the Constitutional Affairs Committee.
As confirmed by the ruling party Introductory accountMenem agreed to withdraw the resignation he submitted to the representatives. Therefore, The Rio Negro will continue to be part of Congress.
Beyond the technical issues, politically speaking, there seems to be a rumor that has grown over the weeks: that In government they left his hand. The questions directed against the leader in a case she had in the United States for drug trafficking have caused unease in La Libertad Avanza. His colleagues in the Senate also feared that it would become a “permanent stain” and that the opposition would insist on the issue in every debate.
Lorena Villaverde wrote a public letter addressed to Javier Maile
Villaverde posted on his networks a message of resignation: “It is a decision born of love, responsibility and cohesion: my children come before any position, because no political ambition is worth more than their well-being. In these months I have been the victim of obscene, malicious and profound media operations, aimed at destroying, exhausting and humiliating.” They were not political discussions: they were calculated violence against a woman, a mother and a leader This makes the old policy uncomfortable, he wrote.
The leader stressed, “Continuing under these circumstances would be tantamount to admitting harm and putting my family in danger. I will not do that.”
Villaverde never published her version of what happened in the United States, where she ran into trouble with the law after being found in possession of about 2 kilograms of cocaine. In his public message, he continued this line and simply said: “Sectors of the old regime They tried to turn my personal situation into a tool to stop reformsIt hinders the formation of the ruling bloc in the Senate and weakens the change project. I will not be part of that maneuver. “They will not use me as a pawn to stop the path that millions of Argentines have chosen.”
According to the leader, she made the decision because she knew that “Delaying decisions only benefits those who want to see this transformation process collapse.. “I am free and I will defend freedom, even if it means stepping aside.”
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