After Senator K’s scandal over an office in the legislative palace ended in jostling and complaints, Victoria Villarroel He dealt a new blow to the administration of the Senate and signed a decree detailing how the offices would be distributed. This procedure left some surprises, but it caused… More tension with Patricia Bullrich due to the treatment received by senators from the ruling party.
Through Decree 607/25, the Vice President began to define a process Office distribution. He stressed again in the foundations of the document that “it is appropriate to implement an organic and fairer distribution of the spaces that will be available” between the various members of the Senate and parliamentary blocs.
The leitmotif of the measure was already raised in a previous decree that demanded outgoing senators hand over Senate furniture and assets, including reams of paper. But now the decree itself includes an appendix detailing which office each senator corresponds to.
But a version circulating in Congress claimed that the distribution of offices once again generated tension between the Vice President and the head of the “La Libertad Avanza” bloc, who was not satisfied with the way spaces were distributed in the Legislative Palace due to the displacement of some officials.
It is clear from the decree that only three senators from the ruling party, who were elected in October, obtained positions in the legislative palace. Bullrich benefited the most in the distribution of furniture by taking over the office that Martin Loustow occupied during these years, on the first floor and a few meters from the presidency.Villarroel’s office and the Parliamentary Secretariat. According to reports, the person who was also aspiring to get into this office is Ezekiel Atoch of Gogoi, who will continue in the building but on the ground floor.
The other two senators from La Libertad Avanza who will have an office in the campus building are Pablo Cervi from Neuquén and Agustin Monteverde, Bullrich’s economic deputy.
But in this new diagram of the offices that Villarroel solved, it appears so Jorge Capitanich (chaco), Martin Syria (Rio Negro) and Adrian Bahl (Entre Ríos) will have an office in the Legislative Palace. Added to them Gerardo Zamorathe man from Santiago with his own mass who will return to the office left by his wife, Claudia Ledesma Abdallah, on the ground floor, opposite Entre Ríos Street. Mariano Ricalde also has access to the palace after the renewal of his mandate.
This group of Beronists was added Eduardo “Wado” de Pedro and Florencia Lopez (La Rioja). But the most curious case is that of Cristina Lopez, who this week was involved in an incident with security personnel that ended in screams, conflicts and complaints.
The senator had agreed with Sergio “Oso” Levy to keep her office, 742, a half-floor with a private bathroom. The senator had settled in her office a week before she was sworn in after an agreement with the man from Salta that included retaining part of her team. A custom that always occurred in Congress at every change of body.
The fact is that Villarroel, when he learned of this move, changed the lock and Lopez hired a locksmith to open it. Despite this incident, the women of the regiment remained an office belonging to Levy, on the second floor, although there were no toilets. Like most senators, he was also assigned an office in the former Savings Bank annex.
They explained from the Vice President’s entourage that there was no room for all senators in the Legislative Palace and warned that the Vice President would contact Bullrich in due course to clarify the situation. Strictly speaking, the Villarroel administration plans to modify some of the offices so that more legislators can have a place in the campus building.
until, Office 742, which was part of the dispute with Senator K, will be divided so that three senators from La Libertad Avanza can have their office.
But beyond the office issue, the fight between Villarroel and Bullrich is generating more and more tensions within the vice president’s environment. Moreover, it is starting to worry the heads of other blocs who want to avoid this “Delegation” From the Senate he remembers the recent events that were recorded in the Chamber of Deputies, with crosses, insults and even punches inside the chamber as happened between the liberals Lisandro Almiron and Oscar Zago.
Other statements contained in Villarroel’s decree are that Carlos “Camao” Espinola will finally “inherit” the office held by Juan Carlos Romero of Salta, one of the main partners of the ruling party in these two years. While Flavia Royon, of Salta, subordinate to Governor Gustavo Saenz, has secured an office in the palace, which Espinola has been occupying, although they are looking into the possibility of equipping her with a bathroom.
Clarification: Lorena Villaverde of Río Negro has been excluded from the list of offices of the Senate, who has resigned her seat and will continue as a representative until December 2027. However, her replacement will be Enzo Follón, who must wait to be assigned to a position.