A plenary of committees of the Chamber of Deputies debate the wetlands bill, without the participation of the majority of the deputies of Together for Change (JxC)and with the presence of provincial officials.
The meeting is chaired by the president of the Natural Resources commission, Leonardo Grosso (Frente de Todos, FdT) and his Budget counterpart, Carlos Heller (FdT), since the head of Agriculture, the radical Ricardo Buryaile, did not attend the question the call.
From Together for Change, only the radicals Dayana Tavela, Soledad Carrizo and Dolores Martínez attended the meeting.
The plenary is held with presentations by provincial officialssince the Minister of the Environment of the province of Buenos Aires, Daniela Villar, the mayors of Brikman, Gustavo Tevez, and La Para, Martín Llaryora, and Santa Fe, Rodolfo Stangoni, communal president of Fighiera, presented.
Villar complained about the absence of JxC stating that “what today should be a plenary session of commissions to discuss and advance with a State policy for our country of minimum budgets and a much-needed Wetlands Law, is going to be just another instance of conversation.”
The Buenos Aires official He once again demanded that the Wetlands Law be sanctioned and said that “recurring” powers between the Nation and the provinces “are clearly established.”
While, You look He said that “there is no opposition between the production and the protection of wetlands, on the contrary, we would be solving many other issues.”
Guzman I point out that “the first thing we have to keep in mind when we talk about these laws that have to do with environmental protectionism is that we must separate parties. The environment does not have a political color, it belongs to everyone”.
The Wetlands Project was ready to be ruled last Thursday, September 29, when an intermediate quarter was to be resumed to which the commissions had passed a week before, on Thursday the 22nd.
However, on the afternoon of Tuesday, September 28, the Chamber of Deputies, at the request of the majority of the presidents of the parliamentary blocs, decided to suspend that plenary session of commissionsin a decision that emerged after agreeing to a request from several governors to be heard in the framework of the debate.
Also, on Tuesday, September 27, Specialists summoned by the interbloc of Together for Change raised objections to several points in the articles of the project promoted by the official majority at a meeting of the Agriculture Commissionand agreed to point out that the sanction of this law will not bring a solution to the fire problem.
The decision to move forward in the debate had been agreed upon in the session of September 15, when a proposal by the deputy for Socialism, Enrique Estévez, was endorsed to urgently summon the commissions to debate the text that had already been sanctioned by Deputies but who lost parliamentary status.
The Wetlands Law is a citizen initiative presented for the first time in 2013, which has already obtained two half sanctions by the Senate (2013 and 2016), but that could never be approved in the Chamber of Deputies.
