After hard crossing in the Constitutional Commission of the Senate between Graciela Bianchi and the chairman of the committee, Charles Carrera, the bench of Senators of the Broad Front sent a letter to the president of the Senate, Beatriz Argimón, in which she manifests “his deepest dislike” about the senator’s performance.
During the Wednesday session in which the Cabildo Abierto bill on mandatory house arrest for people over 65 years of age, Senator Bianchi observed that the media re-entered, while she was exposing the Association of Mothers and Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared.
It is common in this type of meeting for the media, with prior authorization, to enter to take photos of the commission. This is what happened in this case when Bianchi noted that they were the same media that had previously entered, which sparked a heated discussion between the senator and the chairman of the commission, Charles Carrera..
“They have already entered before. Are they going to enter every time? Is this a circus? When the press comes in, it comes in once and that’s it,” said the senator and questioned that they had not asked permission again. Faced with Bianchi’s objection, Carrera replied “the press can continue doing its job, we will discuss it later.”
In response to the response of the chairman of the committee, Bianchi threatened to “assert the votes” and added “they no longer have a majority.”. Carrera reminded him that “there is a president” of the commission who “was voted”, to which the senator replied again that “there are majorities that are above the president.”
The broad front senator Enrique Rubio he intervened and after a discussion with Graciela Bianchi he ended by saying “the senator is out of her mind” to which Bianchi replied “You are daring. If I enforce the law of gender-based violence, you end up in the Prosecutor’s Office”.
Finally, Carrera agreed to put to a vote an intermission room previously proposed by the nationalist senator Carmen Asiaín and, for five minutes, the Association of Mothers and Relatives was forced to leave the room. “I apologize, but we had some issues to resolve between us,” Carrera explained.
The Frente Amplio bench stated in its letter that it was “unusual” that a senator interrupt the procedure “with the greatest obfuscation” and that she questions the chairman of the commission to interrupt the session.
“Our bench wants to express to you its full support for the actions of Senator Charles Carrera as chairman of the commission, defend the right that has always been granted to the media to the registration of images in these opportunities and that it considers a embarrassment what happened at the time“says the statement from the Broad Front.
