This Wednesday the Chamber of Senators voted for the vice presidents for the third legislative year of the current government periodwith the vice president of the Senate, the nationalist Graciela Bianchi, as president of the table.
Pablo Lanz, a Colorado senator, and Amanda Della Ventura, from the Broad Front, were elected. When Bianchi was preparing to appoint the opposition senator, he asked her “to remove her identification for one of the options in the referendum”, which was a Yes badge, as can be seen in the live broadcast of the session on YouTube .
This happened when Della Ventura was going to be called by Bianchi to take his place as chairman of the boardas the new second vice president of the Chamber. “Those of us who are sitting here, all of us, do not have to be identified, and especially here (points to his place) in the presidency of the Senate, with no political option,” Senator Bianchi criticized.
The nationalist said that she was asking for it “for the good of the Republic”because she “could also have come with a political identification”, but claimed that it would “never” occur to him. If he did not remove the badge, she warned him that she would not give him the place and would end the session herself.
From that moment on, discussions began to be heard off the microphone, while Bianchi clarified that he was not bothered by the color of the insignia, and stated that he was not going to discuss the matter. The nationalist legislator asked to start voting for the member of the Permanent Commission of the Legislative Palace, but the white senator Carlos Camy asked for the remaining two agendas to be postponed. At that moment the Frente Amplio bench began to withdraw from the chamber.
“It’s not my problem, the Republic is above everyone”, Bianchi remarked, while the members of the Front left the room. A few seconds later they shared a new role with her, which according to the nationalist senator was going to “interest everyone”, but finally the session was interrupted.
