Scandal in Congress: Kirchnerite, libertarian deputies row ends session

The Wednesday session of the Chamber of Deputies was scandalously interrupted with pushing and shoving between La Libertad Avanza and Kirchnerite legislators, leaving no option but to vote on the adjournment of the university budget increase and the situation in the Hospital Garrahan.

Speaker Martín Menem lifted the session after the situation ran out of control without being able to vote for the adjournment of other bills on the agenda.

The session slipped out of control when Kirchnerite deputies went looking for José Luis Espert to take issue with his insults against Florencia Kirchner and his charges of horseshit being hurled at his house, which ended with the arrest of Kirchnerite militants.

The deputies Sabrina Ajmechet (PRO), Juan Carlos Giordano (Frente de Izquierda) and Lorena Pokoik (Unión por la Patria) also clashed in the same session, swapping accusations of “anti-Semitism” and “complicity with genocide” while libertarian deputy Lilia Lemoine taped Pokoik when yelling “Murderer” at Ajmechet.

The controversy began when the PRO deputy asked the leftist Giordano to rephrase his oath, which had not been in the name of Argentina.

Giordano had sworn in for “the 30,000 missing, the socialist motherland and in support of the heroic Palestinian people against the genocide of the Zionist state of Israel,” prompting Ajchemet to recall the Argentines held hostage in Gaza after the terrorist attack of October 7, 2023.

Pokoik and leftist deputies then started yelling at Ajchemet with PRO deputy Silvana Guidici springing to the latter’s defence while Giordano stuck to his guns in supporting “the struggle of the Palestinian people against the genocide state of Israel.”

The leftist deputy said: "We are proud of our oath to defend the Palestinian cause with millions mobilising worldwide against the genocide being provoked by the Zionist state of Israel with its maximum exponent Benjamín Netanyahu, to whom President Milei went to give a sinister embrace, endangering the Argentine people.”

Guidici accused Pokoik of being “anti-Semitic” for yelling at Ajmechet, which was refuted by the Unión por la Patria deputy, who said that her family is Jewish and that she is the granddaughter of Polish Jews who suffered the Holocaust while insisting with her accusation against the PRO deputies for being “accomplices of genocide.”

– TIMES/NA