The Senate defines the clean slate sanction in a hot session that could change the electoral landscape

The initiative will be the last to be discussed. The meeting will begin at 11.30, as long as it obtains quorum, amid contradictory messages from the ruling party. Cristina Kirchner’s candidacy, at the center of the scene

The meeting began with the 38 non-Kirchner senators in their seats; doubts remain as to whether the initiative will be approved or have modifications that would return it to Deputies in second review With the perfect attendance of the arch of non-Kirchnerist blocs, the Senate got the quorum and started the session in [...]

Since noon the upper House has been discussing the bill that prevents people convicted by the justice system from holding national public office. It will be the last point of a broad agenda. With the minimum number of senators present, the upper house opened on Wednesday noon the session that has as the main focus of discussion the clean sheet bill. 37 legislators sat on their benches, between libertarians and allies to the PRO government, the U…

After achieving quorum, the members of the upper chamber debate the initiative already approved in Deputies, which prevents those who have a double-instance conviction for corruption, such as Cristina Kirchner, from being nominated.

Since 11:30 there is a session to sanction the law that would disqualify Cristina Fernández from a national candidacy.