Buenos Aires, November 19 (NA) – The head of the Union for the Fatherland bloc of senators, José Mayans, affirmed that the upper house cannot accept that the libertarian from Río Negro, Lorena Villaverde, take office due to her “links with drug trafficking” that make her “an unworthy person to hold a seat.” “We do not agree that Villaverde should come to a seat in the Senate and for that reason we request that she be replaced by the person who follows her on the list, so that they can be sworn in,” Mayans stated to Splendid AM 990. According to what the Argentine News Agency (NA) learned in the run-up to the meeting of the Constitutional Affairs Committee to deal with the files of the new senators elected on October 26, the legislator from Formosa said that Villaverde has “a relationship with drug trafficking that is a crime.” “We do not agree that this person, who has this background and because of that is prohibited from entering the United States, can occupy a seat in the Senate,” asserted Mayans.
