Buenos Aires, December 2 (NA) – National deputy for La Libertad Avanza (LLA) Lorena Villaverde, who was unable to be sworn in as a senator last Friday due to challenges to her nomination based on ethical considerations linked to judicial cases for drug trafficking, withdrew her resignation from her current seat this Tuesday. This opens the possibility for her to remain in her current position in the Chamber of Deputies until her term ends in 2027. In a brief letter addressed to the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Martín Menem, and to which the Noticias Argentinas agency had access, the libertarian legislator stated that “through this document, it is requested that the note by which I resigned from my position as National Deputy be withdrawn.” Villaverde had attended last Friday's preparatory session of the Senate but had to leave the chamber after political forces reached an agreement to refer her nomination to a committee to discuss there the moral suitability or unsuitability of the Rionegrina to hold the office of senator. The national deputy was challenged due to her ties to Fred Machado, the businessman linked to drug trafficking who was extradited to the United States and who financed the campaign of José Luis Espert. Additionally, Villaverde had been detained in 2002 in the U.S. state of Florida when she attempted to enter the country with a kilogram of cocaine. One of her main detractors is Martín Soria, the former mayor of General Roca, who for two years has been relentlessly in the Chamber of Deputies about Villaverde's alleged ties to the drug trade.
