Buenos Aires, Feb. 4 (NA) -- The President of the Chamber of Deputies, Martin Menem, remained in a meeting this Wednesday with government and opposition blocs to agree on the parliamentary agenda to be addressed in the extraordinary sessions, which will be focused on the discussion of the criminal bill to lower the age of criminal responsibility for minors.
The meeting was attended by the blocs of La Libertad Avanza, the UCR, Por Santa Cruz, the left, Encuentro Federal, Provincias Unidas, Innovación Federal, the PRO and Unión por la Patria, according to legislative sources consulted by the Argentine News Agency.
Participating in the meeting were the presidents of the LLA bloc, Gabriel Bornoroni, and his bench colleagues Silvana Guidici and Laura Rodríguez Machado; of Unión por la Patria (UxP), Germán Martínez; of the UCR, Pamela Verasay; of Encuentro Federal, Miguel Pichetto and Nicolas Massot; of Por Santa Cruz, José Luis Garrido; of the PRO, Cristian Ritondo; and of the left, Miriam Bregman and Romina del Pla.
Also attending were Alberto Arrua of Innovación Federal; Oscar Zagoff of MID; Claudio Álvarez of País Federal; Nancy Picón Martínez of Production and Labor; Maximiliano Ferrari of the Civic Coalition; and Karina Banfi of Adelante Buenos Aires.
The objective of the meeting is to agree on the formation of the seven committees that will have to handle the extraordinary agenda, with central themes being labor reform, the Glaciers Law, the Mercosur-European Union agreement, and the Juvenile Penal Regime.
IP The goal is for the blocs to send the list of members who will form the Justice, Foreign Relations, Mercosur, and Family, Childhood and Youth committees by Friday.
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