During the preparatory session of the Chamber of Deputies of the Nation, where legislators swear into their positions, the Frente de Izquierda (Left Front) took the opportunity for unconventional oaths.
Nicolás del Caño and Romina Del Plá used the occasion to include a series of social, labor, and international causes in their pledges.
According to the Noticias Argentinas news agency, both deputies turned their oaths into an explicit political platform that went beyond the constitutional requirement.
Nicolás del Caño's Oath The deputy included specific social demands and a strong stance on the region's foreign policy in his oath:
"For our retirees facing this repressive government, for the disability and health collectives and their brave struggle, for the girls and boys massacred in Gaza and for a free Palestine."
Romina Del Plá's Oath Romina Del Plá, in turn, focused her oath on defending labor rights, public education, and the rights of diverse groups:
"For the rights of workers against the labor reform, for retirees, against the persecution of those who fight, for public, free, scientific, and secular education, against the reform that seeks to destroy it, for the rights of women, of the diversities, against femicides and transvesticide murders, for the right of the Palestinian people to exist from the river to the sea, because in the face of this barbarism, the workers must govern through socialism in Argentina and in the world, yes, I swear."
The inclusion of these causes in the oath is a common practice on the left, seeking to make their political platforms visible at one of the most important moments of the start of parliamentary activity.
