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Argentine Chamber of Deputies to Form Seven Commissions for Key Reforms

On Tuesday, the Argentine Chamber of Deputies will begin forming seven commissions to handle the agenda of extraordinary sessions. Key projects include labor reform and a juvenile penal code. The ruling coalition aims to lower the age of criminal responsibility but needs support from multiple parliamentary committees to achieve this.


Argentine Chamber of Deputies to Form Seven Commissions for Key Reforms

Buenos Aires, Feb. 9 (NA) -- The Chamber of Deputies will constitute seven commissions this Tuesday to deal with the agenda included in the extraordinary sessions, whose central projects are the labor reform and the Juvenile Penal Regime. The president of the Chamber, Martín Menem, had last week anticipated to the blocs that seven commissions were going to be formed, and asked them to send the names to each bloc. The ruling party wants to debate next Thursday the Juvenile Penal Regime to lower the age of criminal responsibility from 16 to 14 years, but to achieve its objective it needs the opinion of the plenary of four commissions. These are the commissions of Penal Legislation, Budget, Justice, and Family, Childhood and Youth, which is why the formation of the last two bodies must be completed, which will take place tomorrow. The schedule will start at 10 with the commission of Family, Childhood and Youth, where La Libertad Avanza will have 13 of the 31 members, Unión por la Patria, 11, 2 Provincias Unidas, 3, 1 Encuentro Federal, 2 from PRO, 1 UCR and 1 Innovación Federal. What's next At 11 it will be the turn of the Justice Commission, which could be chaired by the libertarian Sebastián Pareja and a very close leader to Karina Milei, according to parliamentary sources informed to the Argentine News Agency. In that commission, the ruling party will also have the first minority with 13 of the 31 members; UxP 11; the PRO two; the UCR one; Provincias Unidas three and Innovación Federal one. At noon the commission of Constitutional Affairs will be formed, which will continue to be chaired by the libertarian from Santa Fe, Nicolás Mayorca, and will have to evaluate the international treaty with the United States, which has not yet been referred to the Chamber of Deputies. At 13 the commission of Labor Legislation will be formed, which will have a key role since it must deal with the labor reform project that the Senate will debate this Wednesday. In that body, the ruling party will have 13 members and UxP 11.

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