{"id":506916,"date":"2026-05-07T20:35:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/argentina-the-opposition-is-pressing-to-interpellate-adorni-but-the-governors-are-not-providing-the-votes-for-now\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T20:35:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:35:56","slug":"argentina-the-opposition-is-pressing-to-interpellate-adorni-but-the-governors-are-not-providing-the-votes-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/argentina-the-opposition-is-pressing-to-interpellate-adorni-but-the-governors-are-not-providing-the-votes-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina: The opposition is pressing to interpellate Adorni, but the governors are not providing the votes for now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Argentina.-<\/strong>The political crisis that erupted following the accusations against\u00a0Manuel Adorni<\/strong>\u00a0for\u00a0illicit enrichment\u00a0<\/strong>doesn’t give the Government any respite. This Thursday, opposition deputies formally convened a\u00a0session for May 14th\u00a0<\/strong>in which the four projects that promote the\u00a0interpellation<\/strong>\u00a0of the Chief of Staff will be discussed so that he can provide explanations about his travels and his assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>The real objective of the session is to summon the committees on Constitutional Affairs and Powers, Petitions and Regulations<\/strong> to rule on the interpellation projects against Adorni. Both committees are controlled by La Libertad Avanza and without the summons the opposition cannot force them to address the interpellation requests.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\nGetting initiatives to have an opinion is fundamental since without that regulatory step the opposition would need an aggravated two-thirds majority to be able to deal with the “on the table” projects, that is, without going through the corresponding commissions.\n\n

<\/a>Esteban Paul\u00f3n, one of the deputies promoting the motion of censure against Adorni<\/p>\n\nThe interpellation is a prior instance in which the coordinating minister must answer questions exhaustively and, in case of not clearing up all doubts, the possibility of moving forward with a motion of censure opens up.<\/strong>\n\nWe recommend reading:\n\nThe motion of censure is a parliamentary mechanism regulated in article 101 of the National Constitution that allows the Chamber of Deputies to express its disapproval regarding the management of the Chief of Staff. It was originally conceived as a “valve of escape” in the face of a serious political crisis<\/strong> that allows to stop possible abuses, errors or deviations in the management without decapitating the Executive Power. For the motion to prosper, it must be approved by an absolute majority (129 votes). If both Chambers then approve the removal, the affected minister must submit his resignation.<\/strong>\n\n\n

<\/a>It should be noted that this has never happened since the 1994 constitutional reform<\/strong> and Adorni himself denounced that it would represent a clear attempt to destabilize<\/strong> the Government.<\/p>\n\n\nThe benches of Uni\u00f3n por la Patria<\/strong> – which did not sign the request for a session and assures that it was not consulted – the Frente de Izquierda<\/strong> and sectors of Provincias Unidas<\/strong> have already made public their intentions to remove Adorni through parliamentary means. Added to these are a handful of legislators, including the former libertarian Marcela Pagano<\/strong>, who even filed a criminal complaint against Adorni. But these spaces will still have to add about twenty votes<\/strong> if they want to remove the Chief of Staff and, in that scenario, the governors will once again act as the deciding factor. Last week the entire Cabinet expressed its support for the Chief of Staff.\n\n\n

For the moment, provincial leaders are speculating about the times and sending ambiguous signals. The head of the United Provinces bloc, Gisela Scaglia<\/strong>, requested Adorni’s resignation but confirmed that the legislators who answer to the governor of Santa Fe, Maximiliano Pullaro, will not promote the motion of censure.<\/p>\n\n\n\u201cI don’t think we, the deputies, have to remove him.<\/strong> Adorni has to leave on his own. Adorni has to resign for several reasons. First, to do good for the government that he says he defends,\u201d he said to the provincial radio \u201cPunto a Punto (90.7 FM)\u201d. \n\nIn the same vein, the C\u00f3rdoba deputies who answer to Governor Mart\u00edn Llaryora<\/strong>, who are also part of the United Provinces bloc, also argue that Adorni’s situation must be resolved by the Justice.<\/strong>\n\nIn addition, other spaces such as Independencia<\/strong>, controlled by Governor Osvaldo Jaldo, Elijo Catamarca<\/strong>, linked to Ra\u00fal Jalil, and Innovaci\u00f3n Federal<\/strong>, where Gustavo S\u00e1enz and Carlos Rovira have a strong presence, have not shown any intention of playing all out against the Casa Rosada. Diego Santilli along with governors Alfredo Cornejo (Mendoza), Carlos Sadir (Jujuy), Mart\u00edn Llaryora (C\u00f3rdoba), Marcelo Orrego (San Juan), Ra\u00fal Jalil (Catamarca) and Maximiliano Pullaro (Santa Fe)\n\nIn fact, several provincial leaders had lunch with Interior Minister Diego Santilli as part of the tour led by the General Secretary of the Presidency Karina Milei through San Juan.\n\n“The governors and the intermittent Republicans are going to be exposed,” quipped a deputy, referring to the PRO and UCR blocs, allies of the Government.\n\n\u201cAt this point, with the damage he is doing to the Government, I think we end up doing Milei a favor if we remove Adorni, that way he won’t have to fire him,\u201d concluded another of the deputies who filed a criminal complaint against him.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Argentina.-The political crisis that erupted following the accusations against\u00a0Manuel Adorni\u00a0for\u00a0illicit enrichment\u00a0doesn’t give the Government any respite. This Thursday, opposition deputies formally convened a\u00a0session for May 14th\u00a0in which the four projects that promote the\u00a0interpellation\u00a0of the Chief of Staff will be discussed so that he can provide explanations about his travels and his assets. The real objective […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-27S4","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yerandi Santana","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-13-at-5.35.07-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}