Buenos Aires City Legislature
The Buenos Aires City Legislature (Spanish: Legislatura de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, commonly known as the Legislatura Porteña) is a central part of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is housed in the Legislature Palace (Spanish: Palacio de la Legislatura), an architectural landmark in the city's barrio of Montserrat.
Buenos Aires City Legislature Legislatura de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires | |
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| Type | |
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Term limits | 4 years |
| History | |
| Founded | 1996 |
| Leadership | |
President | |
1st Vice-President | |
2nd Vice President | |
3rd Vice President | |
| Structure | |
| Seats | 60 deputies |
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Political groups | Government (37)
Opposition (23)
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| Elections | |
Last election | 27 October 2019 |
Next election | 2021 |
| Meeting place | |
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| Buenos Aires City Legislature Palace | |
| Website | |
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History
The internecine warfare between those who favored a united Argentina with a strong central government (Unitarios) and Buenos Aires Province leaders who favored an independent nation of their own (Federales) dominated local political life in the decades following the Wars of Independence and led to the 1880 Federalization of Buenos Aires. Pursuant to this new policy, in 1882 President Julio Roca signed National Law 1260, which created the presidential prerogative of the appointment of the Mayor of Buenos Aires, as well as a city council by way of compromise towards the put-upon local gentry.
The newly formed city council (Consejo Deliberante) originally included 30 Concejales elected via male suffrage (though this excluded the city's immigrants, which made up a majority of voting-age males at least as late as 1914). The body first met during the tenure of Mayor Torcuato de Alvear, with whom a precedent for a productive relationship was established by cooperating on an unprecedented urban planning a renewal agenda. The council's resolution in 1921 for new grounds befitting a governing body of what had become one of the world's most prosperous cities was likewise approved by the Mayor at the time, José Luis Cantilo. A lot to the southwest of the Plaza de Mayo was set aside for the new building's construction, and was inaugurated on October 3, 1931.
The 1994 reform of the Argentine Constitution led to the rescission of the President's right to appoint the Mayor of Buenos Aires, and with the election of Fernando de la Rúa as the city's first directly elected mayor on June 30, 1996, an assembly was chosen for the purpose of drafting a new municipal constitution. Approved on October 1, the document created a city legislature in lieu of the city council, and increased its membership to 60 (elected for four year terms via party-list voting, as outlined in the D'Hondt method, with half the seats at stake every two years).
Overview
The body is led by the mayor's lieutenant, the Vice Chief of Government (Vicejefe de Gobierno), who acts as President of the Legislature. They are assisted by three Vice-Presidents and Parliamentary, Administrative and Coordinating Secretaries. Gabriela Michetti of the center-right Republican Proposal (PRO) party became the first disabled individual to occupy the post of President of the Legislature in 2007; she left this post ahead of the June 2009 legislative elections, where she won a seat in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies. The post is currently occupied by Vice Chief of Government Diego Santilli of PRO.[1]
Current composition
The body is composed of 23 committees, and the 60 legislators belong to 16 parties (a number of which form part of coalitions). The largest party currently seating in the Legislature is Mayor Horacio Rodriguez Larreta's Vamos Juntos (PRO) with 26 seats, joined in 2019 by Martin Lousteau's Evolution and Roy Cortina's Socialist Party, adding 9 and 2 seats respectively for a total of 37 deputies under the Juntos por el Cambio banner. The largest opposition block is Frente de Todos with 17 seats, followed by the Workers' Left Front (FIT) with 3 seats. The single-member blocks of Roberto Lavagna's Federal Consensus Luis Zamora's Self-determination and Freedom (Autodeterminación y Libertad; AyL) and Generation for a National Encounter complete the 60 seats.[2]
Represented political groups
All data from official website.[3]
| Group | Group president | |
|---|---|---|
| Let's Go Together (26) (Vamos Juntos) |
Diego Mariano García De García Vilas | |
| Everybody's Front (17) (Frente de Todos) |
Claudio Américo Ferreño | |
| Evolution (9) (Evolución) |
María Inés Gorbea | |
| Socialist Party (2) (Partido Socialista) |
Roy Cortina | |
| Socialist Workers' Party - Left Front (2) (PTS Frente de Izquierda) |
Myriam Bregman | |
| Self-determination and Freedom (1) (Autodeterminación y Libertad) |
Marta Martínez | |
| Federal Consensus (1) (Consenso Federal) |
Eugenio Casielles | |
| Workers' Left Front (1) (Frente de Izquierda y de los Trabajadores) |
Pablo Almeida | |
| Generation for a National Encounter (1) (Generación para un Encuentro Nacional) |
Sergio Abrevaya | |
List of current legislators (2019–2021 term)
| Legislator | Party – Bloc | Term start |
Term end | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abrevaya Sergio | GEN Party | 2017 | 2021 | |
| Almeida Pablo Fernando | Socialist Left–Workers' Left Front | 2020[lower-alpha 1] | 2021 | |
| Álvarez Palma Ariel | UCR–Evolution | 2017 | 2021 | |
| Andrade Javier | Frente de Todos | 2019 | 2023 | |
| Apreda Héctor Jorge | Vamos Juntos | 2017 | 2021 | |
| Arce Hernán Ariel | Socialist Party | 2017 | 2021 | |
| Barroetaveña Matías | Frente de Todos | 2019 | 2023 | |
| Barry Alejandrina | PTS–Workers' Left Front | 2019 | 2023 | |
| Bielli María | Frente de Todos | 2019 | 2023 | |
| Blanchetiere Gastón | Vamos Juntos | 2017 | 2021 | |
| Bou Pérez Ana María | Vamos Juntos | 2019 | 2023 | |
| Bregman Myriam | PTS–Workers' Left Front | 2017 | 2021 | |
| Cámpora Lucía | Frente de Todos | 2019 | 2023 | |
| Casielles Eugenio | Federal Consensus | 2019 | 2023 | |
| Cingolani Claudio Gabriel | Vamos Juntos | 2017 | 2021 | |
| Cortina Robert Vincent "Roy" | Socialist Party | 2019 | 2023 | |
| De Las Casas Mercedes | Vamos Juntos | 2019 | 2023 | |
| Del Gaiso Juan Facundo | Vamos Juntos | 2019 | 2023 | |
| Del Sol Daniel Eduardo | Vamos Juntos | 2019 | 2023 | |
| Estebarena Carolina | Vamos Juntos | 2019 | 2023 | |
| Fernández Ofelia | Frente de Todos | 2019 | 2023 | |
| Ferreño Claudio Américo | Frente de Todos | 2019 | 2023 | |
| Ferrero María Cecilia | Vamos Juntos | 2017 | 2021 | |
| Fidel Natalia | Vamos Juntos | 2019 | 2023 | |
| Forchieri Agustín | Vamos Juntos | 2017 | 2021 | |
| García de Aurteneche Cristina | Vamos Juntos | 2017 | 2021 | |
| García de García Vilas Diego Mariano | Vamos Juntos | 2019 | 2023 | |
| Garrido Esteban | Vamos Juntos | 2019 | 2023 | |
| González Velasco Laura | Frente de Todos | 2019 | 2023 | |
| González Estevarena María Luisa | Vamos Juntos | 2017 | 2021 | |
| González Heredia Guillermo | Vamos Juntos | 2017 | 2021 | |
| Gorbea María Inés | UCR–Evolution | 2017 | 2021 | |
| Guouman Marcelo Alejandro | UCR–Evolution | 2019 | 2023 | |
| Halperin Leandro | UCR–Evolution | 2018[lower-alpha 2] | 2021 | |
| López Matías Damían | Vamos Juntos | 2019 | 2023 | |
| Martínez Marta Jacqueline | Self-determination and Freedom | 2017 | 2021 | |
| Méndez María Sol | Vamos Juntos | 2017 | 2021 | |
| Michielotto Paola Vanesa | Vamos Juntos | 2017 | 2021 | |
| Montenegro Victoria | Frente de Todos | 2017 | 2021 | |
| Morresi Claudio Alberto | Frente de Todos | 2019 | 2023 | |
| Muiños María Rosa | Frente de Todos | 2017 | 2021 | |
| Neira Claudia | Frente de Todos | 2019 | 2023 | |
| Nosiglia Juan Francisco | UCR–Evolution | 2017 | 2021 | |
| Ocampo Martín | UCR–Evolution | 2019 | 2023 | |
| Pokoik García Lorena Iris | Frente de Todos | 2017 | 2021 | |
| Reyes Hernán | Vamos Juntos | 2017 | 2021 | |
| Roberto Santiago Luis | Frente de Todos | 2017 | 2021 | |
| Roldán Méndez Victoria Inés | Vamos Juntos | 2017 | 2021 | |
| Romano Lucía | Vamos Juntos | 2019 | 2023 | |
| Romero Claudio Ariel | Vamos Juntos | 2017 | 2021 | |
| Santoro Leandro | Frente de Todos | 2017 | 2021 | |
| Segura Rattagan Cecilia | Frente de Todos | 2019 | 2023 | |
| Socías Manuel Salvador | Frente de Todos | 2019 | 2023 | |
| Solano Gabriel | Workers' Left Front–Workers' Party | 2017 | 2020[lower-alpha 3] | |
| Straface Gonzalo Martín | Vamos Juntos | 2018[lower-alpha 4] | 2021 | |
| Suárez Guillermo Pablo | Vamos Juntos | 2017 | 2021 | |
| Thourte Manuela | UCR–Evolution | 2019 | 2023 | |
| Valdés Juan Manuel | Frente de Todos | 2019[lower-alpha 5] | 2021 | |
| Villafruela Gimena | Vamos Juntos | 2019 | 2023 | |
| Vischi María Patricia | UCR–Evolution | 2019 | 2023 | |
| Weck Diego | UCR–Evolution | 2019 | 2023 | |
| Source: Legislatura de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires | ||||
- Notes
- Since 10 December 2020. Replaced Gabriel Solano following his resignation on 10 December 2020.[4]
- Since 15 March 2018. Replaced Débora Pérez Volpin after her death on 6 February 2018.[5]
- Resigned on 10 December 2020, replaced by Pablo Almeida.[4]
- Since 5 July 2018. Replaced Andy Freire following his resignation on 1 July 2018.[6]
- Since 9 December 2019. Replaced Mariano Recalde following his resignation on 4 December 2020.[7]
References
- "Horacio Rodríguez Larreta y Diego Santilli juraron ante la Legislatura". puraciudad.com (in Spanish). 9 December 2015. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
- Palese, Gonzalo (29 October 2019). "La nueva Legislatura porteña: Larreta y el peronismo, con el desafío de un". Letra P (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 December 2020.
- "Legislatura de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires - Lista de Bloques". Archived from the original on 2018-05-20. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
- "Gabriel Solano renunció a su banca en la Legislatura porteña". Parlamentario (in Spanish). 10 December 2020. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
- "Un dirigente radical asumió la banca de Débora Pérez Volpin en la Legislatura porteña". Infobae (in Spanish). 15 March 2018. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
- "Gonzalo Straface asumió en reemplazo de Andy Freire". Letra P (in Spanish). 5 July 2018. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
- "Tras la salida de Recalde, asumió Valdés en la Legislatura". Letra P (in Spanish). 6 December 2019. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
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