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The Constitutional Chamber of the Congress of Deputies, the most solemn and with the most pomp of how many there are, became surprisingly Thursday on the stage of an act of electoral campaign of the Peronist candidate for the Presidency of Argentina, Alberto Fernández . There were all the expected ingredients: public, songs, cheers, banners and, above all, the opportunity to give a 50-minute talk. All under the umbrella of Congress.

The anomalous situation of a candidate doing a campaign act in a Parliament a month and a half after the elections - the first round of the Argentine presidential elections is held on October 27 - was led by United Podemos, which was the parliamentary group that commissioned to provide the opportunity requesting the space with the excuse of a conference.

The problem is that, according to several parliamentary sources consulted, the formation of Pablo Iglesias hid at all times that the rapporteur who was going to intervene was the candidate of Frente para Todos , which counts as number two with former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner , immersed in an electoral process.

It was last Tuesday when the First Vice President of Congress, Gloria Elizo , of Podemos, brought a request to the Bureau meeting to hold a conference in the Constitutional Chamber two days later, without specifying the speakers. The brief only requested "permission" to "hold a day on New economic horizons in Latin America and Europe ." "This day will be open to the public, media and representatives of other parliamentary groups," he says briefly. What did not give rise to anyone to suspect.

The surprise for the members of Congress was to verify that who appeared there at the appointed time was Fernandez with a court of followers who pulled him with songs and banners. And there present, as a few more followers, the two representatives of United We can at the Table, both Elizo and Gerardo Pisarello , who acted as hosts. The same as other purple deputies, the chief of cabinet of Pablo Iglesias, Paolo Gentili , or the cofounder of Podemos, Juan Carlos Monedero.

The discomfort in other parties is strong because they feel "cheated." So much that the PP and Citizens have announced that they are going to file a formal complaint so that a similar situation does not happen again. Parliamentary sources recall that they once vetoed a similar situation with another candidate related to Podemos at the gates of an electoral process, so they believe that there is a clear intention to hide Fernández's presence to prevent him from being inadmissible.

The contrast is that behind the Chamber, Podemos promoted the talk with a poster announcing Fernández's "keynote conference" -photo included- and in which he placed the official emblem of the Congress. "Today the Congress of Deputies of Spain receives the next President of Argentina," said Monedero when he spread it, giving wings of office to his presence.

«The invitation did not go through the usual channels nor did it appear on the agenda and the groups did not know about Fernández's presence», Cs sources criticized, warning that We can «instrumentalize the house of all Spaniards» to influence An electoral process.

From the PP, the group led by Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo has its legal services studying the "most resounding formula" to express its complaint to the Bureau, so that measures can be taken against Podemos and someone never reassembles a "campaign act " in Congress.

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