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127 of the current members of the Chamber of Deputies for the 2023–2025 period were elected in [[2021 Argentine legislative election|2021]], while the remaining 12730 were elected in [[2023 Argentine general election|2023 legislative election]]. The governing [[La Libertad Avanza]] alliance, to which President [[Javier Milei]] belongs, is the fourth-largest [[Parliamentary group|parliamentary bloc]] with 33 deputies, while the main opposition, [[Union for the Homeland]], holds the first minority with 100 deputies. |
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|colspan=2|'''[[Union for the Homeland]] ( |
|colspan=2|'''[[Union for the Homeland]] (100)''' |
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|[[Germán Martínez (Argentine politician)|Germán Martínez]] |
|[[Germán Martínez (Argentine politician)|Germán Martínez]] |
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|colspan=2|'''[[Republican Proposal|PRO]] (37)''' |
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|[[Republican Proposal|PRO]] (48) |
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|[[Cristian Ritondo]] |
|[[Cristian Ritondo]] |
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| bgcolor="{{party color|Radical Civic Union}}" | |
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|colspan=2|'''[[Radical Civic Union]] (34)''' |
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|[[Mario Negri]] |
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|[[Radical Civic Union|Radical Evolution]] (12) |
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|[[Rodrigo de Loredo]] |
|[[Rodrigo de Loredo]] |
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|[[Civic Coalition ARI|Civic Coalition AER]] (11) |
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|colspan=2|'''[[Federal Peronism|Federal Innovation]] (9)''' |
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|[[Juan Manuel López (politician)|Juan Manuel López]] |
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|[[Pamela Caletti]] |
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|Federal Encounter (4) |
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|colspan=2|'''[[Juntos por el Cambio|Federal Change]] (9)''' |
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|[[Margarita Stolbizer]] |
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|[[Miguel Ángel Pichetto]] |
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| bgcolor="{{party color|Hacemos por Nuestro País}}" | |
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|[[Production and Labour]] (2) |
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|colspan=2|'''[[Hacemos por Nuestro País|We Do for Our Country]] (8)''' |
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|[[Marcelo Orrego]] |
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|[[Ignacio García Aresca]] |
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| bgcolor="{{party color|Civic Coalition ARI}}" | |
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|[[:es:Avanzar San Luis|Advance San Luis]] (1) |
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|colspan=2|'''[[Civic Coalition ARI|Civic Coalition]] (6)''' |
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|[[Claudio Poggi]] |
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|[[Juan Manuel López (politician)|Juan Manuel López]] |
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|rowspan=2 bgcolor="{{party color|Workers' Left Front}}" | |
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|[[:es:Republicanos Unidos|United Republicans]] (1) |
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|rowspan=2 | '''[[Workers' Left Front|Workers' Left Front – Unity]] (5)''' |
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|[[Ricardo López Murphy]] |
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|[[Socialist Workers' Party (Argentina)|Socialist Workers' Party]] (4) |
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|[[Myriam Bregman]] |
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|[[Workers' Party (Argentina)|Workers' Party]] (1) |
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|[[Romina del Plá]] |
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|colspan=2|'''[[:es:Ahora Patria|Fatherland Now]] (3)''' |
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|[[Carlos Raúl Zapata]] |
|[[Carlos Raúl Zapata]] |
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| bgcolor="{{party colour|Production and Labour}}" | |
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|[[:es:CREO (Tucumán)|CREO]] (1) |
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|colspan=2|'''[[Production and Labour]] (2)''' |
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|[[Paula Omodeo]] |
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|[[Nancy Viviana Picón Martínez]] |
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|Republican Values (1) |
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|colspan=2|'''[[La Libertad Avanza|Free Buenos Aires]] (2)''' |
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|Laura Castets |
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|[[Carolina Píparo]] |
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|Independent |
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|colspan=2|'''[[:es:Somos Energía para Renovar Santa Cruz|For Santa Cruz]] (1)''' |
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|[[José Luis Espert]] |
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|[[José Luis Garrido]] |
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|colspan=2|'''[[Juntos por el Cambio|CREO]] (1)''' |
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|rowspan=3|'''[[Federal Consensus|Federal]] (8)'''<br />{{small|(President: [[Alejandro Rodríguez (politician)|Alejandro "Topo" Rodríguez]])}} |
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|[[Paula Omodeo]] |
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|[[We Do for Córdoba|Federal Córdoba]] (3) |
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|[[Carlos Gutiérrez (Argentine politician)|Carlos Gutiérrez]] |
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| bgcolor="{{party color|Avanza Libertad}}" | |
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|[[:es:Vamos con Vos|Bonaerense Identity]] (3) |
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|colspan=2|'''[[Avanza Libertad]] (1)''' |
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|[[Alejandro Rodríguez (politician)|Alejandro "Topo" Rodríguez]] |
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|[[José Luis Espert]] |
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| bgcolor="{{party color|Democratic Party (Argentina)}}" | |
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|[[Socialist Party (Argentina)|Socialist Party]] (2) |
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|colspan=2|'''[[Democratic Party (Argentina)|Mendoza Union]] (1)''' |
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|[[Enrique Estévez]] |
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|[[Álvaro Martínez (politician)|Álvaro Martínez]] |
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|colspan=2|'''[[Justicialist Party|Justicialist]] (1)''' |
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|rowspan=2|'''United Provinces (4)'''<br />{{small|(President: [[Luis Di Giacomo]])}} |
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|[[Guillermo Snopek]] |
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|[[Together We Are Río Negro]] (2) |
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|[[Luis Di Giacomo]] |
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|[[Front for the Renewal of Concord|Misiones Front for Concord]] (2) |
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|colspan=2|'''[[:es:Somos Energía para Renovar Santa Cruz|SER Santa Cruz]] (1)''' |
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|[[Diego Sartori]] |
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|[[Sergio Acevedo]] |
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| rowspan="2" bgcolor="{{party color|La Libertad Avanza}}" | |
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| rowspan="2" |'''[[La Libertad Avanza|Liberty's Advance]] (3)''' |
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|[[La Libertad Avanza|Liberty's Advance]] (2) |
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|[[Javier Milei]] |
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|Free Buenos Aires (1) |
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|[[Carolina Píparo]] |
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|colspan=2|'''[[Workers' Left Front|Workers' Left Front–Unity]] (3)''' |
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|[[Myriam Bregman]] |
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|colspan=2|'''SER – We Are Energy to Renovate (2)''' |
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|[[Felipe Álvarez]] |
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|colspan=2|'''[[Workers' Party (Argentina)|Workers' Party]]–[[Workers' Left Front|FIT–U]] (1)''' |
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|[[Romina del Plá]] |
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|colspan=2|'''[[Democratic Party (Argentina)|Democrat]] (1)''' |
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|[[Alberto Gustavo Arancibia Rodríguez]] |
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|[[Rolando Figueroa]] |
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Revision as of 13:39, 12 December 2023
Chamber of Deputies of the Nation Cámara de Diputados de la Nación | |
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2023–2025 period | |
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Type | |
Type | |
Term limits | None |
Leadership | |
1st Vice President | |
First Minority Leader | |
Second Minority Leader | |
Structure | |
Seats | 257 (List) |
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Political groups | Government (40)
Independents (110) Opposition (107)
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Length of term | 4 years |
Elections | |
Party-list proportional representation D'Hondt method | |
Last election | 22 October 2023 (130 seats) |
Meeting place | |
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Chamber of Deputies, Congress Palace, Buenos Aires, Argentina | |
Website | |
hcdn.gob.ar |
The Chamber of Deputies (Spanish: Cámara de Diputados de la Nación), officially the Honorable Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine Nation, is the lower house of the Argentine National Congress (Spanish: Congreso de la Nación). It is made up of 257 national deputies who are elected in multi-member constituencies corresponding with the territories of the 23 provinces of Argentina (plus the Federal Capital) by party list proportional representation. Elections to the Chamber are held every two years, so that half of its members are up in each election, making it a rare example of staggered elections used in a lower house.
The Constitution of Argentina lays out certain attributions that are unique to the Chamber of Deputies. The Chamber holds exclusive rights to levy taxes; to draft troops; and to accuse the president, cabinet ministers, and members of the Supreme Court before the Senate. Additionally, the Chamber of Deputies receives for consideration bills presented by popular initiative.
The Chamber of Deputies is presided over by the president of the Chamber (Spanish: Presidente de la Cámara), who is deputized by three vice presidents. All of them are elected by the chamber itself.
Current composition
It has 257 seats and one-half of the members are elected every two years to serve four-year terms by the people of each district (23 provinces and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires) using proportional representation (list PR), D'Hondt formula with a 3% of the district registered voters threshold, and the following distribution:
By province
Province | Deputies | Population (2010) |
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Buenos Aires City | 24 | 2,890,151 |
Buenos Aires | 70 | 15,625,084 |
Catamarca | 5 | 367,828 |
Chaco | 7 | 1,053,466 |
Chubut | 5 | 506,668 |
Córdoba | 18 | 3,304,825 |
Corrientes | 7 | 993,338 |
Entre Ríos | 9 | 1,236,300 |
Formosa | 5 | 527,895 |
Jujuy | 6 | 672,260 |
La Pampa | 5 | 316,940 |
La Rioja | 5 | 331,847 |
Mendoza | 10 | 1,741,610 |
Misiones | 7 | 1,097,829 |
Neuquén | 5 | 550,334 |
Río Negro | 5 | 633,374 |
Salta | 7 | 1,215,207 |
San Juan | 6 | 680,427 |
San Luis | 5 | 431,588 |
Santa Cruz | 5 | 272,524 |
Santa Fe | 19 | 3,200,736 |
Santiago del Estero | 7 | 896,461 |
Tierra del Fuego | 5 | 126,190 |
Tucumán | 9 | 1,448,200 |
By political groups
127 of the current members of the Chamber of Deputies for the 2023–2025 period were elected in 2021, while the remaining 12730 were elected in 2023 legislative election. The governing La Libertad Avanza alliance, to which President Javier Milei belongs, is the fourth-largest parliamentary bloc with 33 deputies, while the main opposition, Union for the Homeland, holds the first minority with 100 deputies.
Inter-bloc | Bloc | Leader | |
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Union for the Homeland (100) | Germán Martínez | ||
PRO (37) | Cristian Ritondo | ||
Radical Civic Union (34) | Rodrigo de Loredo | ||
Federal Innovation (9) | Pamela Caletti | ||
Federal Change (9) | Miguel Ángel Pichetto | ||
We Do for Our Country (8) | Ignacio García Aresca | ||
Civic Coalition (6) | Juan Manuel López | ||
Workers' Left Front – Unity (5) | Socialist Workers' Party (4) | Myriam Bregman | |
Workers' Party (1) | Romina del Plá | ||
Fatherland Now (3) | Carlos Raúl Zapata | ||
Production and Labour (2) | Nancy Viviana Picón Martínez | ||
Free Buenos Aires (2) | Carolina Píparo | ||
For Santa Cruz (1) | José Luis Garrido | ||
CREO (1) | Paula Omodeo | ||
Avanza Libertad (1) | José Luis Espert | ||
Mendoza Union (1) | Álvaro Martínez | ||
Justicialist (1) | Guillermo Snopek | ||
SER Santa Cruz (1) | Sergio Acevedo | ||
Democrat (1) | Alberto Gustavo Arancibia Rodríguez | ||
Source: hcdn.gob.ar (last update: 12 December 2023) |
Requirements
Individuals elected to congress must be at least twenty five years old with at least four years of active citizenship and it has to be naturalized in the province that is being elected to or at least have two years of immediate residency in said province. (Art. 48 of the Argentine Constitution).
History
The Chamber of Deputies was provided for in the Constitution of Argentina, ratified on May 1, 1853. Eligibility requisites are that members be at least twenty-five years old, and have been a resident of the province they represent for at least two years; as congressional seats are elected at-large, members nominally represent their province, rather than a district.[2]
Otherwise patterned after Article One of the United States Constitution per legal scholar Juan Bautista Alberdi's treatise, Bases de la Constitución Argentina, the chamber was originally apportioned in one seat per 33,000 inhabitants. The constitution made no provision for a national census, however, and because the Argentine population doubled every twenty years from 1870 to 1930 as a result of immigration (disproportionately benefiting Buenos Aires and the Pampas area provinces), censuses were conducted generationally, rather than every decade, until 1947.[3]
Apportionment controversy
The distribution of the Chamber of Deputies is regulated since 1982 by Law 22.847, also called Ley Bignone, enacted by the last Argentine dictator, General Reynaldo Bignone, ahead of the 1983 general elections. This law established that, initially, each province shall have one deputy per 161,000 inhabitants, with standard rounding; after this is calculated, each province is granted three more deputies. If a province has fewer than five deputies, the number of deputies for that province is increased to reach that minimum.
Controversially, apportionment remains based on the 1980 population census, and has not been modified since 1983; national censuses since then have been conducted in 1991, 2001, 2010, and 2022. The minimum of five seat per province allots the smaller ones a disproportionately large representation, as well. Accordingly, this distribution does not reflect Argentina's current population balance.[4]
Presidents of the Chamber
The president of the Chamber is elected by a majority of the Chamber's members. Traditionally, the presidency is held by a member of the party or alliance of the national executive, though exceptions have occurred, such as in 2001, when the Peronist Eduardo Camaño was elected president of the Chamber during the presidency of the radical Fernando de la Rúa.[5] The officeholders for this post since 1983 have been:
President | Party | Term start | Term end | Province | |
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Juan Carlos Pugliese | UCR | 29 November 1983 | 3 April 1989 | ![]() | |
Leopoldo Moreau | UCR | 26 April 1989 | 6 July 1989 | ![]() | |
Alberto Pierri | PJ | 6 July 1989 | 1 December 1999 | ![]() | |
Rafael Pascual | UCR | 1 December 1999 | 5 December 2001 | ![]() | |
Eduardo Camaño | PJ | 5 December 2001 | 6 December 2005 | ![]() | |
Alberto Balestrini | PJ–FPV | 6 December 2005 | 12 December 2007 | ![]() | |
Eduardo Fellner | PJ–FPV | 12 December 2007 | 6 December 2011 | ![]() | |
Julián Domínguez | PJ–FPV | 6 December 2011 | 4 December 2015 | ![]() | |
Emilio Monzó | PRO–C | 4 December 2015 | 10 December 2019 | ![]() | |
Sergio Massa | FDT | 10 December 2019 | 2 August 2022 | ![]() | |
Cecilia Moreau | FDT/UP | 2 August 2022 | 7 December 2023 | ![]() | |
Martín Menem | LLA | 7 December 2023 | Incumbent | ![]() |
Current authorities
Leadership positions include:
Title | Officeholder | Party | Province |
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Chamber President | Martín Menem | La Libertad Avanza | ![]() |
First Vice-President | Cecilia Moreau | Unión por la Patria | ![]() |
Second Vice-President | Germán Martínez | Unión por la Patria | |
Third Vice-President | Cristian Ritondo | PRO–JxC | |
Parliamentary Secretary | |||
Administrative Secretary | |||
Coordinating Secretary |
See also
References
- ^ "Con amplio acuerdo de la oposición, Martín Menem fue elegido presidente de la Cámara de Diputados". Infobae.
- ^ Honorable Senado de la Nación: Constitución Nacional Archived 2012-05-13 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
- ^ Indec: Historia de los censos Archived 2016-05-09 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
- ^ Reynoso, Diego Esteban (June 2012). "El reparto de la representación. Antecedentes y distorsiones de la asignación de diputados a las provincias". Postdata (in Spanish). 17 (1). Buenos Aires: 153-192. ISSN 1851-9601.
- ^ Domínguez, Juan José (14 October 2021). "Santoro dijo que la propuesta de Vidal de exigir "la Presidencia de la Cámara de Diputados no había ocurrido nunca"". Chequeado (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 December 2021.
External links
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