Argentine Chamber of Deputies
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The Chamber of Deputies is the lower house of the National Congress, Argentina's parliament. This Chamber holds exclusive rights to create taxes, to draft troops, and to accuse the President, the ministers and the members of the Supreme Court before the Senate.
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[edit] 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 Federal Capital) using proportional representation, D'Hondt formula with a 3% of the district registered voters threshold, and the following distribution:
- Buenos Aires Province: 70 deputies
- Capital Federal: 25 deputies
- Catamarca Province: 5 deputies
- Chaco Province: 7 deputies
- Chubut Province: 5 deputies
- Córdoba Province: 18 deputies
- Corrientes Province: 7 deputies
- Entre Ríos Province: 9 deputies
- Formosa Province: 5 deputies
- Jujuy Province: 6 deputies
- La Pampa Province: 5 deputies
- La Rioja Province: 5 deputies
- Mendoza Province: 10 deputies
- Misiones Province: 7 deputies
- Neuquén Province: 5 deputies
- Río Negro Province: 5 deputies
- Salta Province: 7 deputies
- San Juan Province: 6 deputies
- San Luis Province: 5 deputies
- Santa Cruz Province: 5 deputies
- Santa Fe Province: 19 deputies
- Santiago del Estero Province: 7 deputies
- Tucumán Province: 9 deputies
- Tierra del Fuego Province: 5 deputies
[edit] Controversy
The distribution of the Chamber of Deputies is regulated since 1983 by Law 22.847, also called Ley Bignone ("Bignone Law"). This law establishes that initially each province shall have one deputy per 161,000 inhabitants, with standard rounding. After this is calculated, each province is granted three deputies more. If a province has fewer than five deputies, the number of deputies for that province is increased to reach that minimum.
The main problem today is that the distribution has not been changed since 1983, using the 1980 population census, though there have been two other censuses since then (1991 and 2001, the next being in 2011). So this distribution does not reflect Argentina's current population balance.[1]
[edit] Leading deputies
Leading positions include:
- Chamber President - Dip. Eduardo Fellner (FPV)
- First Vice-President - Dip. Patricia Vaca Narvaja (FPV)
- Second Vice-President - Dip. Liliana Bayonzo (UCR)
- Third Vice-President - Dip. Marcela Rodriguez (Civic Coalition)
- Administrative Secretary - Ricardo Vazquez
- Parliamentary Secretary - Enrique Hidalgo
- Leader of the Front for Victory block - Dip. Agustín Rossi
- Leader of the UCR block - Dip. Oscar Aguad
[edit] 2007 election
See List of current Argentine Deputies
[edit] 2005 election
| Coalitions and parties | Chamber of Deputies of the Nation: 127 out of 257 seats |
Senate of the Nation: 24 out of 72 seats |
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| Votes | % | Deputies | Votes | % | Senators | |
| Front for Victory (Frente para la Victoria) | 5,071,094 | 29.9 | 50 | 3,572,361 | 45.1 | 14 |
| Radical Civic Union (Unión Cívica Radical) | 1,514,653 | 8.9 | 10 | 597,730 | 7.5 | 2 |
| Alternative for a Republic of Equals (Alternativa por una República de Iguales) | 1,227,726 | 7.2 | 8 | 549,208 | 6.9 | - |
| Justicialist Party (Partido Justicialista) | 1,142,522 | 6.7 | 9 | 58,485 | 0.7 | 1 |
| Republican Proposal (Propuesta Republicana - PRO) | 1,046,020 | 6.2 | 9 | 492,892 | 6.2 | - |
| Justicialist Front (Frente Justicialista) | 670,309 | 3.9 | 7 | 1,364,880 | 17.2 | 3 |
| Progressive, Civic and Social Front (Frente Progresista Cívico y Social) | 625,335 | 3.7 | 5 | |||
| Alliance Union of Córdoba (Alianza Unión Córdoba) | 530,115 | 3.1 | 4 | |||
| Federalist Unity Party (Partido Unidad Federalista) | 372,843 | 2.2 | 2 | |||
| Alliance New Front (Alianza Frente Nuevo) | 347,412 | 2.0 | 3 | |||
| Front of Everyone (Frente de Todos) | 316,294 | 1.9 | 6 | |||
| Front for the Renewal of Concord (Frente Renovador de la Concordia) | 189,327 | 1.1 | 2 | 187,255 | 2.4 | 2 |
| Civic Front for Santiago (Frente Cívico por Santiago) | 185,733 | 1.1 | 3 | |||
| Neuquino People's Movement (Movimiento Popular Neuquino) | 85,700 | 0.5 | 2 | |||
| Front of Jujuy (Frente Jujeño) | 78,051 | 1.0 | 1 | |||
| Alliance Front of Production and Labour (Alianza Frente Produccion y Trabajo) | 71,984 | 0.9 | 1 | |||
| Others | 3,647,997 | 21.5 | 7 | 953,739 | 12.0 | - |
| Total (turnout 70.9 % resp. 72.3 %) | 16,973,080 | 127 | 7,926,585 | 24 | ||
| Registered voters | 26,098,546 | 12,081,098 | ||||
| Votes cast | 18,513,717 | 8,730,094 | ||||
| Invalid votes | 1,540,637 | 8.3 | 803,509 | 9.2 | ||
| Source: Adam Carr's Website Be aware that parties operate under various labels and alliances in the provinces. |
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