2024-03-01 11:52:22
Javier Miley will inaugurate this March 1st the period of ordinary sessions of the National Congress. The President will give a speech at 9pm before the Legislative Assembly, which will be broadcast on the national network. Outside Parliament there will be demonstrations for and against the Government and a strong security operation will be deployed with traffic cuts.
Milei will open the 142nd period of ordinary sessions. with his night speech will break the tradition of presidents of attending Congress at noon. The change caused some governors to modify the schedule of their presentations before the Legislature to be able to travel to Buenos Aires and attend the Legislative Assembly.
What will the opening of ordinary sessions be like?
The Legislative Assembly will be chaired by the vice president and head of the Senate, Victoria Villarruel. Milei will enter Congress through the esplanade on Entre RÃos Avenue. Then, the President will cross the Great Hall and the Provincial Halls, from where he will be escorted to the Blue Hall to sign the books of Honor, after a formal greeting with Villarruel.
Immediately afterwards, the head of state will be led along with the vice president to the venue by the interior commission, and will find his place at the lectern to begin his speech.
American style
The Government explained that the decision to open at 9 p.m. was to take advantage of the prime time of television and so that more people can see the President. No one escapes, in any case, that the The format chosen by Milei is similar to that of the United States, a country that she admires and has as a reference..
The president of the United States also appears before Congress each year to deliver his State Of The Union address and does so from a lectern in front of the podium of the presidency of the House, as Milei will do tonight.
The libertarian also imitated American aesthetics at the beginning of his administration. He did it when he gave his inaugural address on the steps of Congress, trying to model the ceremonies that American presidents do at the doors of the Capitol.