Abstract

SAETTONE, FEDERICO MÁXIMO. La elección del presidente y los vicepresidentes de la Cámara de Diputados en Argentina (1983-2014). Un estudio de caso. Revista SAAP [online]. 2015, vol.9, n.2, pp.11-41. ISSN 1853-1970.

This article analyses the 31 preparatory meetings in the argentine Chamber of Deputies, in which are elected one president and three vice-presidents. The president is part of the majority Legislative Cartel, as well as the committees and the ruling party blocks leaders. The function of vice-presidents, by contrast, is to replace the president in his absence or when he resigns and to represent the minorities in the speakership. The whole membership of this office (president and vice-presidents) it’s characterized, between 1983-2014 years, by a plurality and a majority patterns. The first implies that the ruling party block controls the first two positions (president and first vice-president) and the first minority block the second vice-president position. The second implies that the ruling party block only controls the President position, remaining the rest for the opposition minority blocks. In this period it predominated the majority pattern, despite that the Chamber suffered an increased process of fragmentation of the oppositions blocks. Because of this, in 1996 it was created the third vice-president position, which was won by the deputies of the so called inter-parliamentary blocks, an unstable legislative coalition of opposition blocks articulated to gain parliamentary positions.

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