LIBRA scandal: The opposition presented a bill to break the deadlock in the Investigative Commission.

While politics looks to the sentencing of former President Cristina Kirchner or the escalation of the war in the Middle East, the opposition in the Chamber of Deputies hopes to resume work on the investigative commission into the $LIBRA cryptocurrency scandal involving President Javier Milei and proposed a project to unblock the progress of the investigation.

The commission will meet next Wednesday at 4 p.m. and has invited crypto experts Fernando Molina and Santiago Siri , as well as journalist Irina Hauser, all invited by the Encuentro Federal bloc. Likewise, legislators from the Unión por la Patria party summoned the secretary general of the presidency, Karina Milei , to explain her possible involvement in the scam; however, they expect the official not to appear, a position held by all Cabinet members summoned to testify.

Since its creation, the investigative commission has failed to advance its mission due to strategies promoted by the ruling party and its allied blocs. Currently, the deputies are waiting to appoint a commission chair; the two leading candidates, Sabrina Selva from the opposition and Gabriel Bornoroni from the ruling party, are tied with 14 votes each, meaning the commission cannot continue its work.

To overcome this deadlock, the opposition proposed that " in the event of a tie in the vote on the authorities, the proposed member who has the support of the committee members whose parliamentary blocs collectively represent the largest number of deputies in the Honorable Chamber will be designated as chairman ." The legislators specified that, in these cases, the vice-chairmanship of the committees "would be assigned to the other candidate proposed for the presidency; while the secretariat position would be assigned to a member proposed by the group of blocs or inter-blocs that sponsored the designated chairman."

Likewise, a quorum would be required to be half plus one of the committee members. "Decision-making requires a majority of the members present, except in those cases where the present decision expressly establishes a qualified majority." The president would also have the power to break subsequent ties by voting or signing.

The representatives who proposed the bill were Maximiliano Ferraro, Oscar Agost Carreño, Danya Tavela, Sabrina Selva, Mónica Frade, Paula Penacca, Nicolás Massot, Pablo Carro, Fernando Carbajal, Carolina Gaillard, Carla Carrizo, and Julia Strada. In their brief, they emphasized that "since the creation of the Investigative Commission, the ruling party has deployed a systematic and deliberate strategy to prevent the commission from fulfilling its objective."