This was going to be the last column in this series on the assumption that with the deputies swearing in last Wednesday (and the senators already installed five days previously), everything would be in place in the new Congress and end of story. But quite apart from the uncertainties over Lorena Villaverde’s Senate entry (affecting both houses since she is a sitting deputy), Congress has been the scene of musical chairs with its first minority changing in the course of this week while provincial deputies and a Cambiemos revisited jockey for third place. In this state of flux there is no point in attempting to finalise a detailed party breakdown of Congress – this will be postponed for at least one week.
While there is not yet any absolute certainty as to the party labels of the senators and deputies, we at least know all their names now they have sworn in and Villaverde has finally pulled out (while it was the Peronists who first objected to her alleged narco links, her real nemesis might well be Patricia Bullrich – the first government figure to question José Luis Espert over similar links, being ultra-sensitive to any whiff of drug-trafficking after almost two years in the Security Ministry).
So let us look at those names and s
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