The new scandal involving Edgardo Kueider continues to cause people to talk. Since this Friday morning, the senator who entered the premises on the Frente de Todos ticket and who has just provided his services to Milei, stayed with his secretary Guinsel Costa in the Tierra Alta complex. A luxury apartment complex that has high-cost amenities and services, such as a swimming pool, barbecue area and gym, among other things.
That was the modest place that both chose to serve for the next few days the house arrest that the Paraguayan justice system dictated to them for “attempt to smuggle currency,” after the legislator and his companion paid some US$ as bail. 150 thousand each. This is purchasing power and sums of money that the majority of the population is far from being able to save after decades of work. Kueider does not stop endorsing his exemplary role as a member of the political caste in Argentina. Selling votes for coveted positions, large sums of money, ability to pay very high bail and luxurious standard of living during the time of arrest.
Kueider, a native of Concordia, came to the Senate in 2019 as part of the lists of the Frente de Todos (Unión por la Patria). He was close to former governor Sergio Uribarri (recently arrested for a corruption case in which he was sentenced to eight years in prison) and his successor, Gustavo Bordet (who managed the province between 2015 and 2023 and for whom Kueider was general secretary of the Government). Kueider himself faced other criminal cases against him in the past for illicit enrichment.
After years of military support in Entre Ríos Kirchnerism, in 2022 Kueider separated from the Frente de Todos bloc of senators, but remained close to Alberto Fernández. Today he is a member of the Federal Unity bloc, facing Kirchnerism, along with his peers Mauricio Camau Espínola and Alejandra María Vigo.
This year, that bloc was fundamental in allowing the far-right government of Javier Milei to obtain some of its key laws to deploy its “war plan” against the living conditions of the majority. His greatest contribution was having raised his hand in the session of last June 12 for the approval of the Base Law. Kueider, Camau Espínola and Vigo gave their quota of beans to reach the 36 necessary for approval. Hence they were immediately baptized by locals and strangers as the “Peronists with a wig.”
To this day, after the scandal, both Peronism and Libertad Avanza are trying to distance themselves from the Entre Ríos senator. Neither Kirchnerism can redeem itself, after having sent it to the Upper House, putting it first on the Entre Ríos list, nor can the libertarian Government disengage from its negotiations and exchange of favors with Kueider and the rest of the Federal Unity bloc.
Without worrying much about the forms, the day after the vote on the Base Law, Milei appointed the Entre Ríos native as one of the three members of the Argentine Delegation before the Mixed Technical Commission of Salto Grande. A coveted position due to the importance of the dam in that province.
Furthermore, Kueider chairs none other than the Constitutional Affairs Commission of the Senate and a few months ago the Milei Government itself proposed him to be in charge of the Bicameral Intelligence Commission, an area controlled by Santiago Caputo.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
