Argentine deputy resigns after exchanging caresses with woman in virtual session of Congress | World

“I stopped being a deputy last night. I presented my resignation,” Ameri told Argentine radio station A24, although he stressed that he had not committed “any crime” and that the mistake he made was “not looking at the Internet connection.”

According to the newspaper “Clarín”, the request for resignation was made to avoid his expulsion from the Chamber, and was sent during the night, still in the same session, being approved shortly after 3 in the morning.

Before resigning, Ameri had been suspended for 180 days.

During a session about paying retiree pensions, a woman sat on Ameri’s lap and the two began to exchange caresses. At any given moment, the parliamentarian kissed his partner’s breasts, which has not been identified.

In an interview with the Todo Notícias station, the deputy said that he and the woman “were nothing more than a kiss on the breasts” and that I thought the wifi was off. “Here in my house I have a sign that comes and goes,” he justified.

“It’s something serious that happened in the middle of a session, but I was completely disconnected,” Ameri told TN.

He then asked the press to leave his family and the woman who accompanied him in the video alone. “I don’t think the media should be at my sister’s door or harassing my partner. It is not your fault. She is being the victim of media harassment ”, he complained.

“They don’t take into account that behind what they communicate there are people, there are human beings. They are doing a witch hunt, ”he said.

Also on Thursday, the president of the Lower House of Argentina, Sergio Massa, said that he would listen to the explanations of the deputy. “But we cannot admit that this kind of situation occurs.”

“There was a situation that has nothing to do with the normal and normal operation and decoration of this house,” Massa said.

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