Argentine Chamber of Deputies
|
|
Template:Politics of Argentina The Chamber of Deputies is the lower house of the National Congress, Argentina's parliament. It has 257 seats and one-half of the members are elected every two years to serve four-year terms by the people of each district (23 provinces and the Federal Capital) using proportional representation, D'Hondt formula with a 3% of the district registered voters threshold, and the following distribution:
- Buenos Aires: 70 deputies
- Capital Federal: 25 deputies
- Catamarca: 5 deputies
- Chaco: 7 deputies
- Chubut: 5 deputies
- Córdoba: 18 deputies
- Corrientes: 7 deputies
- Entre Ríos: 9 deputies
- Formosa: 5 deputies
- Jujuy: 6 deputies
- La Pampa: 5 deputies
- La Rioja: 5 deputies
- Mendoza: 10 deputies
- Misiones: 7 deputies
- Neuquén: 5 deputies
- Río Negro: 5 deputies
- Salta: 7 deputies
- San Juan: 6 deputies
- San Luis: 5 deputies
- Santa Cruz: 5 deputies
- Santa Fe: 19 deputies
- Santiago del Estero: 7 deputies
- Tucumán: 9 deputies
- Tierra del Fuego: 5 deputies
This Chamber holds exclusive rights to create taxes, to draft troops, and to accuse the president, the ministers and the members of the Supreme Court before the Senate.
External link
Cámara de Diputados de la Nación (http://www.diputados.gov.ar)
Template:SouthAm-stub Template:Poli-stubes:Cámara de Diputados de Argentina