Overview
- The ruling bloc installed the oversized violet lion in a fifth-floor meeting room of the Chamber of Deputies’ annex on Tuesday, and photos on social media drew fast pushback from opposition lawmakers.
- The new wall vinyl replaced an Argentine-flag design, though LA NACION reported the flag can still be seen faintly behind the libertarian image of a lion hugging the Congress dome.
- Opposition deputies Mónica Frade, Florencia Carignano, and Maximiliano Ferraro criticized the look and the spending, and congressional workers complained there is no money for wage talks but there is for lions.
- Parliamentary sources told reporters the expense was small and allowed under rules that let blocs decorate their spaces, and Ámbito said the order came from the caucus led by Gabriel Bornoroni.
- The room was used by the Radical Civic Union in the previous term and is now controlled by the governing bloc, a change that often shifts who stamps symbols on sought-after spaces inside the legislature.