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Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 10, 2013. Several Front for Victory (FPV) lawmakers have presented a project calling for the expropriation of 24 percent of the shares of the Papel Prensa newsprint company, invoking "reasons of public utility".

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 10, 2013. The economic team headed by Minister Hernán Lorenzino asserted, before the Senate joint committee, that the creation of financial instruments to attract undeclared dollars to the formal system will shore up the investment in the energy and construction sectors.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 10, 2013. The Federal Authority of Audiovisual Communications Services (AFSCA) appealed today before the Supreme Court the ruling issued by the Federal Civil and Commercial Chamber on the constitutionality of several articles of the Audiovisual Communications Law.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 10, 2013. Judge Enrique Lavie Pico rejected an appeal presented by the Argentine Association of Patagonia Environmental Attorneys requesting the Justice to declare the unconstitutionality of the law that regulates injunctions.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 10, 2013. Alejandro Tullio, National Electoral Director, summoned all the political parties at national level to meet on May 20, to make up the Monitoring Council that will survey the organization of the primaries and mid-term elections, scheduled to be held on Aug. 14 and Oct. 27 this year.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 10, 2013. Federal Planning Minister, Julio De Vido reminded yesterday that President Cristina Fernández has stated that the Argentine economy “will not be cooled down”, and rejected the analysis made by “prophets of failure”.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 10, 2013. According to Oscar Parrilli, Secretary General of the Presidency, all that the opposition does is act “according to the wishes of the monopoly media groups, which want to rule again in Argentina”. 

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 10, 2013. The stands of the nations in the Buenos Aires Book Fair show their most representative production, through classic works as well as contemporary-fiction, poetry, history, politics, gastronomy and geography.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 9, 2013. Deputy Economy Minister Axel Kicillof, questioned today to those that "want to criminalize many Argentines that save their wealth in dollars without declaring them", and expressed that those savings are “the result of previous erroneous economic policies that do not belong to the current government”.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 9, 2013. Economy Minister, Hernán Lorenzino, affirmed today that the draft bill designed to place capitals into the formal market "is aimed at keep propping up the growth with social inclusion", and to "make more dynamic the private saving"

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 9, 2013. Presidents Cristina Fernández and Venezuelan Nicolás Maduro highlighted the "deepening" of the bilateral relationship between Argentina and Venezuela.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 9, 2013. Lawmaker and secretary-general of La Cámpora kirchnerite organization, Andrés Larroque asserted today that the opposition seeks a "revival" of what happened in the 2009 legislative elections, which led to the penalization of the national Congress for two years.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 9, 2013. Through its publication today in the Official Gazette, the Government called to hold primary and mid-term Congressional elections later this year.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 9, 2013. “We must thank God for having served the cause of two giants of the Americas, as Néstor Kirchner and Hugo Chávez”, said the President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro yesterday, during a rally in his honor organized by the United and Organized (Unidos y Organizados) Kirchnerite group.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 9, 2013. The Senate approved on Wednesday three bills of the judicial reform proposed by the Executive, to regulate the access to the judiciary, the publicity of the judiciary's rulings and the direct access to the sworn statements of judiciary's officials.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 9, 2013. The Senate passed last night the Council of Magistrates bill reforms, which became a law, since it had been approved by the Lower House.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 9, 2013. Deputy Economy Minister Axel Kicillof asserted that through the new legal instruments to channel deposits in US dollars, these funds will join the legal productive and development circuits.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 9, 2013. The Argentine savings bond for economic development (BAADE) can be issued in a promissory note version, like other sovereign bonds in circulation; reported the Economy Ministry.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 9, 2013. The use of the Real Estate Deposit Certification, CEDIN in the sale and purchasing of properties is an important opportunity for those people that want to legalize their savings, and will be also a real estate investment trigger, commented analysts of the sector.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 9, 2013. Congresswoman Juliana Di Tullio and Constitutionalist lawyer Eduardo Barcesat presented before Procelac (the Government office against economic crimes and money laundering) an accusation against any persons “suspected of being authors, participants or of covering-up money laundering operations in tax havens”, and called the Unit of Fiscal Investigations (UIF) to assume the role of plaintiff in all these cases.