Overview

• Eight Kirchnerist senators formally asked to prohibit federal security forces from using Senate bathrooms and shared areas during protest deployments.
• Vice President and Senate President Victoria Villarruel issued a public letter on July 30 rejecting the request and stressing that state agents must be treated with respect without stigmatization.
• Villarruel explained that federal forces routinely bring their own portable toilets for Wednesday protests and only used Senate facilities once when their equipment was unavailable.
• Security Minister Patricia Bullrich and President Javier Milei had earlier criticized the senators’ petition on social media as an absurd and disrespectful measure.
• Kirchnerist lawmakers counter that their letter aimed to stop using the Senate as an operational base for protest policing rather than to ban bathroom access