Rosario As Seat of The National Congress
A number of politicians, law experts and prominent locals have also been pursuing the idea of moving the National Congress to Rosario, turning the city into a federal capital along with Buenos Aires, in order to geographically and politically decentralize the national government.
On 22 November 2005, during a regional development forum, the governors of the Center Region (provinces of Santa Fe, Entre Ríos and Córdoba), together with Mayor Miguel Lifschitz and the President of the Board of La Capital newspaper, officially presented the project, which was sent to be studied by the Chamber of Deputies.
Justifications for the move include sparing legislators from the "urban neurosis" of Buenos Aires, the status of Rosario as the country's fastest-growing city and a productive pole, and historical reasons (President Justo José de Urquiza intended Rosario to become the federal capital already in the 19th century).
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