Martin Menem denies that Congress is going to pay for the trip of deputies to the funeral of Pope Francis

Thus he rejected a request from the opposition blocs that proposed to join the official entourage that will travel to Rome.

The ceremony will take place next Saturday 26th and some deputies had requested that "the means be settled" to travel to the grave. Read more

"Each legislator is free to attend the funeral, but it will not be the State that bears those costs," he said. Martín Menem denied that deputies would travel to the pope's funeral with public funds was first published in #BorderJournalism.

The head of the lower house said that if any legislator wants to travel to Rome he must finance it with his own resources

Martin Menem, head of the lower house, said that there will be freedom for those who want to travel to the ceremony but that each legislator will have to pay for their journey.

The president of the lower house dissociated himself from any official state-funded trip to dismiss Pope Francis. As Bergoglio’s family struggles to get to Rome by its own means, politics gets entangled in excuses and silences.