“…On the other hand, the performance of directly elected parliamentarians does not seem to be much better. Despite their availability (Parlasur, personal communication, Montevideo, August 2014), they lack parliamentarian experience or even skills to exercise their functions (Mariano, Bressan, & Luciano, , p. 8). In a similar vein, and contrary to expectations, direct elections of Argentine parliamentarians did not implicate the population in a positive way.…”