FNX Magokiler Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 The Argentine President, Alberto Fernández, received the support of twelve governors on Tuesday to promote the impeachment of the president of the Supreme Court and the other members of the highest court of justice. According to the statement released by the Argentine Presidency, twelve governors of the 24 jurisdictional leaders that the country has supported the impeachment of the members of the Supreme Court in one more chapter of the political tension between the Executive Branch and the highest court of Justice. The President had advanced on January 1 the intention to promote the impeachment of the president of the Supreme Court, Horacio Rosatti, for, as he indicated this Tuesday, "poor performance in his duties." Fernández and the governors also requested that the impeachment process begin for the rest of the members of the highest court - Carlos Rosenkrantz, Juan Carlos Maqueda and Ricardo Lorenzetti - for "some facts with different degrees of responsibility." They also asked the bloc of deputies of the official Frente de Todos (Peronist) "to support and promote the corresponding project so that the institutional process begins as soon as possible" in Congress. The political trial requires the intervention of the Chamber of Deputies and Senators with special majorities of two-thirds of its members, which neither the ruling party nor the opposition have, which rejected the Executive's initiative. However, the Impeachment Committee of Deputies can initiate the debate and an investigation. A recent ruling by the Supreme Court forced the national State to restore funds to the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, governed by the opposition leader Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, for a value of 2.95% of the so-called federal co-participation -compared to 2.32 current-. Despite the fact that Fernández initially decided not to abide by the ruling, he later announced that he would pay the capital's government, under the mandate of one of the main opposition candidates for the next presidential elections, with bonds, which was described as "cheating" by this latest. In the President's opinion, the Supreme Court ruling is an economic injection into Rodríguez Larreta's political career in an election year. In this context, in the last days of 2022, allegedly compromising conversations between a capital official and an adviser to the president of the highest court were leaked. The differences between the Executive branch and the Judiciary also cover decisions relating to the composition of the Judicial Council -the body that appoints, sanctions and removes judges-, in a context in which the vice president, Cristina Fernández, is facing several cases for alleged criminal acts that occurred during their terms (2007-2015). In one of them, on December 6, the former President was sentenced for fraudulent administration to 6 years in prison and disqualified from holding public office, a ruling that she decided to appeal. https://www.emol.com/noticias/Internacional/2023/01/04/1082881/fernandez-juicio-politico-suprema-argentina.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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