The approval of Figueroa’s documents deepens the crisis of Kirchnerism with the Court

2023-09-29 01:50:00

In what is shaping up to be a marathon session in the Senate and following five months of not discussing projects in the upper house, the ruling party approved the document of the former chambermaid judge Ana María Figueroa. The case took on such relevance that at the request of the opposition it was voted on separately from the other possible 32 lists of officials of the Judicial Branch. Figueroa generated the reaction of the Supreme Court, whose intervention increased the tension with Kirchnerism, which paid special attention to the judge resuming her duties because the Hotesur-Los Sauces and Memorandum with Iran cases are in the courtroom where she intervenes. .

The vote ended in a tie, 35 to 35, and the president of the body, Claudia Ledesma Abdala, finished defining the situation in favor of the ruling party. Among the usual allies of the ruling party, they demonstrated once morest Carlos Espínola and Alberto Weretilneck. For its part, Magdalena Solari Quintana He was absent at the time of the vote.

The plot of a hot session in the Senate

“Hello, how are you, how are you doing? It’s been so long…” were the words with which Cristina Kirchner He greeted the opposition senators. After starting the session, the vice president left and left Claudia Ledesma Abdala from Santiago in her place. In addition to the specifications, this special session was called to discuss the sensitive projects that modify the Income Tax and the Rental Law.

Special session in the Senate: the ruling party achieved a quorum and Judge Figueroa’s document is being discussed

The ruling party had an advantage in the race to approve Figueroa’s specifications. It is that if the Peronist blocks of the National and Popular Front (which presides Mayans) and Unidad Ciudadana (chaired by Juliana Di Tullio) followed the flow, there were one-person blocks that accompanied the initiative and that in fact had provided a quorum for the debate, in the expectation of the PRO and radicalism blocks, which make up JxC, who wanted there to be no debate.

However, Senator Martín Lousteau’s request to vote Figueroa’s document separately from the other 32 officials of the Judiciary sought to individually expose each Congressional official who votes in favor. Although there was speculation that some did not want to go through that, the opposition already recognized PROFILE that given the quorum they gave Alberto Weretilneck, Magdalena Solari Quintana, Clara Vega -all with single-person blocks-, and María Eugenia Catalfamo, Guillermo Snopek, Carlos Espínola and Edgardo Kueiderfrom the Federal Unity bloc, “everything indicates that they are going to approve the specifications.”

The senator Guadalupe Tagliaferri, from Together for Change, regretted that the ruling party has reached such an “absurd” point of failing to comply with the rulings of the Supreme Court. “They did it with the co-participation from CABA and now once more with the ruling once morest former judge Figueroa. But I remind you that the Supreme Court is the ultimate interpreter of our National Constitution, whether (Kirchnerists) like it or not,” he stated.

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Tagliaferri refers to this The Supreme Court unanimously ordered that Figueroa, upon turning 75 – the age at which a judge must either retire or receive approval of his specifications in the Senate – leave his position on September 6. The ruling party did not manage to process the documents before her birthday, and the highest court did not take long to react to disaffect the chambermaid from the judicial body.

Days following this measure that the magistrate followed, Chamber I of Cassation advanced with the reopening of the Hotesur-Los Sauces and Memorandum with Iran cases. Along these lines, Di Tullio highlighted that those cases targeting Cristina Kirchner have already been brought to trial. “If that was the excuse for not voting for it, what are they going to say now. The two cases have already been brought to trial. What is the excuse?“.

And he attacked the Supreme Court once more: “These two magistrates who agreed to enter by decree (Carlos Rosenkrantz and Horacio Rosatti) now have the nerve to tell Figueroa that he has to retire. You surrender to the Judiciary, you have surrendered to the Judiciary. “How can they not defend their own constitutional prerogative?”

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The truth is that this initiative by the ruling party further strains things with the Court. The process will be completed if, following receiving agreement, the president Alberto Fernandez signed the designation decree, something that, it is felt, is assured, which would open a new power conflict.

In her turn, the official senator Anabel Fernández Sagasti reported that The highest court “meddled” in prerogatives that are exclusive to the Senate.

“It is not the first time that a ruling is approved following the applicant has turned 75 years of age. It has happened during this period and during the period of the government of Mauricio Macri“, argument.

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