After the strong onslaught of the president Alberto Fernandez once morest the Supreme Court in his speech before the Legislative Assembly, the opposition will accuse the president of meddling in the functions of the Judiciary, which is prohibited by the Constitution. While Together for Change does not rule out claiming the start of the impeachment of the president, the Federal interblock will request the annulment of one of the grounds for which the ruling party intends to advance the impeachment trial to the highest court.
The opposition will make its proposals next Tuesday at the meeting of the Political Judgment Commission, chaired by Carolina Gaillard and dominated by the ruling party. The head of the radical bloc, Mario Negriis of the idea of demanding the opening of the political trial of the president following what happened yesterday in Congress; In his opinion, the Court was the victim of a virtual “lynching” by the head of state. He will discuss the matter with his Together for Change peers before the Impeachment Committee meeting.
The only representative of the Federal interblock in the commission, Alejandro “Topo” Rodriguez, does not agree with the idea of insisting on the request for prosecution of the head of state. “The pro-government majority in the commission is going to reject it in limine in a matter of seconds,” he alleges. His strategy is different: he will make a presentation to declare null and void what has been done in the request for impeachment promoted by the ruling party once morest the Court. It will argue that President Fernández incurred in a undue meddling not only in the powers of the Judiciary (article 109 of the Constitution) but also interferes in the course of the trial process that is carried out in the Political Trial Commission to direct its final result.
“The president, in his speech, demonstrated that he arrogated knowledge of a pending case, particularly in the ruling on co-participation that benefited the city of Buenos Aires. His attitude violates article 109 of the National Constitution ”, added, on her part, the deputy Graciela Camano, of the Federal interblock, who advises Rodríguez with his legal team.
On this point he agrees with Negri. “President Fernández gave his opinion on the sentences already handed down by the Supreme Court. This is prohibited by the Constitution in its article 109; it is clear that it interferes with another state power”, emphasized the head of the radical bloc.
In his speech before the Legislative Assembly, Fernández was emphatic in questioning one of the Court’s rulings, the one that ordered the return of co-participating funds to the city of Buenos Aires. In his message, he maintained that these resources “they don’t belong” to the Capital because it is not part of the agreement law signed by the provinces and the Nation on federal co-participation.
“The meddling of Justice in budget execution is definitely inadmissible. It exceeds its faculties, it forgets the jurisprudentially established rule that recognizes ‘non-judiciable political issues’ and puts at risk the redistributive logic of the Federal Co-participation Law, causing severe damage to the balance of public accounts”, alleged the head of state.
Fernández’s onslaught caused strong discomfort in the judicial sector. For case, the Association of Magistrates He declared his “astonishment” at the president’s message and denounced that it is an interference of the Executive Power in Justice. “An act of such institutional significance, designed to inform the country regarding the state of the Nation, was used to direct an attack on the highest authorities of the Nation’s Judiciary,” the agency emphasized.
