The governor of Santiago del Estero, Gerardo Zamora, warned in an interview with the official agency Télam that “there is a collusion” between the Supreme Court and the government of the City of Buenos Aires, while questioning Judge Horacio Rosatti for assuming “roles that do not correspond to him”, but he also considered that the president of the highest court is not “in moral conditions” nor does he have “the legitimacy” to continue in that position.
Regarding the bid for the funds that updated the historic controversy between centralism and federalism, Zamora pointed out that although “today federalism is in conflict” at the same time Argentina is experiencing “a conflict of powers” because “there is a Judiciary, a president of the Court, who is assuming roles that do not correspond to him”.
“There is, on the part of the opposition, an idea that it is better for Rosatti to govern,” said the Santiago president.
This is how he referred to the alleged exchanges, illegally leaked, maintained through Telegram between Rosatti’s main adviser, Silvio Robles, and the former Buenos Aires Minister of Security and Justice, Marcelo D’Alessandro, messages in which the former gave advice to the second for the litigation between Juntos por el Cambio and Frente de Todos for the integration of the Council of the Magistracy.
Zamora, with a growing prominence in recent weeks, also spoke about the Court’s ruling on co-participation funds, the illegally leaked chats involving the leadership of the Judiciary, the complaints he received from the opposition and the upcoming elections. presidential.
“We do not attack anyone. We go with the law and article 53 allows us to,” he told the Court about the trial
Asked about the consequences of having spoken out in defense of federalism, Zamora replied: “The discussion of co-participation and CABA has to do with a medium- and long-term agenda. It is a problem of more than two centuries: the formation of our nation and the asymmetry that has occurred due to a lack of federalism. Our federal country has often had moments, decisions and sometimes also conflicts, since unitarism. Centralism has had a lot to do with decisions: Buenos Aires centralism. And I’m not talking about porteños as inhabitants of that space of little more than 200 km2 of surface, but coincidentally of what is concentrated there”.
In addition, the Governor stated that he had been attacked for his position: “There are 200 years of history that has been so and will continue to be so since the centralism of Buenos Aires. The provinces are underestimated. Santiago del Estero is the sixth province with a positive dollar trade balance And what is the City of Buenos Aires? The last province and the worst with a negative balance. It’s not even a province. And besides, it doesn’t produce anything,” he said..
Later, Zamora opined that the Court’s ruling affects the provinces. “If we get 200,000 million from there, doesn’t it affect us? Of course it does. Certificates of works, housing, national works stop being paid, and this happens in almost all the provinces. We have 6,000 homes under construction, almost 2,500 They are with national funds. Do the workers of the Uocra have to watch how the money goes to the banks of the city of Buenos Aires, to the coffers of the banks of the city of Buenos Aires, and we have to say “it’s okay, Because rulings are like that, you have to comply with them”? No, it’s not like that.”
On the impeachment of the Court
Zamora explained the steps to follow to deal with the impeachment of the members of the Court: “It is a constitutional mechanism, of article 53. We do not attack anyone. We go with the law and article 53 allows us. It is already in hands of Congress. The opposition even says that this is a coup or something like that. They have already put about 10 political trials against the President. Article 53 is a power that anyone has, but it seems that here only the PRO has it. The PRO can make impeachment, not the ruling party. They demand that the ruling party withdraw the impeachment, otherwise they will prevent Congress from working. Isn’t that responsible?”
“There is, on the part of the opposition, an idea that it is better for Rosatti to govern,” said the Santiago president
In another order, Zamora assured that there is collusion between the Court and the government of the city of Buenos Aires: “I denounced criminally, or a possible collusion, because I cannot say that the crime is configured either. Because nobody is guilty, they are always innocent , until proven otherwise. But the chats that came out, which have not been clarified, nor have they been denied by the Judiciary, the truth is that they imply collusion.”
And he added: “I already did what corresponded to me as a citizen, as a Santiago, as a governor. Because it affects the interests of my province and because there could be a crime in the middle. I filed the criminal complaint, now it is already in Justice. “
