The government presses the accelerator in its advance against the members of the supreme court / CSJN
The ruling party wants to summon the members of the Supreme Court of Justice to Congress, where in the coming weeks the request for impeachment against that highest court promoted by the president, Alberto Fernández, will be discussed. This was confirmed yesterday by the block leader of the Frente de Todos in the Chamber of Deputies, Germán Martínez.
“How are we going to rule out citing them, if they are the defendants?” The Kirchner deputy advanced in a radio interview in which he also delved into the prosecution process: “In a first stage, a formal analysis is made of the conditions that sustain the political trial and a summary is opened. Then comes the evidentiary stage, where one tries to gather as many elements as possible to support the accusation.” Then, he said, “you can obviously request the presence of those who are accused. So that’s under review.”
Martínez added that “the President asked us to be serious from the institutional point of view and I am not going to enter into any Chicana. We are going to invite everyone we have to invite, absolutely everyone because the issue has enormous institutional significance. We are not talking about personal issues of the members of the Court, we are talking about institutional aspects that affect the whole of democracy, whether the Frente de Todos governs or another political space”.
According to the legislator, “a pillar of the request for impeachment has to do with the derangement that the Court made in the Council of the Magistracy with wrong decisions and then, on the other hand, the transfer of resources to the city of Buenos Aires.”
The deputy also indicated that “the subject of the chats (private that were leaked) is important in the request for impeachment because in those dialogues between ministers of the city of Buenos Aires and the right hand of Horacio Rosatti in the Supreme Court they speak what the PRO has to do and say. It’s an important seasoning.”
For Martínez, “we are not discussing whether I like any member of the Court more or less, the impeachment request is based on the invasion that it carries out on powers that belong to other powers in Argentina.”
Raids
The summons to the four members of the Court, Ricardo Lorenzetti, Horacio Rosatti, Carlos Rosenkrantz, Juan Carlos Maqueda, had already been anticipated by the Kirchner deputy Leopoldo Moreau.
“Of course, judges can be summoned, it is within the powers of the commission,” Moreau had indicated in a radio interview in which he also included Marcelo D’Alessandro, minister, as possible summonses to the congressional prosecution commission. of Buenos Aires Justice and Security, and Silvio Robles, adviser to the president of the Court, Horacio Rosatti, from an exchange of chats between the two that were disseminated.
Moureau even mentioned the possibility of raids: “Of course you can summon judges, you can ask for evidence, documentaries, expert reports on electronic devices; through a federal judge it can be raided. A witness can be taken by the public force if he refuses to appear,” warned the deputy about the four members of the highest court who on Tuesday were accused by the President and a group of PJ governors for “bad performance in their functions” and “manifests partiality” when issuing rulings.
A day later, Fernández delivered to the Lower House the request for impeachment against the Court and requested its “prompt legislative treatment” from the head of the Kirchner bloc in Deputies and the president of the Impeachment Commission, Carolina Gaillard.
