“We are not against the Supreme Court, what we want is to improve it. And for that, we have to improve the performance of its members. We understand that the magistrates have incurred in many actions that go against the laws of the National Constitution They performed their duties poorly,” Penacca said in statements to AM 750 radio.
The legislator further explained that “the Political Judgment Commission will assess whether these judges continue to be suitable to carry out the functions that are dictated by the National Constitution.”
The Political Trial Commission of the Lower House will begin today to deal with the request for the removal of the Supreme Court judges, Horacio Rosatti (president of the court), Carlos Rosenkrantz, Juan Carlos Maqueda and Ricardo Lorenzetti, which is promoted by the Executive Power and several governors.
The initiative of this request for removal is based mainly on the rulings that the highest court issued on the co-participating funds that the City of Buenos Aires should receive and in relation to the functioning of the Council of the Magistracy, in a case in which a law that had been repealed 16 years ago by Congress. In this context, Penacca – also a leader of the La Cámpora group – recalled that in the Chamber of Deputies “there are 14 files on Impeachment in the commission and many of these files have been presented by representatives of Together for Change years ago.”
“What we ask of them is that they assume political responsibility and that they carry out the task for which society has voted them, we have not invented anything, impeachment is all regulated in the National Constitution,” he said. On the other hand, the FDT deputy stressed that “we expect a lot from this day” in the Chamber of Deputies.
“We are working a lot from the Frente de Todos (FdT) bloc, to put Congress into operation to deal with many very important issues for society as a whole.” “One of them does the pension, because there will be 800,000 people in the country who will not be able to retire if we do not advance in the sanction of the pension moratorium, but, unfortunately, from the opposition of Together for Change (JxC ) have shown the contempt he has for the population,” he said.
