A few days after the start of the process of Impeachment of the ministers of the Supreme Court of Justice in the National Congress, the deputies of the Frente de Todos (FdT) assured today that they will give in the commission of the same name “an in-depth debate, with arguments, away from all Chicano and petty interest”, while they called on legislators from all blocks to “an intense discussion facing society.
The pro-government legislators that make up the Impeachment Committee met this morning through the Zoom platform and advanced in the analysis of the next steps to take based on the request that the President delivered to them last week and that was accompanied by the governors of twelve provinces to advance in the impeachment of the members of the Supreme Court.
Within this framework, the legislators made progress in the preparation of the text of the project that they will present “between today and tomorrow” in the lower house to open the process, once the Executive Power formalizes the call for extraordinary sessions and includes the debate on that initiative. . “We will work from the Commission analyzing the requests for Impeachment of the members of the Supreme Court of Justice. We will do so in full compliance with the National Constitution, the regulations of the Chamber of Deputies of the Nation and the regulations of the Impeachment Commission “, they stated in a press release.
The deputies announced that they will promote “a deep debate, with arguments, away from all chicanery and petty interest” and they specified: “We will study in depth decisions made by the Supreme Court and their implications for the division of powers, federalism and the functioning of the institutions”.
Likewise, the legislators called on all the blocks that make up the Impeachment Committee “to give an intense discussion, from our relative truths, facing Argentine society.” The process, according to parliamentary sources, could begin in the week of January 23 and would require between three and four months of debate.
In addition, the sources indicated that the process will be focused on the investigation into the actions of the highest court in relation to the Council of the Magistracy and the claim of the City of Buenos Aires for the co-participation funds.
In contrast, yesterday, the national table of Together for Change (JxC) warned that it will participate in the debate, but will not give a quorum to move forward with the process of removal of the Court in Congress, while it will not support any project that the The Executive Branch sends Parliament “while this outrage continues” against the highest court.
In this sense, the national deputy for the FdT, Leopoldo Moreau, who is a member of the Impeachment Committee, described as “very serious” the position of JxC in refusing to deal with bills that the Executive sends to Congress until the bill is withdrawn. request for impeachment to the Supreme Court of Justice because it is “announcing that they are going to paralyze” the Legislative Branch.
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This morning, the spokesperson for the Presidency, Gabriela Cerruti, confirmed to telam that the national government will convene extraordinary sessions of Congress for the second half of January, as had been announced, to deal with the impeachment request to the Supreme Court and other projects.
In this way, the official denied changes in the deadlines that the Government set for the extraordinary call, and referred to the information she provided last Thursday, when she told Casa Rosada that President Alberto Fernández wanted “times to be as brief as possible” in relation to the processing of the request for impeachment of the members of the Supreme Court of Justice.
Once the text is presented by the deputies, the project will be valid for three years and does not fall with the renewal of the body, that is, if the ruling party obtains an opinion by simple majority but it cannot take it to the venue this year because it does not achieve both regulatory third parties, it could insist later if it gathers the wills that are necessary.
