A good part of the deputies of the Frente de Todos and the opposition are on vacation. Some in their provinces and others on the Atlantic coast. However, WhatsApp groups that had been inactive since the holiday greetings began to revive.
The announcement of the order impeachment to the members of the Supreme Court Justice on behalf of the National Executive mobilized the blocs, especially those legislators that make up the Impeachment Committee. everyone starts to Outline your strategies.
The Frente de Todos has 16 deputies in the Commission, which ensures the simple majority. Among these legislators there are several of weight within the bloc, such as German Martinez -the head of the bench-, leopard moreauHugo Yasky, Vanessa Siley, Rodolfo Tahiladethe camporista Marcos Cleri, and of course, the president of the commission, Caroline Gaillard.
“We are waiting for the formalized document. The intention is to do a good job for what we are going to do everything that article 90 of the regulation allowsso we are going to be jealous of its application,” said a senior source from the block.
The first order from Casa Rosada arrived before the document. The Executive has already informed the legislators that they want the process is “summary” and that does not extend “for more than four months”.
The regulation establishes that the process has a term in commission of 60 days and that, once it enables the complaint, a summary is initiated that includes the possibility of witness summons, the request for information from federal judges, the request to a judge to order the interception of telephone conversations and the statement of the defendants and different witnesses. Once the opinion is obtained, the deputies They will seek to take him quickly to the compound to fulfill the request of Balcarce 50.
In the FdT they understand that the Commission is the stage not only to develop the arguments that drive the trial but also the actions in it -and its result- It can serve to add wills in the enclosure. “If we do a good job in the commission, if we manage to understand the objective and where our criticism is focused, we mark the ground and we will gradually gain consensus with the work in the commission,” they detailed.
As regards the parliamentary strategy, the ruling party began to outline it and is determined that it be understood that it is a political trial. “What is evaluated are political behaviors; penal or criminal elements feed back into political evaluations. Impeachment takes criminal elements and transforms it into a political assessment of what performance is.”
On the side of Together for Change there are also “heavyweights” of the parliamentary structure. The vice president of the commission is Juan Manuel Lopezwho is also president of the Civic Coalition bloc; Mario Negrihead of the block of the UCR, Omar De Marchifirst vice president of the Chamber and head of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta’s campaign in the interior of the country, Álvaro González, also a Larretista, Carla Carrizo from Evolución, the “lilita” Paula Oliveto and the PRO’s benchmark in judicial issues, Pablo Tonelli.
“We are starting to talk. There are many deputies on vacation so for now they are contacts through the chats to begin to outline what the strategy will be. Until they call the commission, we will wait,” explained a source from Together for Change.
What they are waiting for in PvC is for the FdT to move the pieces as for know if they are going to make appointments to the members of the Court or the Buenos Aires minister of justice on leave, Marcelo D´Alessandro.
The one who has already defined his position for the commission is the “loose”, the deputy who is not part of the Together for Change bloc or the Frente de Todos. The president of the Federal interblock, Alejandro “Topo” Rodriguez.
“Four months ago I was the only opponent of the Commission who spoke out against impeachment President Alberto Fernández for considering that the foundations of the accusation were not solid. Now I will do the same. The fundamentals are weak and It is intended to use an extreme resource, such as impeachment, to make politics lessr”, said the legislator to infobae.
His vote will leave the opposition close to being able to cancel the initiative, since in total they would add up to 15 negative votes. However, the ruling party has secured the vote of the 16 members of its bloc, so it is expected that within a period of no more than 60 days, the impeachment project will be ready to be brought to the venue.
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