The national executive published in the Official Gazette the Decree of call for extraordinary sessions from January 23 to February 28along with an agenda that includes 27 projects in addition to the request for judgment to members of the Supreme Court of Justice, and an initiative to increase the number of members of the Supreme Court of Justice.
President Alberto Fernández expressed the intention to accelerate the judgment political against the president of the Body, Horacio Rosatti and the ministers Ricardo Lorenzetti, Carlos Rosenkrantz and Juan Carlos Maquedaunder the accusation of “bad performance and partiality.”
In the package of projects that the executive included in the call, in addition to the request for judgment political, There are initiatives related to scientific and technological promotion, the creation of National Universities and the much mentioned social security system. In the announcement, presidential spokeswoman Gabriela Cerruti advised the opposition “that it not be as irresponsible as it has been”and can reconsider and sit in the place of democratic dialogue that is the National Congress.
The sector of Together for Change (JxC) announced the decision ofe not addressing the initiatives that the government intends, “if the request for impeachment is not excluded from the agenda”. Cerruti went even deeper in his exhortation to the opposition by claiming that they “do not extort the government and society”, pretending to deal “only with issues that interest them”.
The grounds of the trial request are based on article 53 of the National Constitution, which provides that the Chamber of Deputies “exercise the right to accuse before the Senate the president, vice president, the head of the cabinet of ministers and the members of Supreme Court”in causes for poor performance or crime in the exercise of their functions.
