The Government came to the crossroads due to the suspension of the elections in San Juan and Tucumán, agreed for next Sunday. President Alberto Fernández assured that it is a “clear interference” in the democratic process.
“In a clear interference in the democratic process and the autonomy of the provinces, the Supreme Court aligned itself today with the opposition to anticipate what was expected as possible futures of the triumph of Peronism in the provinces of San Juan and Tucumán next Sunday. ”the statement began.
Then, he recalled the statements of Mauricio Macri in the last hours, about the “electoral defeat of the Macrista right and the self-styled libertarians” in Jujuy, Misiones and La Rioja on Sunday, May 7. “He accused the Argentine provinces and their elected governors and citizens of being part of a feudal remora,” Fernández added regarding the former president.
“This is an absolutely contemptuous concept towards the provinces of our country and towards the essence of Argentine democracy that is celebrating forty years of validity,” he later stated.
After describing Macri’s words as “sad concepts” for whom the nickname “denier of the federalism that governs us” was kept, he mentioned that it is “clearly a preview of the ruling that we just met.” Therefore, he met with the governors Sergio Uñac and Juan Manzur to accompany the provinces in their “democratic claims.”
“It is imperative that the National Court of Justice stop meddling in the institutionality of the Argentine provinces and let the people vote. It is the people who must choose without interference of any kind. Judicial meddling in electoral processes deeply damages democratic coexistence and dangerously alters the institutionality that we preserve so much”, Alberto Fernández closed.
