Sunday, January 8, 2023 | 10:15 a.m.
The Front of All (FdT) of the Chamber of Deputies is getting ready to start the impeachment process against the judges of the Supreme Court of Justice that was promoted by President Alberto Fernández and several governors, and the ruling party will ask that they be called to testify the magistrates of the highest court.
According to the regulations, once the investigation has begun with a simple majority, the commission will request documentation from the Justice and will call the accused magistrates, who can, however, excuse themselves from testifying and also summon other witnesses.
However, the ruling party has enough votes to approve the opening of the summary and issue an opinion, once the investigation process is finished.
Then he will have at least two months to carry out the process and look for possible parliamentary agreements that allow him to add wills to give continuity to the process.
In this sense, Martínez assured that “more and more consensus” will be achieved as progress is made in the impeachment trial against the members of the Supreme Court.
“We are going to proceed seriously, with arguments and without chicanes. As we progress, I assure you that there will be more and more consensus in the decision of the president and the governors,” said the legislator from Santa Fe.
The commission, chaired by Gaillard, has 31 members: 16 from the FdT, 14 from Together for Change (JxC) and 1 from the Federal Interbloc, Alejandro ‘Topo’ Rodríguez.
The pro-government bench awaits the call for extraordinary sessions of Congress to be sent from the Executive Branch to begin the debate on this removal process and other projects that the Government proposes to debate in Parliament.
Both the representatives of the opposition interblock and the Buenos Aires legislator have already anticipated that they will not support the text promoted by the president and the governors.
In fact, between next Monday and Tuesday, the document with the grounds against the Supreme Court judges, which President Alberto Fernández delivered to the head of the block of FdT deputies, Germán Martínez, and to the head of the Impeachment Committee , Carolina Gaillard, will have to become a draft resolution to start the process in the lower house.
In any case, and due to the fact that Congress is in recess, for the commission to become operational, the Executive Branch must call extraordinary meetings through a DNU and set an agenda that includes the debate on the issue so that the commission can work.
Once the request for impeachment against the four members of the Supreme Court (President Horacio Rosatti; Vice President Carlos Rosenkrantz; Juan Carlos Maqueda and Ricardo Lorenzetti) has been entered, the members of the Impeachment Committee must decide whether to open the investigation or if they reject it “in limine”.
Although the FdT has a majority to open an investigation and issue an opinion in the Impeachment Committee to approve this process in the compound, it needs two thirds of the members present.
Source: Telam
