The presidents considered that the highest court incurred in “poor performance of its functions” and denounced “partiality in its rulings”
For iProfessional
01/03/2023 – 4:45 p.m.
After meeting with the president Alberto Fernandez in Casa Rosada, the allied governors the Government gave a press conference in which they announced the signing of the impeachment request against members of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (CSJN) and assured in relation to the ruling that they returned co-participating funds to the City.
“The provinces feel affected,” they indicated and considered that the highest court incurred in “poor performance of its functions”for which they denounced “partiality” in their decisions.
The provincial leaders began to arrive at the Government House minutes after 10, with Jorge Capitanich and Ricardo Quintela being the first to arrive. The President entered Balcarce 50 after 10:30, to lead a meeting with the former CEO of Syngenta, Antonio Aracre, who will take office on February 1 as chief adviser to the Presidency of the Nation.
Governors Jorge Capitanich (Chaco), Ricardo Quintela (La Rioja), Axel Kicillof (Buenos Aires), Sergio Ziliotto (La Pampa), Osvaldo Jaldo (Tucumán), Gildo Insfrán (Formosa) were present at the meeting at the government headquarters. , Gustavo Melella (Tierra del Fuego) and Gerardo Zamora (Santiago del Estero). Also, the lieutenant governors Eugenio Quiroga (Santa Cruz) and Rubén Dusso (Catamarca). Meanwhile, Alicia Kirchner (Santa Cruz) and Raúl Jalil (Catamarca) -who sent their seconds- connected by videoconference. Juan Schiaretti (Cordoba) and Omar Perotti (Santa Fe) did not provide their support.
After the meeting, Capitanich led a press conference in which he stated: “Together with governors and deputy governors we have had a meeting both in person and via videoconference with the President, the Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers and the Secretary General of the Presidency with the aim of promoting the signing of a request for impeachment within the framework of the Article 53 of the National Constitution by virtue of the poor performance of the functions of the four judges of the CSJN”.
Governors: why they ask the Supreme Court for impeachment
The document finally achieved the signatures of 12 governors. Gildo Insfrán, Axel Kicillof, Gerardo Zamora, Sergio Ziliotto, Osvaldo Jaldo, Jorge Capitanich, Ricardo Quintela, Alicia Kirchner and Gustavo Melella, were joined by Gustavo Bordet (Entre Ríos) and Mariano Arcioni (Chubut).
Jorge Capitanich, governor of Chaco, is one of those who supports the President’s request
Next, Capitanich explained that the decision, made with the support of the majority of the provincial leaders, is based on a “multiplicity of facts“, which range” from the violation of the Public Ethics Law to poor performance based on decisions that have to do with, in a timely manner, the declaration of unconstitutionality of Law 26,088 after more than 16 years of validity and the restitution of law 24,937″.
“We observe a clear bias, which means that the failures observed are to favor a political bias“, the Chaco governor insisted and warned: “Argentines cannot be calm in terms of safeguarding life, property, honor and freedom with members of the CSJN who clearly and forcefully violate the Constitution and above all the principles that are essential from the republican principle and federal government. We, the Argentine provinces, feel victimized by the whimsical allocation of resources, without any type of foundation or argument.”
The petition of the governors of the provinces includes the impeachment against Carlos Rosenkrantz, Juan Carlos Maqueda Y Ricardo Lorenzetti and for a parliamentary matter, they ask the bloc of deputies from the ruling party to promote the impeachment project.
At the end of the meeting, which lasted more than two hours, Axel Kicillof detailed that “Tomorrow the request for impeachment will be presented“, which – he indicated – is a procedure that “has no precedent in history: a President and most of the provinces accompanying something that has to do with the division of powers.”
