Former President Mauricio Macri supported the Supreme Court ruling on Wednesday that suspended the elections in Tucumán and San Juan. Added to this, he disqualified “the government’s reaction” to the sentence, which he thought originated since “they do not tolerate a state power that limits them.” Along these lines, he criticized the conduct of the ruling party and called it “undemocratic.”
“As always, one of the most depressing issues in these episodes is the reaction of the Government and, especially, of President (Alberto) Fernández. Do not tolerate that a state power places limits on themalthough his constitutional work is precisely that”, Macri began the letter published on his Facebook account. In this regard, he opined that the criticism is not limited to the ruling, but rather “criticizes the very legitimacy of the Court to decide”, at the same time that He repudiated the conduct “of the president and the government coalition” for being “undemocratic”.
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The leader and founder of the PRO defended the decision of the Justice because he considers that it “sets a limit to the abuse of power” in the two provinces governed by the Frente de Todos, to which accused of having “feudal” efforts. “This decision places a limit on the abuse of power in provinces whose government system has been described with the metaphor of ‘feudal’, due to the almost absolute power that the governors accumulate,” he said. In this sense, in both cases the Justicialista Party has been in power for two decades (20 years in San Juan and 24 in Tucumán).
The former president makes sure leave Jujuy out of that characterization, which is governed by Radicalism, the PRO’s partner party in Together for Change. “Among those provinces, of course, I do not include Jujuy, where there is political alternation and its governor, as we saw in the elections the other day, did not try to perpetuate himself in power,” he said.
His clarification is given after the internal controversy generated by his statements on Monday when dismissed the importance of last Sunday’s elections (La Rioja, Misiones and Jujuy) for considering that “they are not representatives” and that they were provinces managed by “feudal systems” to which “liberty” was already going to arrive.
The former president stated that the legitimacy of the Supreme Court cannot be questioned because “he is the arbiter of our life together”, in an explanation that he made with soccer metaphors. “(The Court) It is the one that applies the rules of the game that we play every day. We can disagree with its rulings, as we can doubt if a hand was penal or not. But we cannot question the legitimacy of the referee or stop the game to ask them to put another. Without the authority of the referee we are left without rules in football, you cannot play”.
Along these lines, he concluded the message by noting that “without the independence and legitimacy of the Supreme Court, we ran out of rules in politics and in our coexistenceand you can’t play either.”
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