Political journalist Claudio Mardones reported for Fontevecchia modefor net tv Y RadioProfile (FM 101.9), on the possible start of the impeachment against members of the Supreme Court of Justice promoted by alberto fernández
January 26 is the date set for the start of the work of the impeachment commissionchaired by carolina gallardo in the lower house. The commission is made up of 31 members, of which 16 son of front of allhaving its own majority to guarantee its operation and even dictate.
After obtaining the opinion in commissions, if the proposal were raised to the precinct, would start the “hottest” stage of the conflict, with the ruling party having to fight to obtain two thirds of the chamber to give it effect, which for now is seen as highly improbable. The Chamber of Deputies would play the role of the “accusing” instance, and the Senate that of “judgemental”.
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The opinion that could achieve officialism in commissions It has a duration of three years, being a special opinion, derived from the special regulation of the commission.
The extraordinary session of the congress starts next Monday. As the dates are defined and what will be the agenda is known, some proposals have begun to emerge that surely will have an impact on the political scene.
is off the record It transpired that the United States Department of State is uncomfortable about the possible advance of the impeachment trial to the Court. The data was released through La Nación and Clarín. According to reports, They asked to “respect democratic institutions and the division of powers”.
“Respect democracy”: The United States disapproved of the impeachment of the Government against the Supreme Court
The embassy, led by Marc Stanley, had already sent some similar signals in this regard, through the Chamber of Commerce of the United States in Argentina (Amcham), one of the most important lobbying arms of the embassy.
On September 22, Amcham published a statement to repudiate the expansion of the Court, a project promoted by a group of Peronist governors that proposed expand to 25 members the judicial body.
Even before the president announced the request for impeachment, on December 23, the Amcham spoke of a “institutional breakdown of the republican system”, and strangely that the request for impeachment jeopardizes the legal order upheld by the National Constitution.
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On January 10, the founder of the Civic Coalition, Elisa Carrió, insisted on the dangers that imply, for the inter-American system, the progress of the impeachment trial against the Court. We are facing a series of proposals to support the judges of the Supreme Court who They don’t just come from the oppositionbut also from the US embassy and the US State Department.
On the other hand, in the last few hours it has emerged that the president would not you agree with expanding the court through a DNU, nor with the proposal to reform the Council of the Magistracy, both proposals supported by Kirchnerism.
Both proposals have not been refuted by the president, but by Spokespersons of the Casa Rosada that laid bare a new internal difference in the Frente de Todos, within the framework of the “hot sand” that represents the judicial debate that Argentine politics has undergone since December of last year.
FM J.L.
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