Alberto Fernández delivered his petition for impeachment to the president of the Supreme Court and the other members of the highest court of justice.
The President of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, delivered this Wednesday his request for impeachment to the president of the Supreme Court and to the remaining members of the highest court of justice before the pro-government deputies Germán Martínez and Carolina Gaillard.
As reported by the Presidency, the president summoned Martínez, president of the block of deputies of the Frente de Todos (Peronist), and Gaillard, president of the Political Judgment Commission, to present them with the document that he is promoting together with 11 governors so that they “begin their soon legislative treatment”.
Although it was initially reported that 12 of the 24 governors of the country supported the impeachment of the members of the Supreme Court In one more chapter of the political tension between the Executive Power and the highest court, there were 11, since, according to the local press, the one from Entre Ríos (northeast) abandoned the project.
Fernández had advanced on January 1 the intention to promote the impeachment of the president of the Supreme Court, Horacio Rosatti, for, as he indicated this Tuesday, “poor performance in his duties.”
Along with the governors, they also requested that the impeachment process begin for the rest of the members of the highest court -Carlos Rosenkrantz, Juan Carlos Maqueda and Ricardo Lorenzetti- for “some acts with different degrees of responsibility.”
The political trial requires the intervention of the Chamber of Deputies and Senators with special majorities of two thirds of its members, with which neither the ruling party nor the opposition have, which rejected the initiative of the Executive.
However, the Impeachment Committee of Deputies can initiate the debate and an investigation.
A recent ruling by the Supreme Court forced the national State to restore funds to the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, governed by the conservative Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, for a value of 2.95% of the so-called federal co-participation -compared to the current 2.32 -.
Despite the fact that Fernández initially decided not to comply with the ruling, he later announced that he would pay the capital governmentunder the mandate of one of the main opposition candidates for the next presidential elections, with bonds, which was described as “cheating” by him.
In the president’s opinion, the Supreme Court ruling is an economic injection into Rodríguez Larreta’s political career in an election year.
In this context, in the last days of 2022, allegedly compromising conversations between a capital official, Marcelo D’Alessandro, with an adviser to the president of the Supreme Court, were leaked, which led the politician to announce this Tuesday that he was taking leave of office. to resolve your “situation”.
The differences between the Executive and the Supreme Court also cover decisions relating to the composition of the Council of the Magistracy -the body that appoints, sanctions and removes judges-, in a context in which the vice president, Cristina Fernández, faces various cases for alleged facts crimes that occurred during their terms (2007-2015).
In one of them, on December 6, the former president was sentenced for fraudulent administration to 6 years in prison and perpetual disqualification from holding public office, a ruling that she decided to appeal.