The ruling party called a session for this Thursday in the Senate with the aim of approving the court expansiona measure that is driven by Cristina Kirchner in the framework of his confrontation with justice, which worsened with the dispute over the formation of the Council of the Judiciary and the accusation of the prosecutor Diego Luciani against the vice president in the Vialidad case.
After several days of internal lobbying, Kirchnerism finally decided to modify the original project, which raised the number of judges of the highest court to 25, and will agree to reduce it to 15. With this change, among others that will be introduced to the opinion when it is discussed on the floor, it will be able to reach the votes it needed to be able to send it for review to the Chamber of Deputies, where the project has an uncertain destiny given the volatile relationship of forces that exists in that body.
The will of the ruling party to take the issue to the precinct It was advanced yesterday morning by the head of the Frente de Todos bloc, José Mayans (Formosa), to the parliamentary leaders of Together for Change, according to official spokespersons.
“We are not going to give a quorum,” anticipated his rejection Luis Naidenoff (Formosa), president of the radical caucus. It was the first of a cataract of rejections from the main opposition coalition.
The confirmation of the call came a few hours later, with the decree that calls for a session for 2:30 p.m. this Thursday and that also includes the specifications of the three judges nominated for the controversial Federal Chamber of Commander Luis Piedrabuena (Santa Cruz) and that have the rejection of the opposition. One of them is Marcelo Bersanelli, who served as Cristina Kirchner’s lawyer in a proceeding ordered by the late judge Claudio Bonadio.
The project that will be submitted for discussion is the one promoted by the Peronist governors, which raises the composition of the court to 25 members. However, the opinion signed almost three months ago, on June 29, would undergo modifications in the enclosure and will end up approving one with a conformation of 15 members, according to legislative sources from the Front of All.
With this concession, Kirchnerism will reach the majority it needs to approve the expansion of the Court, since it will add the support of Adolfo Rodriguez Saa (San Luis), which refused to vote on the project agreed upon by the Peronist leaders with Cristina Kirchner, considering the proposed number of magistrates to be excessive and because at no time did it establish that it would be made up of one judge for each province, as its masterminds maintained when They presented it in the upper house in mid-June.
In addition, with the change in integration, Kirchnerism would also be able to add the votes of Alberto Weretilneck (Together We Are Río Negro), author of a project that raised the number of members of the Court to 16, and of the speaker Clara Vega (La Rioja) who, like Rodríguez Saá, questioned the number of magistrates proposed by the governors.
as anticipated THE NATIONA few days after the failed assassination attempt against Cristina Kirchner, the ultra sector of the ruling party that responds to the vice president swore to advance with its own legislative agenda.
Since the ruling on the governors’ project was signed at the end of June, Kirchnerism has seen several of its attempts to approve the project frustrated. The refusal of Rodríguez Saá, Weretilneck and Vega had become an insurmountable obstacle for the plans of hard-line Kirchnerism.
For this reason, and after several weeks of dialogue, the vice president ended up giving her green light to modify the project with the aim of gathering the number of votes that would allow her to approve the expansion of the Court.
The changes began to be discussed on Tuesday night, at a meeting of the Frente de Todos interbloc in which Rodríguez Saá once again raised his refusal to accept a Court of 25 judges, but in which he showed his willingness to change his position. if it was accepted to promote an integration with fewer magistrates.
Before the governors burst in with their proposal, designed to put pressure on the highest court that must rule on the claim of the City of Buenos Aires for the co-participation funds that the ruling party took from it to finance the government of Axel Kicillof, the ruling party discussed three expansion proposals. One by Rodríguez Saá, who returned to the nine members of the 90s; one of the Kirchnerist Silvia Sapag, with 15 judges; and Weretilneck’s, 16.
After some setbacks, Kirchnerism managed to sign opinion in the Committee on Constitutional Affairs to a package of initiatives that seek to modify, to facilitate its use, the laws that regulated the popular consultation and initiative.
These are two mechanisms of direct democracy that the most radicalized sector of the ruling party intends to use as way to avoid the discomfort of achieving parliamentary majorities that are elusive, especially after last year’s electoral defeat, to Kirchnerism.
The projects with an opinion were presented by the ultra-kirchnerists Oscar Grilli (Neuquen) and Juliana Di Tullio (Buenos Aires) and by the Peronist Guillermo Snopek (Jujuy), president of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs.
Now, the initiatives were in a position to be discussed by the Upper House starting next week, once the seven days established by the regulations that must mediate between the signing of the opinion and its debate in the enclosure are completed.