The Supreme Court was present at the Congress in the framework of the opening of the ordinary sessions of 2023 amid the controversy over the order of impeachment against its four members promoted by the Executive. Meanwhile, the president’s speech in front of Parliament made reference to the tensions that exist between the powers and the claims of Casa Rosada to the highest court, whose members he accused of “run over the republican institutions“.
President Alberto Fernández led this Wednesday the last speech of his first presidential term before the Legislative Assembly to open the 141st Period of Ordinary Sessions in the National Congress.
“Unfortunately, the actions of the members of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation led us to present a request for impeachment before the Chamber of Deputies,” the head of state pointed out in his extensive speech in which he dedicated a large part to criticizing the functioning of Argentine justice.
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The members of the Court resolved that, by virtue of an institutional obligation, it was necessary to attend the Congress despite the late invitation by the Presidency. To this end, the two members who gave the present and listened to the President’s criticisms are Horacio Rosatti and Carlos Rosenkrantz.
Alberto Fernández criticized the Justice but I am not talking about a ban
In this regard, the head of state recalled that as president he does “everything possible so that Argentine justice once again embraces the law and stop serving power factors persecuting those who represent popular thought”. Although he referred to the fact that Cristina Kirchner “is unjustly persecuted”, he did not speak of proscription.
In this way, Fernández implicitly referred to the legal cases against the Vice President, who, although she was acquitted in several of them, was sentenced in the first instance in the so-called Cause Road. To reinforce his argument, he cited the cases of the alleged lawfare against the brazilian president Lula da Silva and his Bolivian counterpart Evo Morales.
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“I was the one who was by Lula’s side when he was unjustly imprisoned, the one who was by Evo Morales’s side when a coup d’état wrested power from him, the one who was by Cristina’s side when is unfairly persecuted and the one who claims and does everything republicanly possible so that Justice once again embraces the law and stops serving power factors persecuting those who represent popular thought,” said Alberto Fernández.
On the other hand, at the beginning of his address, the President urged the Justice to promptly investigate the assassination attempt on Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. For her part, the Vice President was in charge of the formal rigors of the act and of receiving the president on the esplanade of the Legislative Palace.
Criticism of the Court for the co-participation of the City of Buenos Aires
“The meddling of Justice in budget execution is definitely inadmissible are political issues that cannot be judged and causes severe damage to the public accounts of the national state”
“Recent episodes in the dispute over national resources and their co-participation with our provinces made it clear which is the block of traditional interests that seek to consolidate the enormous asymmetries that still exist in Argentina,” Alberto Fernández stated.
“While many provinces need to carry out works that ensure services as essential as drinking water for their inhabitants, the Supreme Court of Justice assured the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires of co-participating resources that do not correspond to it, contrary to the current co-participation law. takes money from those who need it most and allocates those same resources to the most opulent city in the country”.
“Ethically, we are obliged to put an end to so much inequality and remove those who have been submerged in poverty due to the empire of policies that concentrate wealth with this centralist criterion that generates so much rejection within the country.”
“The co-participating resources are distributed according to the forms established by an agreement law that each of the Argentine provinces and the National State have signed. The Autonomous City of Buenos Aires is not part of that agreement. It has no rights over those resources. It must receive them from the National State when it transfers a service that it provided until then. This decision is part of the administrative management of the National Executive Power and cannot be replaced by another power of the Republic.”
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