Prior to the protest that agricultural producers will carry out in Plaza de Mayo, federal judge Ricardo Bustos Fierro agreed to analyze a collective lawsuit by the Argentine Rural Society and the Rural Society of Villa María (Córdoba), which requests to annul the withholdings on exports agricultural.
“Promoting amparo action against the National State, Executive Power of the Nation, in order to declare the unconstitutionality and illegitimacy of the collection of export duties on agricultural products; as well as any regulatory provision in which that tax claim is intended to be supported, and it is sentenced to cease its collection, instructing the AFIP to cease its claim and collection, ”indicates the file.
Judge Bustos Fierro, “firm against the people”
It is not the first time that Bustos Fierro has made headlines in the media with rulings linked to the defense of the most concentrated interests. He began his career as a prosecutor during the dictatorship, accusing the leaders of Cordovan radicalism of being “subversive” and achieved national fame, already as a judge, when he considered Carlos Menem’s re-election attempt to be constitutional.
It also had rulings against the popular election of the members of the Judicial Council. One of his last milestones was the acceptance of a precautionary measure presented by the company Telecom, of the Clarín Group, against the Government’s decision to declare essential services to the Internet, cell phones and telephony. That is why he was chosen by the rural leaders of Córdoba to when looking for the “unconstitutionality” of the withholdings.
A presentation to defund the State
The presentation of the ruralists maintains that since January 1 of this year, the application of export duties is unconstitutional. The argument is that when the 2022 Budget was blocked in the National Congress, the Government was unable to extend the economic emergency of 2019, which empowers the Executive to apply export withholdings.
In this framework, the Federal Court of Córdoba 1 admitted the collective action and granted a period of 30 days for the Federal Administration of Public Revenues (AFIP) and the national government make a report “circumstanced about the background and basis of the measure challenged by the plaintiff.”