Presidential Government Alberto Fernandez and the Supreme Court collided like bullet trains. In a country that entered the election campaign early, an institutional crisis broke out, not independent of the economic turmoil that heralded the storms. The highest judicial authority for the executive branch “an open intervention in the democratic process and the autonomy of the provinces” Suspend elections in the states of Tucumán and San Juan next Sunday. According to the government, the highest court “united” with the right-wing opposition to “predict what would be expected as possible victories of Peronism” in both districts.
“They banned Cristina and now they want to ban the vote,” said Wado de Pedro, Minister of the Interior, comparing the Supreme Court’s measure with the first-degree criminal sentence of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in a controversial corruption case. They decided to be banned. restrict one’s right citizens and electing citizens and being electedDePedro guessed.
The friction between state forces is just a preview of what might happen in the face of the October elections, where the ruling party lost to the advance of the right, and the very right, according to polls. In the midst of a strong weakening of the presidential figure, they seek to capitalize on social unrest due to worsening living conditions.
Crisis analysts were not surprised. This Tuesday, one of the Supreme Court ministers, Horacio Rosatti, criticized the economic situation and said there was an “uncontrolled” currency issue that jeopardized the peso’s value against the dollar. Hours later, Rosatti and three other members of the tribunal, Juan Carlos Maqueda, Carlos Rosenkrantz and Ricardo Lorenzetti, accepted the opposition’s request to suspend the elections, which polls predicted victory in San Juan and Tucumán. Uñac and Juan Manzur. For Mario Negri of the Radical Civil Union, the Court halts attempts by state governors to be re-elected.compelling state constitutions to perpetuate themselvesHoracio Rodríguez Larreta, mayor of the city of Buenos Aires and presidential candidate for that area in the October elections, considered the measure taken by the supreme “a measure corresponding to a country that respects the law.”
The court had for some time held appeals against the fourth consecutive term of Uñac (one as deputy governor) and the fifth term of Manzur, who had previously served twice as deputy governor and twice as governor.
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The relationship between Supreme Court judges and the Government broke off months ago, to the point where members of the court were investigated by the House of Representatives. The executive branch spoke in this case “exceed”“dangerously changing the institutionalism we protect so much.”
In response, Fernández implied that the decision by the judges would be announced to the former president himself. Mauricio Macri In the face of recent electoral defeats in its territory in La Rioja and Misiones, these states’ “feudal apparatuses“According to national authorities, this” Definitely a derogatory term. to the provinces and to the core of Argentine democracy celebrating its forty years of validity. For Fernández, “the sad notions of a former president” constituted “a clear preview of the decision we have just learned.”
by portal online politics “It was unclear why the judges waited until the last moment to suspend the election. and when the State and parties have already spent significant resources organizing the elections”. Everything, he says, indicates that the judges “will eventually challenge the candidacy of Uñac and Manzur.”
At the same time, constitutionalist Andrés Gil Domínguez argued that “constitutionally”, the highest court has the power to dictate measures such as those taken this Tuesday. “The problem is the court’s political treatment of a valid legal instrument. Preemptively suspending the election of provincial authorities five days after its completion does severe damage to the Argentine democratic system and exposes the legal argument used in the crisis.”.