The Legislature of Jujuy will hold its fifth special session in which he will deal with the bill for the Declaration of the Need for the Partial Reform of the Constitution, promoted by Governor Gerardo Morales on September 12.
The debate will be in the premises of the Jujuy Parliament, which will be integrates with 44 deputiesof which the space The pro-government Front Cambia Jujuy gathers 31 votes in favor and will try to get the adhesion of at least one opposition deputy to obtain the necessary two-thirds that will allow it to advance with the modification of the Magna Carta.
In this framework, the positioning of the Jujuy PJ and its block of legislators, in addition to the space Together for Jujuyalso an opponent of the ruling party, who a priori they would reject the reformalthough that determination was not clearly anticipated by all of the PJ deputies.
“We have held the fourth meeting within the framework of the Justicialist Party Council and our opinion is that this is not the time to reform the Jujuy Constitution,” said the first vice president of the Jujuy PJ and former national senator Liliana Fellner.
In a press conference, asked if the PJ deputies will have freedom of decision, Fellner replied that “there is no freedom of action” and asserted: “When a party makes a decision, it is organic.”
The deputies of the Together for Jujuy group expressed their rejection of the partial reform of the Jujuy Constitution: “We are convinced that this reform is neither necessary nor urgent,” they considered.
“Today we oppose this attempt, it is not convenient because we observe that the governor could have raised it with the holding of the general elections in 2023 to clear up any doubts about a possible re-election, but this was not the case,” they stressed. .
During the day on Monday, Human Rights organizations of Jujuy, members of the Superior Court of Justice, part of the industrial sector and legal institutions appeared to give their opinion on the constitutional reform.
Both the Jujuy Political Prisoners Association and the group of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared of Jujuy strongly rejected the official initiative, considering that “it did not reach a broad debate in Jujuy society.”
“This issue of peace, order and justice cannot be possible if there is no popular participation, of social organizations and native peoples that really represent the community,” said Oscar Alfaro, a former political detainee, speaking before the legislators present.
They indicated that the possible reform “intends to legalize and give constitutional status to the repression against social referents, which the Executive power has been doing in collusion with the judicial and legislative power of Jujuy, subjugating the rights of the popular classes,” they considered.
The initiative announced by Morales, on September 12, seeks among 47 items to advance in restrictions for social protests, promotes the prohibition of pardon to those who commit crimes of corruption and highlights not modifying the clause regarding the non-re-election to governor .
If the project is approved, it is estimated that the election of constituents will take place on December 11, while the Convention will take place on the 15th of that month.
Social, union and political organizations called for mobilization this Tuesday to the vicinity of the Jujuy Legislature to continue the parliamentary discussion in opposition to the initiative.
