Horacio Rossatti, president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation and of the Council of the Magistracy, took an oath to the new 11 of the aforementioned Council of the Magistracy, a body that proposes judges and has the power to sanction them in the due case.
That’s how they stayed (for the Supreme Court) incorporated Hugo Galderisi and Guillermo Tamarit to represent the academic and scientific sector; the lawyers Miguel Piedecasas, Héctor Recalde, Jimena de la Torre and María Fernanda Vázquez; Diego Barroetaveña, Alberto Lugones, María Alejandra Provítola and Agustina Díaz Cordero were also sworn in to represent the Magistracy of the organism and, finally, Gerónimo Ustarroz for the National Executive Branch.
The oath took place without an audience, but with special guests and relatives of those who swore. The other judges also participated. Supreme Court, Carlos Rosenkrantz, Juan Carlos Maqueda and Ricardo Lorenzetti. At approximately 10 in the morning, those who took the oath began to arrive and in just 20 minutes the swearing-in ended, in which no journalists participated.
Near noon, the Association of Magistrates prepared a toast for the new oaths with the judge counselors. The president of the association mentioned, Marcelo Gallo Tagle, attended along with the former judge, María Lilia Gómez Alonso de Díaz Cordero.
For his part, The Nation’s Chamber of Senators approved last Wednesday the decree appointing its new representatives for the 2022-2026 section, in which the opposition did not participate because they disagreed with the new appointments to the Council of the Magistracy.
The Doñate controversy
Martín Doñate remained as the representative of the second parliamentary minority, a place that the PRO (Republican Proposal) claims should be occupied by Luis Juez. In fact, the body of the Supreme Court itself had said that this place belonged to the PRO senator.
A new response from the Court is expected. They can agree to take an oath to Doñate with the clarification that there is a legal case initiated by Luis Juez against that designation that will go to court.
