The Political Trial Commission of the Chamber of Deputies began this Thursday the analysis of the files to decide whether to open the removal process to the members of the Supreme Court of Justice, based on a project that is promoted by President Alberto Fernández and several governors for considering that the magistrates of the highest court incurred in “bad performance” in several of their rulings.
The commission chaired by the deputy of the Frente de Todos Caroline Gaillard (Entre Ríos) meets from after 11 o’clock and with the presence of the opposition blocks, to begin to analyze the files that they raise the political trial of Horacio Rosatti -president of the highest court- Carlos Rosenkrantz, Juan Carlos Maqueda and Ricardo Lorenzetti.
At the beginning of the meeting, the FdT deputy specified that on Thursday, February 2, the members of the commission will receive the authors of the projects, while on Thursday, February 9, the admissibility report will be analyzed to see if, with the evidence presented arises if it is feasible to advance in the analysis of the evidence.
“I am going to adjust to the Constitution and the regulations of the commission. This is not a criminal trial, we do not have jurisdictional powers that do have justice,” said the pro-government deputy when opening the meeting in room 1 of the Lower House Annex.
He specified that “once the complaints filed are analyzed and after analyzing the files, we are going to proceed to listen to the authors of the projects so that they can explain, after which the admissibility report will be discussed to move forward and open the opening of the evidence to open the process”.
Within this framework, Gaillard affirmed that “if admissibility is favorable, we would be in a position to approve the admissibility that would go to the venue” and read the summary of each of the 14 files that are going to be analyzed.
The ruling party has the necessary number in the impeachment commission to sign the bill’s opinion, but not with the two-thirds majority that is required to approve the text in the lower house.
The intention of the ruling party is to begin today with the analysis of the files and define the work scheme, since the first step of the commission will be to establish whether the requests for impeachment are admissible and there the ruling party has a majority to impose its criteria.
Later, It is estimated that in 15 days the opening stage of the trial will beginwhich will last until the end of March, approximately, to collect evidence related to the requests for prosecution of the ministers of the Court.
The issue was included in the call for special sessions promoted by the Executive Power from January 23 to February 28.
