Representatives of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), of productive and service sectors, and professionals from different parts of the country supported this Friday the initiative of the Front of All (FdT) to open an investigation into the conduct of the members of the Supreme Court of Justice, stating that impeachment “is an instance of democracy and not a privilege of impunity.”
“We make a special call to legislators to fully comply with their institutional and citizen obligation by carrying out the processes and instances established for development with full guarantees and without extortive pressure from clearly founded political trials,” they highlighted in a Note sent to the Impeachment Committee of the Chamber of Deputies.
In this sense, they pointed out that “it will be precisely a way to establish political tranquility and justice, with the conviction that our Homeland requires more equality and not accept inadmissible judicial, economic or social privileges.”
In the note, the entities and professionals indicated that they decided to express their position before the presentation “of an open letter, released by the press on January 19 on behalf of 500 businessmen and professionals, requiring legislators to desist from the attempt to impeach the judges members of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (CSJN)”.
“It will be precisely a way to establish political tranquility and justice, with the conviction that our Homeland requires more equality and not accept inadmissible judicial, economic or social privileges”
“We are astonished and disturbed by a letter that includes the dangerous use of arguments that detract from the checks and controls that the three powers established by the National Constitution mutually require permanently,” they stressed.
They add that “the writing of a letter by a minority of businessmen and professionals in our country that includes arguments that detract from what is established by our National Constitution causes us great concern.”
Signatories of the SME note
The note is signed by Raúl Hutín (Central of National Business Entities – CEEN), Marisa Duarte (Argentine Institute for Economic Development, IADE), Eduardo Barcesat (Constitutional Lawyer),
Francisco Dos Reis (Entrepreneur, CEEN), and Julián Moreno (Assembly of Small and Medium Entrepreneurs- APYME).
David Selser (General Confederation of Production, CGP), Juan Ciolli (San Martín Chamber of Small and Medium Enterprises, CAPYME-CEEN), Hernán Pini (General Confederation of Industry, CGI), Felisa Miceli (Economist, CIGES), Jorge Marchini (Economist, CEEN) and Federico Tonarelli (Argentine Federation of Self-Managed Workers (FACTA), among others.
In the note they affirmed that “respect for the division of powers cannot be synonymous with privilege” and said that “in countries with functioning democratic institutions, the Judiciary does not enjoy immunity and impunity distinctive of privileges and conduct.”
“Respect for the division of powers cannot be synonymous with privilege”
“In this sense, the request for impeachment of the members of the Supreme Court, is framed within the provisions of article 53 of the National Constitution (CN), being their complaint and request for promotion a power of every inhabitant of the Argentine Nation, and a duty for all public officials against hypotheses of poor performance or possible commission of crimes in the exercise of public function,” they warned in the text.
Likewise, they stressed that “it is therefore not possible to argue, without responsibility or grounds, that impunity for judges is essential for the existence and maintenance of private activity and job creation” that it is the “only way to reduce poverty “.
In the document they stated that “historical experience shows that, since the Judiciary is the only one with members for life, it is precisely the serious countries ‘in the eyes of the world’ that establish and enforce, without threats or false misrepresentations, their own equality Before the Law”.
“For now, they configure more than enough grounds for investigation and inquiry that high dignitaries of the Nation’s Judicial Power appropriate and exercise repeatedly, with ostensible demerit for the institutional framework and the democratic system (Art. 36 of the CN), their own faculties of the Legislative Power of the Nation (precedents Council of the Magistracy and CABA co-participation), or exercise health police powers usurping powers of the National Executive Power”.
