President Alberto Fernández announced that he will promote, together with the governors, a “political trial” of the president of the Supreme Court, Horacio Rosatti, “so that his conduct in the performance of his duties be investigated”, due to the issuance of a precautionary measure in favor of the City of Buenos Aires on funds for that district.
“I have summoned the governors who accompanied the National State in its petition against the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires so that, together, we promote the impeachment of the president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation Horacio Rosatti,” said the president. through a letter, which was spread by the Casa Rosada.
He added that “we will also require that the conduct of the remaining members of the highest court be investigated.”
“Upon assuming my mandate, I swore to observe and have the Constitution observed as far as it depends on me,” Fernández continued in his letter.
“I have summoned the governors who accompanied the National State in its petition against the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires so that, together, we promote the impeachment of the president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation Horacio Rosatti”
Thus, he stated: “I must prevent the Council of the Magistracy from continuing to be manipulated with unusual jurisprudential interpretations that allow the Judiciary to meddle in the decisions of the National Congress”.
And he maintained that it is his duty to “promote actions when the federal system is put into crisis through an unnecessary precautionary measure and the improper proposal of an autonomous city.”
Ruling favorable to Larreta
In December, the Supreme Court of Justice ordered the national government to pay the city of Buenos Aires 2.95% of the mass of co-participating taxes, giving rise to the claim that the administration led by Horacio Rodríguez Larreta had initiated.
In addition, Fernández affirmed that in recent months there has been “an inadmissible advance of the Nation’s Judicial Power over the other powers of Argentina” and assured “various publications that have never been contradicted, have exposed what I have been warning for a long time : the scandalous link between part of politics and Justice”.
Last week, alleged chats were reported between the Minister of Justice and Security of the City of Buenos Aires, Marcelo D’Alessandro, and the Director General of the Supreme Court, Silvio Robles, where they discussed the co-participation ruling and the integration of the Council of the Magistracy, among other issues.
Thus, the President warned that “The dialogues between judicial officials and opposition politicians in which decisions are anticipated and political grounds are recommended to be used when judicially deciding cases with undoubted institutional significance, have been impudently exposed to the general astonishment”.
Likewise, he affirmed that he ordered the Minister of Justice, Martín Soria, to “promote the pertinent criminal actions to investigate the alleged acts of corruption that would involve officials from the city of Buenos Aires with business contractors from that autonomous state.”
Among the leaked chats, there is also a conversation between D’Alessandro and businessman Marcelo Violante, who managed the City’s towing and hauling service.
