The Chamber of Deputies formalized this Friday the call for next Thursday at 1:00 p.m. of the Impeachment Committee, to decide whether to open an impeachment process against the members of the Supreme Court of Justice, promoted by President Alberto Fernández and governors.
The 31 members of the commission, chaired by deputy Carolina Gaillard (Frente de Todos-Entre Ríos), will meet in Room 1 of Annex A to start the first stage of the studywhich will conclude with the presentation of the trial admissibility project, possibly in the first half of February.
Then it will start second stage, of evidence collectionto see if finally the deputies rule so that the project is in a position to be analyzed by the plenary.
In this scenario, the ruling party has the votes in the commission to start the process, but In principle, it would not achieve the two-thirds necessary to advance in the compound with the accusatory opinion.
The topic was included in the call for extraordinary sessions -which will take place between next Monday, February 23 and 28-, as well as the project on the composition of the Council of the Magistracy and the one that establishes the numerical expansion of the highest court.
The text to initiate the political trial of the four members of the Supreme Court, based on the document promoted by President Alberto Fernández and governors, formally entered the Chamber of Deputies last Friday.
The project includes the arguments of the accusation and alternatives to advance in the investigation, including several proposals for the summons of various witnesses.
The initiative, presented by the FdT deputy, Eduardo Valdés, together with other ruling party legislators, it consists of 410 pages and proposes summoning the four judges of the highest court -Horacio Rosatti, Carlos Rosenkrantz, Juan Carlos Maqueda and Ricardo Lorenzetti- to appear before the Impeachment Committee of the lower house that will carry out the investigation.
Together for Change advanced that will participate in the debate but will not give a quorum in the commissionby insisting that it is “an attack on the Court and on the institutions” by the Government.
Meanwhile, yesterday the entry to the commission of Ricardo Herrera from La Rioja was made official as a replacement for Vanesa Massetani from Santa Fe, who gave up that place to her blockmate from the Frente de Todos for personal reasons.
