The bloc of senators from the Frente de Todos of the province of Buenos Aires asked the members of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation on Tuesday “a gesture of institutional responsibility” and that they “grant the Congress of the Nation a reasonable term to sanction a new law of the Council of the Judiciary”.
In a statement released this Tuesday, pro-government legislators from Buenos Aires referred to the decision of the president of the highest court, Horacio Rosatti, to take over as head of the Judicial Council.
The pro-government senators from Buenos Aires considered that the modification of the structure and composition of the Council and the assumption of Rosatti were “an act of extreme institutional arrogance, which de facto suspends the understanding and balance between the highest powers of the State” and that the President of the Court assumed “legislative powers that are expressly prohibited to the Judiciary.”
“Such behavior not only violates the independence of powers but also grants the Court, and its president in particular, a power that exceeds its constitutional role,” added the document, which recalls that Rosatti was appointed by decree of former President Mauricio Macri and appointed as President of the Court by his own vote.
From the Bloc of Senators of the FdT of the PBA we express our concern about the institutional abuse carried out by the Supreme Court regarding the formation of the Council of the Magistracy and we demand a reasonable term to sanction a new law. pic.twitter.com/89gNF2agbf
— Senators and Senators Front of Tod☀s – PBA (@SenadoFDT_BA) April 19, 2022
“After delaying the file for 6 years and having 1,577 days to study the constitutionality of the formation of the Judicial Council, the Court granted the National Congress a ridiculous period of 120 days to sanction a new law,” they said.
In this regard, they added that “once said term expired, and instead of extending the period for Congress to reach the necessary consensus for a new law, the Court chose to reestablish the law repealed in 2006 and provoke a crisis of enormous institutional gravity.” .
In this sense, the legislators required “the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation that in a gesture of institutional responsibility grants the Congress of the Nation a reasonable term to sanction a new law of the Council of the Magistracy, the bill already has half sanction of the Senate of the Nation “.
They pointed out that in these circumstances “it is important that all the affected institutions publicly manifest themselves for an institutional solution.”
The legislators argued that the Argentines aspire to the institutions “arising from the legislative debate as appropriate, without interference from other powers of the State that do not hold said power.”
“The Council of the Judiciary requires a law from the National Congress that deepens the democratization of the Judiciary”they concluded.
