The Impeachment Committee of the Chamber of Deputies will meet on Thursday, January 26 to resolve whether to open the impeachment process against the members of the Supreme Court promoted by President Alberto Fernández and governors.
Parliamentary sources confirmed to Télam that the intention of the ruling party is to convene for Thursday at 10 a.m. the commission, chaired by the national deputy of the Frente de Todos por Entre Ríos Carolina Gaillard, to analyze the files linked to the poor performance of the members of the maximum court.
The ruling party has the votes in the commission to start the process but would not achieve the necessary two-thirds to advance in the compound with the accusatory opinion.
The topic was included in the call for extraordinary sessions -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 impeachment of the four members of the Supreme Court, based on the document promoted by President Alberto Fernández and eleven governors, formally entered the Chamber of Deputies last Friday.
The project includes the arguments of the accusation and different alternatives to advance in the investigation, among them several proposals for the summons of various witnesses.
The initiative, presented by the FdT deputy Eduardo Valdés along with other legislators from the ruling party, consists of 410 pages and proposes summoning the four judges of the highest court: Horacio Rosatti -president-, Carlos Rosenkrantz, Juan Carlos Maqueda and Ricardo Lorenzetti, to appear before the Impeachment Committee of the Lower House, which will carry out the investigation
The main opposition party advanced that will participate in the debate but will not give a quorum in the commissionnoting that it is “a attack on the Court and the institutional framework” by the Government, based on the deep differences that separate both spaces in relation to issues related to Justice.
