Argentina's Supreme Court suspended the elections that were to take place five days later in two provinces due to the possibility that they violated the republican essence of our National Constitution. President Alberto Fernández criticized the decision and the court on national television, in line with officials, legislators, human rights organizations close to Kirchnerism.

Constitutionalists are divided between those who define it as acceptable, those who object to it and those who argue that at the very least, it is inopportune and perhaps dangerous.