07/28/2020 - 16:55
- Clarín.com
- Politics
The leaders of Together for Change in full defined this Tuesday to unify their positions and oppose the government's plan to expand the Supreme Court of Justice. The opposition coalition also defined that the heads of the parliamentary blocks will not participate on Wednesday in the act in which President Alberto Fernández will present the draft of the Judicial Reform .
The two decisions were made this Tuesday at noon, after a zoom-in meeting of the coalition's National Driving Table, in which former President Mauricio Macri, former Buenos Aires governor María Eugenia Vidal, the head of government, participated. Buenos Aires and Horacio Rodríguez Larreta.
The three leaders of the blocks of Deputies, Mario Negri (UCR) , Cristian Ritondo (PRO) and Maximiliano Ferraro (Civic Coalition) and senators Miguel Naidenoff (head of the radical block) , Humberto Schiavoni (head of the PRO) and Martin Lousteau .
In addition, there were Alfredo Cornejo (president of the National Committee of the UCR), Patricia Bullrich (head of the PRO) and Maricel Etchecoin (president of the CC).
The meeting agreed on a communiqué that was published this Tuesday afternoon: "Serious countries have some unshakable basic agreements, including their institutional design, which must be sustained within a framework of stability and lasting over time. Maximum stability court is a value in itself , which safeguards the independence of the Judiciary, legal certainty and ultimately the democratic quality and institutions of our Republic, "begins the text.
"The current composition of the Court, with five members, is the number that has remained the most throughout our history and was voted almost unanimously for the last time in 2006," continues the text, which also clarifies that the The main force of the opposition will not give their votes to appoint the judges of the Court when the ruling party decides to expand the court. "Opposing the expansion of the Supreme Court also obviously implies opposing the invitation to propose candidates and to facilitate two-thirds of the votes in the National Senate for their eventual integration," the statement said.