The crossing of Martín Lousteau with Cristina Kirchner due to the changes that the ruling party imposed on the judicial reform project

08/28/2020 - 2:28

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The Senate gave a half sanction to the judicial reform that received modifications until the last minute by the ruling party, which generated harsh questions from the opposition and a tense cross between Senator Martín Lousteau and Vice President Cristina Kirchner. 

The senator from Together for Change asked for a question of privilege and harshly criticized the fact that the ruling party had read numerous changes to the original opinion about the end of the debate.

"I insist again that the questions of privilege are to preserve the proper functioning of the House. So now all the opposition senators are learning about a lot of changes," Lousteau complained.

For fifteen minutes, the president of the Constitutional Affairs committee, María de los Angeles Sacnum, highlighted the changes. In addition to the provincial courts, they ended up creating Appeals Chambers in nine provinces as well as a Tribunal for the Resolution of Conflicts of Competence.

Initially, the ruling party had reported that the reform would cost $ 1,939 million. According to the opposition, the number rises to $ 6 billion.

The head of the Juntos por el Cambio interblock Martín Lousteau questioned the untidiness about the end. Photo Lucia Merle

"There has already been an opinion and now there are ten minutes of changes to the opinion , among which there are a lot of creations of charges when before we discussed whether the fiscal cost of the reform was 1,900 or 6,000 million pesos or more," he added.

"Senator, they are going to vote against," interrupted Cristina.

"It does not matter that. I am making a question of privilege on the operation of the Chamber. If it is not extremely difficult. We were discussing 30 hours in a Commission, an opinion was reached that we did not know until it was presented, " continued Lousteau.

And he exclaimed: "We couldn't even know if we were in favor or against and now we are learning more changes about the opinion. Honestly, it is very difficult to work like that ."

Through social networks, other opposition senators joined Lousteau's claim. "It is not known what was voted, a shame," said Luis Naidenoff . "One more step in this dark process to destroy Argentine justice," added Esteban Bullrich . 

In the last 15 minutes of the session, the ruling party modified, without prior notice, the entire project, rendering the 11 hours of previous debate sterile. It is not known what was voted. A shame. #Judicial reform

At the close of the session, the ruling party reported dozens of changes including the creation of courts. The reform of the reform, a shame. One more step in this dark process to destroy Argentine justice.

When we said that there was improvisation, we did not believe that it was so much, at the end the ruling party proposes more modifications than the articles that the law has.
This further supports our rejection of the #ReformaJudicial. It is a reform of the reform.

The president @alferdez created 279 positions with his Judicial Reform project. The ruling party modified it and they became 908, after the negotiation to get the votes they need in Deputies. And minutes before today's vote they reached more than 1000 positions. SCANDAL!

0.30 hours, and Kirchnerism has just read what is going to vote tonight. They hid the text of the half-sanction until the last minute so that we do not know what is going to vote. And then they want to talk to us about consensus?

The #PlanCanje and the #Poroteo were confirmed, more than 10 minutes of additions in the venue on the opinion that we debated.
A shame!!!

#ReformaJudicial
After 10 hours of debate, the ruling party introduces a list of modifications to its own opinion totally unknown by the opposition, minutes before voting.
Inadmissible outrage, which shows the intentions behind the reform.

They do it again, with their backs to the people, with a modification to the opinion that contains an innumerable list of new charges. Poor of this move federal justice, that goes to spy from under her blindfold! Another outrage for EVERYONE. # Judicial Reform