Ignacio Ortelli
03/05/2021 9:30
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 03/05/2021 9:30 AM
Despite the controversy and the impact generated by Alberto Fernández's speech at the opening of ordinary sessions, the Government
is in no hurry to advance in the creation of a Bicameral Commission
to control judges and prosecutors.
Amid speculation and contradictory versions, he postponed any definition until next week.
Strictly speaking, as
Clarín said
, the decision on the Bicameral will emerge from the meeting that the President will hold with the head of the Chamber of Deputies, Sergio Massa.
In principle, that conclave was going to take place over the weekend.
However, according to official sources, it was rescheduled for Monday due to "changes in the presidential agenda."
The head of state plans to
travel to Mendoza
with the first lady Fabiola Yáñez and a select group of officials on the occasion of the Harvest Festival.
There he will meet with the governor of Mendoza,
Rodolfo Suárez
, who this Thursday visited the Casa Rosada and agreed on details with the Minister of the Interior, Eduardo “Wado” De Pedro;
with whom he also advanced in the infrastructure works plan for his province.
Massa, a regular at the Harvest celebration,
this time decided not to travel to Mendoza
despite the fact that the President invited him to join the entourage along with his wife and head of AySA, Malena Galmarini.
In this way, the "alone" meeting that they will have happened for Monday, with a lunch format.
"Until they are seen,
there is nothing defined
and everything that is said about the commission is pure speculation," they say in Balcarce 50, playing mystery.
In Deputies they agree and swear that Massa was called to silence.
However, in the lower house, those who help to vote for Massa assure that
an initiative of this nature would not have a consensus
and is destined to
be blocked
like the judicial reform that has a half sanction from the Senate.
"We cannot force anything because there is no number (to approve it)," they admit.
There are voices, even in the ruling party, who add themselves to the words of the Minister of Justice Marcela Losardo that before the creation of a commission it must be clear that judges cannot be sanctioned to pass the constitutionality filter.
The main concern is that energy - and political capital - is wasted
in passing a law that is later challenged
.
The memory of the frustrated attempt to "democratize Justice" in 2013 is latent.
But the head of state is determined to push Congress to "assume its role of cross-control over the judiciary," as he requested on March 1.
The question that the ruling party has is how to implement it.
Indeed, after the ultra-Kirchner senator Oscar Parrilli spoke of a commission that could even summon judges and prosecutors to testify,
Losardo put cold cloths
on stating that “he will not be able to sanction”, but rather “will study the operation of Judicial Power, make proposals and summon public hearings ”.
But the national deputy Leopoldo Moreau, another figure in the K universe, came out to clarify this Wednesday that in Congress
"there is still no project linked to the creation of a bicameral commission"
, and affirmed that it was a "misunderstanding".
In dialogue with radio Futurock, when asked if it was a "mistake" to speak of a Bicameral, he did not hesitate: "Actually, yes, at least
so far no one has promoted that
.
In the presidential environment they insist that Massa's word will be key in the determination adopted by the president, who seeks to separate Cristina from the initiative.
"This is driven by Alberto," they maintain, despite the fact that Parrilli was the first to publicly address the possibility of creating the bicameral.
However, the comings and goings on the issue keep the advance of the Government against Justice at the center of the agenda, which offers a media respite to the scandal over the
VIP vaccination
, an issue that
hit squarely in the polls it commissioned the ruling party
.