Jasmine Bullorini
08/17/2021 18:33
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 08/17/2021 6:33 PM
The idea of the opposition to initiate a political trial against President Alberto Fernández loses force.
Not only because in the Together for Change Congress it does not have the numbers to advance, but also because some of the main opposition leaders distance themselves from the idea.
Former president
Mauricio Macri is
not convinced;
the head of the Buenos Aires government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, said that he did not promote it;
and the deputies of the Civic Coalition did not sign it because its leader, Elisa Carrió, did not agree with the impeachment either.
On the other hand, all the heads of the opposition coalition coincide in pushing the project presented by the head of the PRO bloc, Cristian Ritondo, to form an investigative commission.
With Congress frozen for the campaign, the bill is not taking off, but the opposition knows it can revive it as soon as there is movement or even threaten a special session to deal with it if the situation worsens.
"It is necessary to study it more, I do not have the details of the reasons for the impeachment.
A priori it would not seem
, but it is also true that we have to comply with the rules, it is an issue for jurists to study more in depth. A priori
to me It does not sound familiar to me
, but things are not what they sound like to me or not, it is what the law says ”, declared Larreta in dialogue with Urbana Play.
In this sense, the Head of Government indicated that it should be discussed by Congress.
"I did not promote it,
I did not speak of impeachment, I think what the President did is wrong, period," he said and added: "It is a serious breach of his own decree.
So clearly, it is wrong and it even seemed wrong to me that when she came out to clarify the issue in some way she blamed her partner in her first statement.
For his part,
Mauricio Macri
- who ended his isolation after returning from his trip to Europe and is willing to join the campaign - did not refer to the issue in his last statements and in his surroundings they pointed out that the idea does not convince him.
There are two requests for impeachment against Fernández recently presented in the lower house.
One of them is headed by the head of the Juntos por el Cambio interblock, Mario Negri, and the president of the PRO bloc, Cristian Ritondo.
In the grounds, they point out that Fernández threatened to "make the lesson" for those who violate the norms that he violated, that the episode "unmasks the hypocrisy of the President" and that "the most elementary republican dignity and public ethics have been ignored."
There is also another request for impeachment presented by other PRO deputies: Luis Petri, Waldo Wolff and Jorge Enríquez.
Is wider.
They claim that the President incurred in poor performance in managing the pandemic and also in the crimes of "breach of the duties of a public official", "abandonment of person" and "violation of the measures adopted to prevent the spread of the epidemic."
The deputies of the Civic Coalition did not sign any of these requests, in line with the position of Elisa Carrió, who indicated that she does not want this to be "something electoral."
"This is a crime, it has to be defined in the courts," he
said.
He also considered that an attack of this type would be "functional to the anger of Cristina Kirchner."
"It is not necessary to be functional so that after the elections she blames him (Alberto) for the defeat, makes him resign and she assumes the Presidency because there we will be in Russia and Venezuela," he said.
The truth is that
the opposition
also
has no numbers to push for impeachment.
In the Impeachment commission they can get half the votes, but the president, who is a camper, should tie the tie.
But even if they did, they would then have to guarantee two-thirds of the votes in both houses.
Only possible if part of the Frente de Todos betrays Alberto Fernandez.
As plan B, the deputies of the three forces that make up JxC presented a project to create an investigative commission to investigate beyond the birthday party of the first lady, Fabiola Yañez, if there were other violations by the President of sanitary regulations, more beyond the investigation that runs in the Justice in charge of the federal prosecutor Ramiro González.
With Congress paralyzed by the campaign and the ruling party's little predisposition to reactivate it in this political climate, the opposition could only try to deal with it in a special session.
But they recognize that it is difficult because "they are all in their provinces in campaign."
In any case, with the project presented, the option is still latent.
