As the Political Trial against the Supreme Court in Deputies progresses, the time will come to
summon witnesses
.
In this sense, Together for Change has already announced that it wants to call
the Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, and the Minister of the Interior, Eduardo "Wado" de Pedro,
within the framework of the ruling for the co-participation of the City;
one of the reasons why Kirchnerism accuses the supreme judges for poor performance.
De Pedro is already part of the list of witnesses that the Frente de Todos specified that it will summon in its project, as well as the Treasury attorney, Carlos Zannini, and the governors.
But the ruling party does not include Massa and
the opposition also wants him to come and pronounce himself on the subject.
"Did he comply with the precautionary measure? What role did he have? What did they notify him of?
Does he also want to prosecute the Court? He has to take charge.
There are many things to ask him," the head of the Civic Coalition bloc
assured
Clarín
and vice president of the Impeachment Committee, Juan Manuel López.
Massa had been singled out as the actor who engineered the failed proposal to pay the City with bonds.
He had also talked about a project to charge extra taxes to banks and online gambling to cover the payment.
Different ways to abide by the ruling.
Finally, the "modification of the 2023 budget" was included
in the extraordinary agenda ,
which could be related to a movement of items for this issue.
The idea of summoning Massa had already been discussed at the meeting held by the JxC legislators before going to the Impeachment Committee.
"He is one of the three legs of this government along with Alberto and Cristina, he is a possible candidate for president, but he never gave an opinion on the trial to the Court," they stated.
It is known that Massa never ruled on the decision to impeach Court judges, everything indicates that the idea does not convince him, and
the opposition wants to drive a wedge into the ruling party forcing him to speak.
On several occasions they pointed out the "silence" of the leader of the Renovation Front on the subject and accused him of "playing distracted."
This had generated
doubts
, which forced referents of the Renovation Front to clarify that they were in tune with the proposal.
In fact, the Impeachment Commission was left with two massistas in its integration who were present today in the debate.
Massa is one of those most affected by the tension between the two main benches, because many of the extraordinary projects that the ruling party is unlikely to approve without an opposition agreement, are precisely economic issues such as money laundering.
However,
whether or not the minister attends the debate as a witness will end up depending on the Frente de Todos
.
The pro-government bench is the majority in the commission and it is most probable that the lists of witnesses will be put to a vote.
In the ruling party
they did not answer
on the subject.
They excused themselves with the argument that it is missing for that instance.
It is that only on Thursday will the authors of the 14 accumulated impeachment projects be exposed.
On Thursday, February 9, the admissibility of the political trial would be voted on.
At that time, the process itself would begin and witnesses would be summoned.
"We are going to see then if the ruling party
wants to protect
him . If he does not have a problem with this issue, the minister should come," they slipped from the opposition.
The FdT legislators have already confirmed that they will call to testify Horacio Rosatti, Carlos Rosenkrantz, Juan Carlos Maqueda and Ricardo Lorenzetti, who
do not have to attend
.
"Being the potential defendants, they have every right to appear when the facts are known, to give their view on the matter, they can do it or not and, if they do, it can be in person or in writing," said the FdT block leader. German Martinez.
They will also request reports from more than 10 organizations and will summon dozens of witnesses, including governors, national officials, human rights organizations and K lawyers.
In turn, they want to call Marcelo D'Alessandro, Minister of Justice and Security of the City, and Silvio Robles, Rosatti's spokesman, because of the leaked chats.
In JxC they did not confirm either if they will object to those calls.
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