Following the opening of the impeachment process against the members of the Supreme Court of Justice in the Chamber of Deputies, both the ruling party and the opposition began to discuss the names of witnesses who will be summoned after February 9, if the call finally advances. admissibility report.
In its list of summoned to expose before the Impeachment Commission, Together for Change already anticipated this Thursday that they will include the ministers
Sergio Massa
and
Eduardo "Wado" de Pedro
.
The head of the political portfolio for having participated in the negotiation process prior to the ruling that forced the Government to restore a percentage of the co-participation that it had taken from the City of Buenos Aires during the pandemic while the Minister of Economy was included for endorsing a proposal to pay with bonds.
But the truth is that when the climate of the opening of the process was still hot with the details of the
14 files that request the impeachment trial
against the Court, another debate was opened between pro-government supporters and opponents related to the obligation to appear both as judges and witnesses.
The Albertist and Christianist
Eduardo Valdés
made an effort to try to convince the accredited journalists that Horacio Rosatti -president of the highest court- Carlos Rosenkrantz, Juan Carlos Maqueda and Ricardo Lorenzetti were going to appear before the deputies.
Clarín
consulted the constitutionalist Andrés Gil Domínguez who was clear about the situation of the courtiers.
"Within the framework of the exercise of the right of defense,
they can answer or not answer and they can attend or not attend
," he explained.
"The judges are, for now, denounced. If the commission office is eventually approved, it goes to the plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies and
if it is approved with two thirds there they will be newly accused before the Senate
," the constitutionalist pointed out.
This Friday, the head of the pro-government bench,
Germán Martínez
, said that if the Court does not appear
"it will be their political decision"
, but that "does not hinder" the commission, which will be able to "advance with its opinion".
The speculation they make in the ruling party is that because it is a political trial, the judges could appear before the commission to give their position on the requests for prosecution.
But it seems unlikely that they will.
However, another of the data that divides the opposition and the ruling party has to do with the witnesses.
The Frente de Todos is determined to call
Marcelo D'Alessandro
, the City's Justice and Security Minister with a request for leave, and
Silvio Robles
, Rosatti's spokesman, both on the subject of the leaked chats.
"On February 9 we are going to say, the conditions are in place to start the testing stage, everyone who has to come will have to come there to determine what happened," Martínez anticipated.
When the names of Robles and D'Alessandro were mentioned to him, the pro-government deputy responded, in statements to
Futurock
, that
"witnesses are obliged to go"
and if they do not appear before the congressional commission, they will have to "notify the instance higher".
However, from the Civic Coalition,
Juan Manuel López
gave a thumbs up to the possible summons of the Buenos Aires minister and the spokesman for the Court.
"
That causal is down
because the courts have already closed it saying that someone with illegally obtained material cannot be investigated," the deputy who is vice president of the Impeachment Committee told this newspaper.
The legislator was even emphatic on this point:
"I don't see that they can make progress on this issue
. "
López's reference has to do with the ruling by federal judge Sergio Ramos that closed a case against Robles, which had been initiated due to the alleged leaked chats with D'Alessandro, because the communications were obtained through illegal espionage.
Gil Domínguez specified that the witnesses are obliged to appear and if they do not, the commission can request through a judge that they be summoned by the public force.
The commission's activity will resume next Thursday when the authors of the 14 projects present the reasons for the prosecution requests.
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