The ruling party celebrated one of the few opportunities offered by the political context in recent months to show itself united and run the axis of the public discussion of the bad news that the economy brings and came out to condemn en bloc the ruling of the Court that suspended the elections for governor in Tucumán and San Juan. Voices as different as Alberto Fernández, Wado de Pedro, Oscar Parrilli or Axel Kicillof rushed to punish the Supreme Court, the body with which Cristina Kirchner maintains a long confrontation.
The strategy also serves the Government to warm up the agenda before the release of the official inflation data for April that INDEC will show this Friday and that, according to private consultants, could exceed 7.8 points and even reach 8%.
This Tuesday, in a message on Cadena Nacional, the President described the Supreme Court of Justice as "undemocratic" and pointed against Mauricio Macri.
"The Supreme Court of Justice has demonstrated once again that it is capable of adapting its decisions to the political needs of the opposition and thus, once again, has exposed its anti-democratic character and its profound disregard for the federal regime that governs us," the president said in a recorded message.
Fernández also pointed against Mauricio Macri, considering that the ruling "comes immediately after" the former president "tried to 'fiefdoms' to the northern provinces in which his political space foresaw defeats."
Fernández also considered that "the suspension of the elections in the provinces of San Juan and Tucumán leaves democracy hostage to a group of judges who do not observe criteria of justice and that every day, in light of what is seen in the investigation carried out by the Impeachment Commission of the Chamber of Deputies of the Nation, They are more involved in severe administrative irregularities and maneuvers that serve the current opposition."
In his message, the head of state said that the ruling of the highest court "affects two provinces in which the triumph of Peronism was projected that would have added to other triumphs of the ruling party that occurred last Sunday."
On Tuesday night, before Fernández's national network, Interior Minister Wado de Pedro recorded a message condemning the decision with a statement that linked the corruption conviction against Cristina Kirchner and the court's pronouncement. "They outlawed Cristina and they want to ban the vote of Tucumán and San Juan," De Pedro said.
Wado de Pedro and Patricia García Blanco, Secretary of Political Affairs. Video capture
The governor of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, rejected the ruling and said that "three judges trampled on the federalism of Argentina" and stressed that "guys who have not been elected by the people believe that they can take an electoral process."
"There is no precedent for four days before an election, it is annulled. I do not know if it is due to ineptitude, malice or a political operation they did with the opposition, "said the Buenos Aires president during an act in Rivadavia.
The president of the Chamber of Deputies, Cecilia Moreau, said that from the Frente de Todos (FdT) will go out "to defend democracy as many times as necessary," recalling that six years ago the judges of the Supreme Court of Justice "endorsed the 2x1 to genocide and the Argentine people repudiated it in all the squares of the country."
Sergio Massa and Axel Kicillof at the inauguration of a gas pipeline in América, province of Buenos Aires, this Wednesday, May 10.
Neuquén Senator Oscar Parrilli (very close to Cristina Kirchner) said that the Supreme Court is "an automatic minority managed by a group of monopoly businessmen," which "is trying to govern Argentina" and said that the ruling "was ordered by Macrismo to prevent the triumph of Peronism" in those provinces.
They were not the only reactions of Peronism to the ruling: the representatives of the ruling party in the Council of the Magistracy got up from the work meeting presided over by the head of the Supreme Court of Justice, Horacio Rosatti, in repudiation of the decision of the high court.
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