In a race against the clock, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation received this noon the notification of the State Prosecutor of Tucumán with the acceptance of the resignation of Juan Manzur to his candidacy for vice governor. This is how the legal process was launched that allows it to give an institutional response, judicial sources told Clarín.
In his letter, Nazur requested the urgent revocation of last Tuesday's precautionary measure so that the elections can be held this Sunday. In parallel, the Court gave the complaint 72 hours to comment on Nazur's request, enabling non-working hours for it to respond.
For more press conferences or announcements on social networks, the highest court needs to enter the file the formal notification of the acceptance of Manzur's resignation and the nomination of his replacement Miguel Acevedo was a formal requirement.
The highest court presided over by Horacio Rosatti "will give the greatest speed to the process but respecting the legal steps."
In addition, he requested the file from the Attorney General of the Nation where he was for the request for revocation presented this week by the Tucuman state prosecutor against the precautionary measure that suspended Sunday's elections.
The precautionary measure was to analyze whether it was constitutional for Manzur to run for a fifth time for a position in the executive branch of the province. The Court last night rejected the request for revocation.
In addition, the Court requested the opinion of the Tucumán opposition complaint against Manzur's resignation before deciding whether to annul his precautionary measure and allow the elections to be held this Sunday in Tucumán. And he gave him 72 hours to reply.
Manzur was twice lieutenant governor – between 2007 and 2015 – and twice governor, from 2015 until now. There, the article of the Constitution tortured to interpret it in one way or the opposite, is 90, which allows the lieutenant governor to be a candidate for governor after two terms in that chair, but it is not clear if a governor with two terms in power can be a candidate for vice president.
The Tucuman Court had given the green light to Manzur, who also until the last moment kept several options open for this election year, including competing for the presidency.
"To declare that, in accordance with the provisions of Article 90 of the Constitution of Tucumán, the Governor who has been elected on two consecutive occasions for such function may be proposed as a candidate for, and eventually elected as, Vice Governor in the following period," says the ruling of the Tucumán Court dated last November, whose appeal is the one now resolved by the highest national court.
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