The Attorney General of the Treasury of the Nation appealed this Thursday the decision that had been made by the
federal court of Rawson
, in the case for the Chubut Transportation Compensatory Fund and which ordered the National State to return the subsidy funds to the province.
In the presentation, which requests that per saltum be applied - that is, that the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation intervene directly -, it was also requested that the appeal be granted "with suspensive effect", due to that the federal judge of Rawson Hugo Sastre "omitted to carry out the prior transfer to the National State so that he can exercise his right to defense and expose the compromised public interest affected."
The prosecution also raised the challenge of Judge Sastre, who had granted the precautionary measure presented by the governor of Chubut, Ignacio Torres, against the decision to dissolve the Compensation Fund for transportation.
The sentence had been handed down on February 22 and, according to the presentation made by the Attorney General's Office, it is "ostensibly arbitrary, causes our client a burden of impossible subsequent reparation and constitutes an evident case of institutional seriousness" and that he is also "compromised public interest".
Chubut Governor Ignacio Torres gives a press conference with other regional governors at Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. Torres, who belongs to Argentina's main conservative bloc that has backed President Javier Milei, has said his province would cut off energy supplies to the rest of the country amid a dispute over funding reductions.
(AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Meanwhile, the governor of Chubut, Ignacio Torres, harshly criticized the national government this Friday at the inauguration of the unicameral Legislature of this district, and said that the Executive Branch "did not like at all that justice has ruled in our favor." .
"They went so far as to say that no one lives in our province and it is full of guanacos and to question the popular festivals" (he said, alluding to the statements of presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni, who cited a list of events held in Chubut).
"Everything to justify the unjustifiable and not wanting to recognize that the national government was wrong, because it did not calculate that Chubut knows how to defend itself and that is what it did," Torres pointed out about the criticism from national officials and President Javier Milei himself.