For the first time in almost four years, the Judicial Council, the body that
proposes, sanctions and dismisses judges, was complete after a series of maneuvers by Cristina Kirchner to avoid losing its control.
It happens that the president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation and the Council of the Judiciary of the Nation, Horacio Rosatti,
took the oath
this Friday, in the terms established in Agreement No. 5/24, to the new member of the Council of Justice. the Judiciary of the Nation.
This is the Vice Minister of Justice,
Sebastián Amerio
, who will be a member of the Council representing the National Executive Branch.
Amerio is a trusted man of the Minister of Justice, Mariano Cúneo Libarona.
Last week, Rosatti had sworn in PRO senator
Luis Juez,
who suffered a two-year block from the former vice president to occupy that position.
Cristina began a series of maneuvers when in 2021, the Court declared unconstitutional the law that she had passed, as a senator, to reduce its number of members to 13 and thus have a majority.
She was able to appoint, along with his wife, more than 500 judges.
The Court's ruling returned the Judiciary to 20 members and a balance between representatives of politics, academia, judges and lawyers, as is the spirit of the reform of the 1994 Constitution.
Thus, for the first time since 2006, the Judicial Council
does not have a political majority and the former president lost her control.
Amerio's swearing-in ceremony, held in the Bermejo Hall of the Court Palace, was attended by the vice president of the Court, Carlos Rosenkrantz, the senior minister Juan Carlos Maqueda and the minister Ricardo Lorenzetti.
Likewise, the councilors Diego Barroetaveña, Agustina Díaz Cordero, Hugo Galderisi, Miguel Piedecasas, María Alejandra Provítola, Roxana Reyes and María Fernanda Vázquez were present.
Also present were the Undersecretary of Registry Affairs of the Ministry of Justice, Carlos Medina;
the judicial secretary in charge of the Court Administration Secretariat, Damián Font;
the judicial secretary in charge of the General Legal Secretariat of the Court, Sebastián Clérici;
the director of the Federal Judicial Assistance Center, Pablo Lamounan;
the General Administrator of the Judiciary, Alexis Varady;
the legal secretary of the Presidency of the Judicial Council, Matías Posdeley, officials of the Court and the Council.