Pro-government members of the Impeachment Commission yesterday won a 16-15 vote to start the impeachment of the Supreme Court justices. Therefore, an investigation into the 14 complaints filed against the highest court of the country will begin, and it could lead to the dismissal of the judges. “The …
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Supreme Court to face investigation after Frente de Todos secures impeachment commission majority
Ricardo Quintela: “We went ahead with lithium bill because mining real-estate was forming”
La Rioja governor Ricardo Quintela on February 3 made the surprise announcement that he would move the election date to May 7, following many of his Peronist peers who are separating their provinces’ elections from the national ones in order to protect themselves locally. During this interview, the …
Analysis: Supreme Court discuss how to face impeachment at in-person meeting
Most members of the Supreme Court have decided that they will not begin to devise a common strategy to face the impeachment Congress started to discuss last week, and the future of sensitive cases they control, until they meet in person. Horacio Rosatti, Carlos Rosenkrantz and Juan Carlos …
Elisa Carrió announces she’ll run for president on behalf of Civic Coalition
Civic Coalition founder Elisa Carrió announced yesterday on a radio show that she will compete in the presidential primaries within the opposition coalition, Juntos por el Cambio. The former Congresswoman will run on behalf of her party, Civic Coalition, one of the main parties within the Juntos por …
Opposition coalition Juntos por el Cambio questioned this Monday the sustainability of the debt in pesos taken by the national government. The government responded with barbed comments, triggering a protracted dispute. The controversy started when Juntos por el Cambio’s national board issued a statement calling the peso debt …
A working group of representatives from the parties within ruling coalition, Frente de Todos, will meet on Thursday evening at the Justicialista party’s headquarters in Buenos Aires. The meeting was summoned by Alberto Fernández, as president of the party. The aim is to analyze political strategy for October’s …
Chief of Staff Juan Manzur leaves role to run for Tucumán vice-governor
Alberto Fernández’s chief of staff, Juan Manzur, will leave his role next week to run for the position of vice-governor of Tucumán, his home province. Manzur, who has been in his role since September 2021, will run on a ticket with current vice governor Osvaldo Jaldo. “We are …
The judges who heard the Fernando Báez Sosa murder trial explained in their ruling why they decided to sentence most of the amateur rugby players convicted of his killing to life imprisonment. Five of the eight defendants were sentenced to life imprisonment for homicide, doubly aggravated on grounds …
Ecuador’s Lasso accepts extradition referendum defeat; opposition wins mayoral races
Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso on Monday accepted defeat in a referendum on allowing extradition for organized crime, among other reforms, but added he would continue to fight drug trafficking and keep working to improve social conditions. The results from Sunday’s voting worsened the political difficulties of Lasso, who …