Rossi will commence his duties on Wednesday as Manzur returns to Tucumán to campaign. Rossi’s replacement at the Federal Intelligence Agency has yet to be confirmed.
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Two men returned to court this week to stand a fresh trial on charges of killing 16-year-old Lucía Pérez by plying her with cocaine and then raping her in 2016. Matías Gabriel Farías and Juan Pablo Offidani were controversially acquitted of femicide and sexual abuse in 2018, sparking …
Supreme Court to face investigation after Frente de Todos secures impeachment commission majority
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 …
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 …