Argentine President Alberto Fernández met with governors this Thursday (02) to discuss the creation of a project to increase the number of members of the Supreme Court: from five to 25 judges.
Last year, Fernández already announced his intention to expand the highest court in the country. The issue has also been a priority for Kirchenism since 2013, when the Supreme Court considered a proposal for reform in the Judiciary Council, proposed by the then president, and now vice president, Cristina Kirchner, to be institutional.
The bill calls for all provinces to be represented and for the court to be made up of at least 12 women. “The initiative wants to help the judiciary system, offering a broader composition that facilitates procedural celerity,” said Alberto Rodríguez Saá, governor of San Luis, during the press conference.
The opposition criticizes the initiative. “Peronist governors have one foot in the caudillo: each one wants to place their own judge on the Supreme Court”, published on social media the deputy of the Radical Civic Union Mario Neri.
This interference by the executive in the judiciary has already been seen in Venezuela. The expansion of the court was a strategy used in the country, for the rapid approval of Chavista agendas, which contributed to the transformation of the country into a dictatorship. Former dictator Hugo Chávez increased the number of judges in Venezuela’s highest court from 20 to 32 in 2004 and has not lost a single case since.
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