Justice denied the former senator’s request Edgardo Kueiderdetained in Paraguay when he tried to enter with US$200 thousand without declaring, to declare void the session in which he was expelled from the Upper House, occurred in mid-December.
Kueider is currently serving house arrest in the neighboring country with his secretary, Iara Guinsel Consta. Last week, the now former legislator had claimed, through his lawyers, the authorization of the judicial fair to discuss his expulsion from the Senate.
New judicial setback for Edgardo Kueider
Now the National Chamber in Federal Administrative Litigation rejected the Entre Ríos request. The decision was made by the judges. Marcelo Duffy, Jorge Morán and Rogelio Vincentiwho pointed out that “the actor himself recognized that the alleged circumstances were hypothetical and that his duties were only due to resume in March.”
Previously, the Federal Administrative Contentious Court No. 6led by Enrique Lavié Pico, had rejected the former senator’s request in limine.
In his argument, Kueider had argued that “the exclusion of the signer from the Senate, On the one hand, what matters is the deprivation of a part of the population that elected me of their constitutional right to political representation, in this case, the Province of Entre Ríos.”
“Respect for political decision of the people of Entre Ríos “It cannot be ignored, nor does it admit delay,” he added. Likewise, he stated that “without due judicial review of what was resolved by the Senate in an illegal process, a dangerous institutional precedent is left, given that the final value judgment that is transmitted for the future is that a Senator can be expelled. , without formal proof – with a photocopy -, without being able to defend oneself, without following due process, without legality, and by obtaining a false majority that vitiated the will of the vote, allowing the legalization of a vote obtained with pressure and Chicanas.”
After the presentation, the prosecutor before the Federal Administrative Litigation Chamber Rodrigo Cuesta asked the court to reject the appeal of former senator Edgardo Kueider and confirm the ruling that validated the session of the Senate of Congress in which he was expelled from the bench.
Claim
Kueider’s lawyers alleged that the vice president of the Nation Victoria Villarruel She could not fulfill her duties as president of the Senate during the session, given that she was exercising the Executive Branch, as the president of the Nation was on a service commission abroad.
From the December 6, the former national senator and his secretary are under house arrest in the Paraguayan capitalAsunción, waiting for the investigation to progress for alleged smuggling and money laundering. There, both accused spent both Christmas and New Year’s Day and will continue to be detained until the Paraguayan Justice determines it or agrees to the extradition requested by the Argentine judge Sandra Arroyo Salgado.
In detail, the property where the detainees spent the holidays is apartment number 103 of a luxurious housing complex called “Tierra Alta del Maestro.” He himself has swimming pool, gym, barbecue area and an air-conditioned room for its inhabitants.
Source: Ambito
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