The now former legislator argued that the right of the people of Entre Ríos who voted for him is being violated and insists on declaring the nullity of the session in which his expulsion was voted.
With 2025 just begun, the now former senator Edgardo Kueider requested before the Court of Appeals in Administrative Litigation to enable the judicial fair to address his lawsuit against the upper house, which voted for his dismissal at the beginning of last month.
Kueider, detained in Paraguay After having tried to deposit more than 200 thousand undeclared dollars, he argued that his Senate move violates the right of the people of Entre Ríos who voted for it.
“The exclusion of the undersigned from 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,” said the former legislator in the document presented to Justice. “Respect for political decision of the people of Entre Ríos “It cannot be ignored, nor does it admit delay,” he added.
In the new presentation, Kueider He insisted: “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 a formal proof – with a photocopy -, without being able to defend itself, without following due process, without legality, and by obtaining a false majority that was vitiated the will of the vote, allowing the legalization of a vote obtained with pressure and chicanery. .
Edgardo Kueider insists on requesting the annulment of the session in which his expulsion was voted
The request was left in the hands of prosecutor Rodrigo Cuesta, who before the beginning of the fair adhered to the decision of first instance judge Enrique Lavie Pico and ratified that the session in which his dismissal was voted was valid.
Kueider’s lawyers had alleged that the Vice President of the Nation Victoria Villarruel could not fulfill her duties as President of the Senate in the session, given that she was in the exercise of the Executive Power, as the President of the Nation was on secondment. abroad.
“A valid history of intervention of the Executive Branch of the Nation in one of the exclusive functions of the Legislative Branch “such as the expulsion of a Senator,” he added and along those lines he warned: “The case is extremely serious for the Nation and creates a dangerous precedent in the functioning of one of the most important organs of the State, the National Congress,” stated the lawyer of the former senator, Maximiliano Ruiz, in the letter with which he requested fair treatment. Judge Lavie Pico responded that the session had no irregularities and that acceding to what was requested would mean that Justice would interfere with the Legislative Branch.
Source: Ambito
