The question that arises is who was in charge of the National Executive Branch during the absence of Milei who, as confirmed by Casa Rosada, left at noon when the session had just begun. The case, which opens a legal window for Edgardo Kueider to challenge the legality of his expulsion before the Court, triggered tension between the National Executive Branch and the Senate.
The Casa Rosada version
“The transfer of the Presidency was signed after Milei left and after the expulsion of Kueider was voted,” the national government confirmed when asked by Scope. In the Legal and Technical Secretariat they assure that the transfer signature is “colloquial” and that when the President is outside Argentine territory “it is automatic.”
That position did not go down well in the Senate. From Villarruel’s office they responded that “if it is colloquial, the vice president has to at least know that the President left the country.” Thus, a new front of conflict opens in the face of the tense silence maintained Milei since the Upper House expelled Kueider, a key ally of the ruling party for the approval of the basic law.
The Executive replied that Manuel Adorni In the morning he made public the schedule of the President’s activities, which stated that he was traveling at noon, clarifying that he left at 12:00. In any case, it is the same presidential spokesperson who published on networks a call for extraordinary sessions with detailed dates, which was never officially published in the Official Gazette.
Although this is an institutional irregularity, two-thirds of the votes of the full Senate unequivocally expressed the will of the Chamber to expel Kueider which, added to the doctrine of the powers of the State of not judicializing its decisions, would be It is difficult for justice to reverse the vote of 60 national senators despite this legal non-compliance.
He constitutional lawyer Andrés Gil Domínguez expressed in Executive Branch, and therefore, she was never in a situation of simultaneous positions – Vice President in charge of the Executive Branch and President of the Chamber of Senators – that would have generated the nullity of the session of the Senate that ordered the expulsion of Edgardo Kueider.”
Who supported Edgardo Kueider
In the special session where Edgardo Kueider was expelled, they only rejected that initiative the radical Maximiliano Abad; PRO senators, Alfredo De Ángeli, Enrique Goerling Lara, Andrea Cristina and Carmen Álvarez Rivero; along with Carlos “Camau” Espínola from Corrientes. Juan Carlos Romero from Salta abstained and José María Carambia from Santa Cruz left the premises before voting.
Kueider He is accumulating complaints for alleged crimes after being discovered trying to bring more than 200 thousand dollars without declaring to Paraguay, where he is under house arrest. The jFederal Judge Sandra Arroyo Salgado This Thursday, he requested the arrest and removal of immunity from the national senator for Entre Ríos Edgardo Kueider in addition to the extradition of Iara Guinsel Costa, secretary of the legislator who accompanied him on the excursion to the Paraguayan city of Ciudad del Este.
The federal judge’s decision was known minutes before the Senate met in special session to discuss his expulsion, suspension or request for leave. The Union for the Homeland bloc, to which Kueider belonged before approaching the ruling party, will demand that the Entre Ríos native be expelled from the Upper House.
In parallel, the judge ordered to carry out around twenty raids with the intervention of the Gendarmerie on different homes of natural and legal persons that could be linked to the matrix of public corruption that is being investigated as a derivative of the SECURITAS mega case.
Source: Ambito
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