A group of deputies opposing the government of Argentina presented this Monday (25), in the context of high political and economic uncertainty that plagues the country, a request for a political judgment against President Alberto Fernández.
The deputy José Luis Espert, of the right-wing Avança Liberdade party, author of the initiative, presented in Congress the request against the Argentine president “for poor performance and for the commission of possible crimes in the exercise of their functions”, as announced on their Twitter account. He also specified that he is accompanied by four other legislators.
The request takes place in a context of political and economic crisis in Argentina, where differences within the ruling coalition Frente de Todos, among the ranks of the president and the vice president, Cristina Kirchner, accelerated the country’s financial deterioration.
In the Chamber of Deputies, where no party has an absolute majority, the governing coalition is the first minority and Juntos pela Change – of former President Mauricio Macri (2015-2019) – is the second. To be accepted, the request for political judgment requires two-thirds of the members present.
Consulted in an interview, Patricia Bullrich, one of the main references of Juntos pela Change, said on Sunday (24) that no one in the coalition “considered a political trial” or an early election. “We are institutionalists”, he guaranteed.
Argentina is experiencing great economic uncertainty reflected in an increase in the country risk of around 3.000 points -base, a large devaluation of the peso, an inflation of 64% in June and a fiscal deficit financed with monetary issuance, which Argentines cover themselves by buying dollars and making parallel quotations jump in the face of restrictions exchange rates to access the official exchange rate.
According to the opposing deputies in their request, the National Constitution establishes the institutional resources that “allow solutions to be found for the political crisis generated by the current government coalition”.
In the text, they also indicate that Fernández already has requests for political judgment made by some leaders of the main opposition coalition in relation to the period of the Covid pandemic-19, so that, in his opinion, “there is a consensus of most political blocs to carry out this political process”.
However, as already anticipated by Bullrich, the main opposition block Juntos pela Change has already announced that it will not support the measure.