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Argentine government accused Supreme Court of suspending elections

Buenos Aires, May 9 (Prensa Latina) The Argentine government today accused the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) of violating democracy and the autonomy of the provinces after that body's decision to suspend the elections in San Juan and Tucumán.

This day, the CSJ decided to make room for two precautionary measures presented by opposition forces and order the postponement of the elections scheduled for Sunday in those territories.

The issued documents were signed by judges Horacio Rosatti, Juan Carlos Maqueda and Carlos Rosenkrantz.

In a clear interference in the democratic process, the Court aligned itself today with the opposition to anticipate what was expected as possible triumphs of Peronism in San Juan and Tucumán, says a statement released by Casa Rosada and published by President Alberto Fernández on the social network Twitter.

Yesterday, former President Mauricio Macri (2015-2019), in the face of the defeats that the right-wing and the self-styled libertarians suffered in last Sunday’s elections, accused the Argentine provinces and their governors and citizens of being part of a feudal hindrance, adds the text .

Likewise, he indicates that this is “an absolutely contemptuous concept towards the territories of the country and towards the essence of Argentine democracy that is celebrating 40 years of validity.”

Those sad pronouncements of a former president, deniers of the federalism that governs us, constituted a preview of the ruling that we just learned about. We are together with the governors Sergio Uñac (San Juan) and Juan Manzur (Tucumán) in the face of this new outrage and we will accompany the provinces in their democratic demands, he asserts.

He also considers it imperative that the CSJ let people vote.

It is the people who must decide. Judicial interference in electoral processes deeply damages democratic coexistence and dangerously alters the institutionality that we preserve so much, he concludes. ef/jha/gas

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