The Attorney General was not invited to the opening of the sessions of Congress

The Acting Attorney General of the Nation, Eduardo Casal, was not invited to participate in the opening of the ordinary sessions of the National Congress to be held today at 11 a.m. by the President of the Nation Alberto Fernández with Vice President Cristina Kirchner. Official sources pointed out GlobeLiveMedia that until this morning the invitation had not arrived in spite of the fact that the attorney general had communicated with the ceremonial of Congress.

Thus, Casal will be the only representative of the heads of the judiciary of the Nation who did not receive the invitation. The judges of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation received it on Monday and the Defender General of the Nation, Stella Maris Martinezlast Friday.

The representatives of the highest court arrived at the parliamentary palace a few minutes before 11:30 a.m.: as planned GlobeLiveMediathe judges Horacio Rosatti and Carlos Rosenkrantz attended the opening of ordinary sessions.

From the Senate of the Nation they pointed out to this media that, by protocol, they did not have the obligation to invite the Attorney General and that in the case of Stella Maris Martínez it was a request personal of Alberto Fernández to summon.

The government criticizes Casal to the point that he introduced a bill to reform the attorney general’s office to get him out. Casal replaced the head of the Attorney General Alejandra Gils Carbon when he resigned in October 2017. He took over as the most senior attorney general in the Supreme Court, as required by law.

When Alberto Fernández became President of the Nation in December 2019, one of the first steps he took was to propose to the federal judge Daniel Rafecas as attorney general. But his statement was never processed by Kirchnerism in the Senate. Mauricio Macri He had also proposed the judge of the Superior Court of Justice of the city of Buenos Aires Inés Weinberg de Roca but did not have the endorsement of Peronism to be appointed chief prosecutor.

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At the opening of the regular sessions last year, Casal had been invited but they gave him a place in Congress which did not correspond to his position – they placed him on one of the platforms – and he removed from the place out of respect for the institutionality of his post.

For their part, in the midst of controversy over the request for impeachment of the national government against the Supreme Court, the members of the highest court have confirmed that at least two of its members will be in Congress today.

as much as he could tell GlobeLiveMediathe representatives of the Court will be the president, Horace Rosati, and its vice-president, Carlos Rosenkrantz, although it is not excluded that today they decide to be part of the ceremony Ricardo Lorenzetti and Juan Carlos Maqueda.

The explanation they gave from the fourth floor of the courts is that, despite the delay in the invitation – it just arrived this Monday – they decided that Rosatti and Rosenkrantz should go there as the authorities of the most high Court.

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The presence of Horacio Rosatti and Carlos Rosenkrantz in the Legislative Assembly is part of the political process that the government initiated on the initiative of the President of the Nation himself, Alberto Fernández. This will be precisely the speech of the president himself, at the National Congress, which will be attended by two of the appointed magistrates.

Both in the Supreme Court and in the rest of the judiciary expect a speech from Alberto Fernández with criticisms and demands, such as the line that the national government has had with justice since the beginning of the administration.

As mentioned, the invitation to attend the opening ceremony of the ordinary sessions of the National Congress, which arrived late Monday afternoon, which led to all kinds of speculation from different political sectors as to whether the judges of the Court supreme were going to be present or not parliament. However, the apparent delay in sending the invitation did not attract attention on the fourth floor of the Palace: this is not the first time that something similar has happened.

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