:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/DXTFOGOVXNGABPQXT6ARVKCGOE.jpeg "Today three senators are sworn in to the Judicial Council and one member is missing for it to be complete 1")
Three national senators will be sworn in today as members of the National Judicial Council, the body responsible for selecting and prosecuting state and federal judges and administering the national judicial system. It will be at 10 a.m. in the Bermejo room of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation in a ceremony presided over by the head of the two organizations, Horace Rosattiand in a tense political context.
The senators who will take the oath are Maria Agnes Pilatti Vergara, Mariano Recalde (in front of everyone) and Edouard Vischi (of the Radical Civic Union). The first two have already joined the Council in the previous term and Vischi will do so for the first time. Thus, the body will reach its 19 members and one subtracts from its full integration of 20 which has been in effect since April last year when the Supreme Court declared its previous composition of 13 unconstitutional.
The arrival of new senators is part of a particular political context. On the one hand, the ruling party promotes in the Chamber of Deputies the political trial of the four judges of the highest court, Rosatti, Carlos Rosenkrantz, Juan Carlos Maqueda and Ricardo Lorenzettifor allegedly poor performance in 14 events, including the decision on the Council and the co-entry in favor of the city of Buenos Aires.
On the other hand, the Court rejected the nomination of the senator of the Frente de Todos Make a donation join the Council. He did so on the basis of a decision last year in which the senator had already been removed from the body because the ruling party split its Senate bloc to retain the spot. For the highest court, this maneuver was a “ruse” and it endorsed it for the new integration of the Council.
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It now remains to be seen to which Senate block this place corresponds. The PRO claim it for themselves and named Luis Juez. The senator cordobés started a lawsuit to integrate the Council. This file has two parts. One to the Federal Chamber of Administrative Litigation and the other directly to the Supreme Court where he went directly per saltum. For now, his proposal has been rejected in the first instance and the other definitions are awaited.
In per saltum, the National Senate challenged judges Rosatti, Maqueda and Rosenkrantz not to intervene in the case.
The Council is composed of the President of the Court, four judges, four lawyers, four deputies, four senators, two representatives of the National Universities and one of the Executive Power.
With the oath of Pilatti Vergara, Recalde and Vischi, the Council will reach 19 members. The expectation in the body is whether it will start functioning or whether the 20 advisor should be sworn in. The corps should have been complete since November last year, but due to political fights it did not succeed. Furthermore, the last time the Council met in plenary session was in June last year.
He has several outstanding issues on the agenda. One of them, and one of the most transcendental, is the vacancy of the posts of judge in the judiciary. The Council is able to resolve 84 contests which have already been completed and only their approval remains in plenary for them to move on to the next stage, which is the election within the executive branch. 2022 has been one of the worst years in terms of public competitions to fill vacancies for judges: approved only 10. They managed to unblock with the arrival of Rosatti to the presidency in April but then they stagnated. The worst year had been 2021 where only 5 competitions had been approved.
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The last oath of councilors took place on December 21 when the representatives of the Chamber of Deputies did so. Frente de Todos national lawmakers sworn in Rodolfo Tailhade and Vanesa Siley, that of the PROs alvaro gonzalez there the radical Roxanne Reyes. But the first two did so with reservations. This is because the Court decided to swear them in when the President of the Deputies, Cecile Moreau, He had withdrawn the documents because of a ruling that called Reyes’ appointment an irregularity.
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