The ultra -rightist Javier Milei suffered a hard political setback. Waiting in the United States of a pious gesture by Donald Trump for the Argentine economy after having imposed a 10% general lien to its exports, Milei received from Buenos Aires a feared and inevitable news. The Senate rejected for a forceful majority the designations by decree of the Executive of two new members of the Supreme Court. The capitalist Anarco had promoted federal judge Ariel Lijo and the conservative professor Manuel García-Mansilla as members of the highest judicial instance. The government’s effort was not enough to avoid a defeat that takes place in difficult economic moments that forced the president to travel urgently to North American territory to expedite a loan of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that allows to sustain the “largest adjustment in history.”
The so -called president’s office spoke in his name about the parliamentary desais, repudiated the decision of the senators and attributed his decision to “Merely political reasons“And not in the” suitability of the candidates. “García Mansilla is related to the Opus Dei And Lijo is a magistrate whose probity has been seriously questioned by the Bario College of Buenos Aires.
Milei has governed almost 16 months with the support of the “Political caste“Faced with each adversity, he remembers his evil condition. Thursday night was conducive to recidivism. Legislators, they said,” they chose to prioritize concern for their judicial causes and those of their leaders, to the detriment of the functioning of one of the three powers of the Republic. ” Congress has become “a preventive machine” and “it does not act in favor of the people.” Milei, says the statement, will continue “working tirelessly to guarantee judicial independence.” The fantasy of closing the Parliament, more than once communicated by the toughest sectors of La Libertad advances in situations of adversity in the enclosure, again charged brio on Thursday night.
Made in line
“Chronicle of one announced death“said the portal ´infobae`, commenting what happened. “The slap was resounding“Online policy said, it is the first time, since 1983, when the institutional path was resumed, that the Senate rejects a candidate proposed by the Executive Power for a judicial position. With this vote, The Supreme is maintained with only three members since December. The striking of the senators’ pronouncement is that it managed to gather the Peronist and the traditional right, enmity these days with Milei for issues that do the control of the capital legislature from the May elections.
According to the newspaper ´La ‘, both candidates “Government stubbornization paid expensivelywho refused to seek the consensus demanded by the Constitution. “García Mansilla came to say that he would never accept to be appointed by decree, but when Milei appointed him, he did not take care of a oath.” As Pedro, he denied three times that he was going to be a commission judge, “said the radical senator (Centroderecho), Martín Lousteau, with a biblical allusion.”Garcia-Mansilla is usurping the position, it is not legitimate “Said his Peronist colleague, José Mayans. “If we accept this, for four years they will name those who sing in the Supreme.” For Mayans, the president “committed a channel” or “is an ignorant.”
García-Mansilla warned that he does not plan to resign. “Since February 27, 2025 I am exercising in the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation and joy of the guarantees established in the Constitution.” It is also proposed to make a formal presentation in front of the other three members of the highest court to consult what status their investiture is.
Federal Judge of La Plata Alejo Ramos Padilla issued a precautionary order for prevent him from intervening in the causes in process in the Supreme. Ramos Padilla has in his hands a cause in which the constitutionality of the decree signed Milei on February 25 to designate it is discussed.
The defeat in the Senate showed to what extent the confrontation between the capitalist anarch and its vice president, Victoria Villarruel. The main advisor of Milei, Santiago Caputo, a young man with enormous political power and control of intelligence and treasury structures, tried to suspend the session through a maneuver that was prevented by Villarruel herself, who has not spoken for months with the television extermination.
