Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich decried the injuction measure placed by Civil and Commercial Court magistrate Horacio Alfonso to suspend Grupo Clarín’s forced divestment plan ordered by the AFSCA media watchdog. He urged the media outlet to comply with the Media Law to prove that “we are all equal before the law.”
“It has been four years and 2 months since the Congress pass the (Media) law and Clarín Group does not comply with it or with the article 16 of the Constitution, which states that we are all equal before the law,” the official said in his daily press briefing at the government house.
Alfonso’s ruling determined that the decision to force Clarín to restructure its multimedia holdings in line with the law, was not appropriately debated by the watchdog’s board of directors.
Capitanich rebuked the judge saying that “the law clearly states that if (Clarín) does not adjusts itself willingly, the restructuring must be made ex officio and that is what the AFSCA has done.”
He went on to add that “interposing a legal remedy is plain and simply seeking to delay” the enforcement of the law.
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