Anabel Fernández Sagasti has assumed as the new head of the Lower House Impeachment Trial Committee, the Victory Front (FpV) party bloc announced vowing to start next week an impeachment process against Supreme Court justice Carlos Fayt.
31-year-old Fernández Sagasti is replacing Adela Sagarra, also a FpV lawmaker, counting with the majority of votes of the members of the Committee.
When taking the post, the Mendoza-province-born lawmaker called colleagues to respond to “existing demands.”
“We are studying all of them (the demands) and the Committee will determine in which way to act depending on what each (demand) says,” she said and praised the work carried out by outgoing Segarra for her “activist commitment to conduct this committee.”
In the meantime, FpV legislator María del Carmen Bianchi requested a meeting for next week to address the “public reports that have gathered major volume and evidence over the health condition, which refers to the oldest member of the Supreme Court of Justice,” alluding to Carlos Fayt who was appointed for the job in 1983. The Supreme Court justice is now 97 years old.
Considering the debate over Fayt had a “priority nature,” Bianchi said the matter has to be discussed having “a special consideration of the value and work of the member of the Court,» taking into account that «his function is in direct relation” with the full observance of Argentineans’ rights.
Carlos Fayt has been put under fire over the past days following the reelection of Ricardo Lorenzetti at the front of Argentina’s maximum tribunal, with government officials reporting irregularities in the voting.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald