The Supreme Court has signed an «extraordinary accord» confirming the re-election of president Ricardo Lorenzetti to the tribunal chair until 2019, in a meeting attended by under-pressure judge Carlos Fayt.
During the meeting all the ministers signed resolution 15/15, confirming Lorenzetti as president for the period 2016-19 and Elena Highton de Nolasco as vice-president.
Minutes before 10 am, the car which picked up 97-year-old Fayt from his Recoleta home arrived at the Supreme Court headquarters in the Justice Palace, after several weeks of absence. The veteran magistrate went straight into the chambers without visiting his office, which caused several collaborators to race around due to the «change of plans».
Lorenzetti, Fayt, Highton de Nolasco and Juan Carlos Maqueda had caused intrigue with a second accords meeting in two days, yesterday’s having taken place without Fayt’s presence. But the mystery was resolved around midday when a statement was released via the Judicial Information Centre titled «The Supreme Court has reaffirmed his powers of designation of authorities.»
The ministers had resolved to «declare that in the designation of authorities carried out by resolution 11/15 the attribution recognised by this Court through decree 1285/58 and ratified by law 14,467 has been put into place.»
In the four-line resolution, the judge testified the «good faith of the deliberations carried out and the results obtained, with the place in the City of Buenos Aires where it was definitively signed by the ministers being irrelevant.» That line referred to the fact that Fayt signed the renewal of authorities motion at his Recoleta home, as revealed by media in the past week
Source: Buenos Aires Herald