The leader of the Victory Front’s caucus in the Senate, Miguel Angel Pichetto, said a constitutional amendment “is not viable,” and denied that President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is interested in staying in power beyond 2015.
“The President said it on the very same day she was reelected: everything has a time and a limit. She has the opportunity of leaving an important legacy of changes. I don’t think an amendment would make it through Congress,” he explained.
Pichetto then explained that “there’s always someone who wants to be holier than the Pope and wants to move forward with a reform, but I just don’t see it happening.”
To Pichetto, Fernández de Kirchner “has made great efforts. She has a very modern view of politics. She’s a stateswoman.”
That’s why she knows “the importance of term limits and temporality.”
He also questioned the rumours saying that Argentina could embrace a parliamentary system through a constitutional amendment. “Argentina has a strong, presidential culture,” he stated.
“Our country needs to strengthen its democratic system within a presidential regime,” he explained, assuring that a parliamentary system “would weaken institutions.”
“There are some different opinions out there that I respect but I don’t agree with,” he admitted, after earlier today Justice Eugenio Zaffaroni said he would support a constitutional amendment if it could lead to a parliamentary system.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald