Cristina Fernandez wins a battle on her ongoing attack on the non submissive Judiciary

Tuesday, May 5th 2015 - 09:18 UTC

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Argentine president Cristina Fernandez and her followers might be having a rough time in the current round of local elections and primaries leading to the presidential vote next October, but her infighting skills remain intact: on her ongoing battle with the Judiciary branch she managed to put in check the Supreme Court. Read full article

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Pete35
It was Cristina's government who brought the number of members of the court down from 9 to 5. Now she wants to go back to 9? Lorenzetti should not resign.
May 05th, 2015 - 11:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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yankeeboy
Argentina sinking lower and lower.
Just like Venezuela.
May 05th, 2015 - 12:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Enrique Massot
The headline is biased. It is true the judiciary is polarized, and those who Mercopress call `non submissive` could more realistically be called judges who side with the opposition.
This is a strange move from a man who just got re-elected after having his peers voting on his mandate one year before the due date.
May 05th, 2015 - 01:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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chronic
Gives new meaning to the term “kangaroo court”.

rotting roadkill, I wish you an inexhaustable supply of similarly qualified jurists.

STARVE THE TROLLS.
May 05th, 2015 - 02:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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golfcronie
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Remember Nisman? Perhaps he thinks he may have the same fate. What a fucked up country is Argentina, they can't do anything right.
May 05th, 2015 - 04:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Briton
Considering she is going soon,
one has to seriously wonder why she is so deterring to get all these victories,

unless she has a few autumn surprises for her people..
May 05th, 2015 - 06:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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La Patria
@6 She'll have one eye on the UK election as the outcome will influence what stupid decision she makes regarding the islands.

Miliband in power being propped up by CND advocate Sturgeon could be the impetus for some kind of crazy action.
May 06th, 2015 - 12:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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