Key Session: The Senate prepares to reject the statements of Lijo and García-Mansilla

Almost a year after President Javier Milei sent his nominations to the Supreme Court of Justice, the Senate is preparing to define on Thursday the fate of federal judge Ariel Lijo and professor Manuel García-Mansilla in a session that threatens to end in the rejection of both documents and become a hard political setback for Casa Rosada and, in particular, for the presidential operator Santiago Caputo, architect of the official strategy to compl…

The ruling party tried to suspend the debate for the statements of Manuel García-Mansilla and Ariel Lijo at the last moment, without success. García-Mansilla collected 51 votes in rejection, 20 accessions and zero abstentions; while Lijo had 43 against, 27 accompaniments and one abstention. Read more

Senator Luis Juez (PRO) reiterated in this Thursday’s session his criticisms of Ariel Lijo, one of the two judges appointed in the Supreme Court by President Javier Milei. “I rarely saw so much operation for the statement of a magistrate,” the legislator said, who on the contrary confirmed his support for the other judge, Manuel García-Mansilla. Judge lamented that in the debate in the upper House “we were not discussing the quality of the judge…

Some constitutionalists claim that if the rejection is categorical, García Mansilla should leave office immediately. He said he does not intend to step aside.

Both judges, appointed by the government through a DNU, were widely rejected by legislators.The entry The Senate rejected the statements of Lijo and García-Mansilla: a new setback for Milei was first published in #BorderJournalism.

The session began after 14 o'clock. I followed the debate on the grounds.