Milei designates by decree two related judges in the Supreme Court

“Having elapsed almost a year since the moment the president, making use of his faculty, decided to nominate both candidates, the Upper House must have lent according to the candidates proposed by the Executive Power,” said the president’s office in a release.

The complaint of the libertarian has to do with the fact that the Senate did not approve or reject the specifications of Ariel food y Manuel García Mansillaproposed by the government nine months ago.

The Lijo nomination, a highly politicized federal judge and known for moving the judicial causes to the heat of political temperature, generated a wide rejection among his own colleagues as a profession, while García Mansilla, a respected professor of constitutional law, coincides with Milei in background issues such as abortion restriction.

The Argentine Supreme Court is made up of five judges, but it was working since December 2024 with only three for the retirement of two of its members. With the arrival of Lijo and García Mansilla, the country’s highest court of justice will be Integrated only by men.

Elisa Carrió, conventional constituent in 1994 and one of the main referents of the opposition, was overwhelming in criticism of Milei:

“From the institutional and republican point of view, it is A true horror. As for Lijo, it is a corruption scandal of national and international magnitude, “he said.

Criticism

Juan Manuel López, a member of the Civic Coalition (CC), Carrió’s party, pointed out that Milei seeks to cover himself against the consequences for the recent crypto scandal of the meme coin $ Libra.

“Forcing the Constitution, Milei seeks to guarantee his impunity and that of his sister With Lijo in the Court. But sooner or later it will be extorted. Poor Argentine people, condemned to pilgrimage for justice. “

Senator Francisco Paoltroni, expelled a few months ago from La Libertad Avanza (Lla), Milei’s party, was not complacent with the President’s movement: “The appointment of Judge Lijo by decree represents a true electoral scam for those who believed in an Argentina different, with quality and independent justice. “

Milei appealed to a spring offered by the Constitution while the legislative power is in recess. The extraordinary sessions concluded on February 21 and the ordinary period will begin this Saturday, March 1. The Argentine Magna Carta contemplates that in that period the Executive Power can appoint Judges of the Court in Commission, “until the end of the next legislature.” This means that If the Senate does not ratify Lijo and García Mansilla, the passage of the two judges by the Court will be brief. The government maintains, however, according to The nation, that both judges have their site insured in the Court until February 28, 2026 without the need to be ratified by the Senate.

José Mayans, spokesman in the Senate of Peronism, who has 34 of the 72 benches, already advanced that Their senators would drop the specifications of Lijo and García-Manilla if the government appointed them by decree.

The PRO, the party of former President Mauricio Macri, increasingly distanced from Milei, summoned an emergency meeting in which he will express his rejection of the president’s decision.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) organization was very severe in its analysis of the step taken by Milei and called on Argentine institutions to “Frena the outrage.”

“The appointment by Decree of Lijo and García-Mansilla represents One of the most serious attacks against the independence of the Supreme Court In Argentina since the return of democracy. President Milei cannot pretend to evade institutional mechanisms simply because he has not achieved the necessary votes in the Senate to appoint his candidates. “