The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation will define in the coming weeks a request for protection and whether it is constitutional that the constitution of Formosa allow the indefinite re-election of Governor K of that province Gildo Insfrán, they revealed to Clarion judicial sources.
The highest court has just asked the Formosa government a defense against a series of resources against the fact that Insfrán has been governor for eight consecutive terms, against all republican principles on alternation in power.
Two weeks ago Clarion He announced that the senator of La Libertad Avanza for Formosa Francisco Paoltroni had asked the judge of the Court, Ricardo Lorenzetti, to resolve these appeals about Insfrán. Last year, the Court had declared the unconstitutionality of re-election for more than two terms in San Juan, Río Negro and Tucumán.
Insfrán has been an ally of former president Cristina Kirchner and governs the province with an iron fist, putting pressure on journalists and opponents, as well as carrying out the harshest isolation of the population throughout Argentina and maneuvering against allegations of corruption.
The most advanced file that exists in the Court He is one of the Confederation of the Formoseño Broad Front requested a series of reports on these two cases to be defined in the coming weeks.
That appeal was presented by Agostina Villaggi and Rodolfo Basques of that confederation with the legal sponsorship of Juan Sebastián Montoya.
The amparo, presented last year, was against article 132 of the Constitution of the Province of Formosa that enabled Insfrán’s eighth candidacy.
The amparistas had maintained that article 132 of the Constitution of the Province of Formosa “violates” article 5 of the National Constitution and article 23 of the American Commission on Human Rights.
“The eighth nomination as a candidate for governor of Insfrán It causes us current and irreparable damage, by exposing ourselves to compete against someone who at this point in history has occupied the first provincial magistrate for 36 years uninterruptedly,” said the members of the Confederation of the Formoseño Broad Front.
“The fact that the provincial norm enables re-election violates the republican principle of government, since it carries the certain and concrete possibility of being indefinite,” they added.
Furthermore, Insfrán entered public activity in 1983 as a deputy, serving as vice-governor for two consecutive terms for eight years before becoming governor in 1995, being re-elected seven times. This “is that he has been holding the position for 28 years, totaling 36 uninterrupted years in power, this in a serious Monarchy and is something normal, but in a Republic it is clearly not,” they maintained.
