A group of more than 180 representatives of political, business, union, social and religious organizations demanded the government of Alberto Fernandez to convene a debate with broad citizen participation on the draft judicial reform that is discussed in the Senate of the Nation.
With the impulse of the Argentine Political Club (which presides Graciela Fernández Meijide), the statement titled “Recreate trust for constructive dialogue” postulates that “Institutional changes require clearing up suspicions and developing with transparency, broad citizen participation“.
Among the signatory politicians, the former president stands out Eduardo Duhalde, the holders of the three main parties of Together for Change, Patricia bullrich (Pro), Alfredo Cornejo (UCR) and Maximiliano Ferraro (Civic Coalition), former Peronist official Julio Bárbaro and a large number of legislators and leaders. The intellectuals Santiago Kovadloff, Juan José Sebreli, Luis Alberto Romero, Hilda Sábato, Vicente Palermo and Juan Llach they also add up. At the institutional level, the Bar Association of the City of Buenos Aires, the Institute for Business Development in Argentina (IDEA), the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange, the Christian Association of Business Leaders (ACDE), the Jewish B `nai B`rith Argentina, the Fundación Libertad and the National Ser Fiscal Network. Those organizations had already signed a first declaration, linked to the pandemic, entitled “United in diversity to face the present“.
The text calls for “essential transformations to improve the institutional quality of the Republic, such as a profound judicial reform”, but they consider that “the emergency that the country is facing does not produce the appropriate climate to achieve it.” For this reason, they highlight the importance of reaching an “agreement of the main political forces represented in the National Congress.”
“The will to dialogue manifested by the President and the opposition leaders summons them to a table of agreements. We do not believe that indifference is an option because in the immediate future the future of the country is at stake, “the signatories maintain.
The list of politicians who adhere to the statement also includes Eduardo Amadeo, Armando Caro Figueroa, Toty Flores, Rogelio Frigerio, Ricardo Gil Lavedra, Hilda González de Duhalde, Diego Guelar, Horacio Jaunarena, Luis Juez, Luciano Laspina, Juan Pablo Lohle, Hernán Lombardi, Ricardo Mazzorin, Norma Morandini, Mario Negri, Graciela Ocaña, Paula Olivetto, Miguel Ángel Pichetto, Federico Pinedo, Ramón Puerta, Cristian Ritondo, Jesús Rodríguez, Margarita Stolbizer.
The following is the full text of the statement:
1. Recreating a climate of constructive dialogue requires trust and a genuine desire for consensus. The seriousness of the crisis caused by the pandemic and its social and economic consequences can only be faced with a united society.
2. It is imperative to advance an agenda of urgent issues to debate, resigning -or postponing- those issues that require more time for discussion and more laborious agreements.
3. Without denying that there must be essential transformations to improve the institutional quality of the Republic, such as a profound judicial reform, the emergency that the country is facing does not produce the appropriate climate to achieve it. In order for them to last and represent the demands of the vast majority of society, institutional changes require clearing up suspicions and developing with transparency, broad citizen participation. And the agreement of the main political forces represented in the National Congress. The people must know what it is about.
Argentine society has fully demonstrated its attachment to democracy as the system that we Argentines choose to live in and hopes that its leaders will rise to the dramatic circumstances that we have to go through.
The will to dialogue manifested by the President and the opposition leaders summons them to a table of agreements
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