Paraguay
PLRA leader says there is no formal filing for a political trial against Supreme Court justices
Alcides Riveros said the party will analyze the issue if an official accusation advances in the Chamber of Deputies. He also said there is a permanent threat of control over institutions.
The president of the Authentic Radical Liberal Party, Alcides Riveros, said that for the moment there is no official filing to push a political trial against justices of the Supreme Court of Justice, according to ABC Color.
According to that outlet, the reports point to an alleged plan by the Cartismo to remove Víctor Ríos, Manuel Ramírez Candia and Gustavo Santander Dans, with the aim of replacing them with figures close to the ruling party. The three were mentioned as the only Supreme Court justices who did not take part in the meeting held last year with Santiago Peña at Mburuvicha Róga.
Riveros told ABC Color that he does not have concrete information on the matter and stressed that the PLRA will set its position when there is a formal proposal. However, he said he will take up the request from Congressman Adrián “Billy” Vaesken for the party’s Executive Board to analyze the political scenario.
The Liberal leader also said that “there is always a threat of takeover,” although he insisted that so far no official request has been submitted. In that sense, he recalled that the removal of a Supreme Court justice requires an accusation before the Chamber of Deputies and an institutional process, so, he argued, it cannot be resolved immediately.
According to ABC Color, Riveros also distinguished that mechanism from the case of former senator Kattya González, considering that a political trial is not comparable to a loss of immunity decided among peers in a matter of hours.
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