About the end of an emotional event in the National Congress for the 40 years of the recovery of democracy and 34 years of NOTICIAS Magazinethe president of the Court, Horacio Rosatti, gave a strong speech with political overtones. “We know that many things divide us, but there are others, the most important, those that unite us. I don’t want any special title for the media, I simply remember what the Constitution says. There are people who have or want to have public responsibilities and have never read the Constitution,” he said.
“You can’t say anything about Malvinas. We voted for it. They cannot be rented, they cannot be sold, because the Constitution says so. And the clause is temporary because we believe that we are going to recover the Malvinas, we must do it through peaceful means,” said Rosatti after receiving his distinction for having participated in the 1994 Constituent Convention. And he added: “And when we talk about the validity of human rights and the defense of the currency, it is in the Constitution. The thing is that you have to read it.”
At the NEWS event in Congress, this Monday the 13th, they took the stage with Rosatti Juan Carlos Maqueda, Jorge Yoma, Eduardo Valdés, Horacio Massaccesi, Elva Roulet, Enrique Paixao, Eduardo Barcesat and Juan Pablo Cafiero.
“In Santa Fe we met in 1994, that’s why it’s special for me. Many thanks to Jorge Fontevecchia and to the NEWS director. “I am very honored by this distinction,” said the president of the Court. And he completed: “The reform of ’94 was the last act of political greatness that involved all Argentine political sectors. We had enormous differences in thought, but one objective, national unity, was in the preamble.”
As Rosatti recalled, “we started with many conflicts. It was a convention that started with bad press because many said it was for the president’s re-election. And the president’s re-election became an anecdote.” Then he added: “When the convention ended, a little less than three months later we all went to Concepción del Uruguay to swear it in. That historic moment was never repeated again.. There was a crack before and there was a crack after.”
Rosatti had already been involved in the political campaign after speaking about National Unity, which coincides with Sergio Massa’s campaign slogan. The supreme assures that this arises from the Magna Carta: “If this was 30 years ago, how can we not be able to do it now. The spirit of these types of meetings goes in that direction. There is a general mood of boredom and we must return to harmony, recreate the points of consensus. We know that many things divide us, but there are others that unite us.”
Regarding the end, Rosatti said: “We did all this by representatives of political parties that thought differently, but it could be done. I was very young and I was able to meet people like Raúl Alfonsín, Cafiero, Duhalde. The political parties put in their best men and women. We could have done it 30 years ago, how could we not do it now,” he indicated. And he concluded: “We must defend the Constitution. We do it from the Judiciary and that is why we demand the independence of the Judiciary. Because it is one of the pillars of the republican system.”
