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Weekly Report - 16 October 2014 (WR-14-41)
ARGENTINA: Government and opposition square up over supreme court
The death, on 12 October, of the supreme court justice Enrique Petracchi had no judicial significance in itself. It followed the death of Carmen María Argibay, another supreme court justice, in May this year and reduced the number of judges on Argentina’s highest judicial body from seven to five, as envisaged by a law passed in December 2006 by the government of former president Néstor Kirchner (2003-2007). But the news that Raúl Zaffaroni, the judge most sympathetic to the Kirchnerista cause, would step down at the end of this year has prompted a flurry of speculation about who might be nominated to take his place in an election year.
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