Weekly Report - 14 May 2015 (WR-15-19)

With the end of Kirchnerismo now in sight, the government is making a renewed push to ensure the movement’s influence, particularly within the country’s judiciary, continues beyond 2015, regardless of who wins the elections in October. In the latest skirmish, the impeachment commission of Argentina’s chamber of deputies, which is dominated by pro-government politicians, voted in favour of opening an investigation process into the fitness for office of Carlos Fayt, the 97-year-old supreme court judge.