translated from Spanish: What is the confrontation between the Electoral Chamber and Servini de Cubria about?

On the eve of the primary elections to renew legislative positions at the national level, the judges of the National Electoral Chamber publicly clashed with the magistrate with electoral competence, María Servini de Cubria. The conflict began when the woman in charge of the elections sent a note to the Supreme Court where she denounced the “interference” of the CNE in matters that correspond to the electoral courts of each province. 
This “constant interference” of the agency that worked together with the Ministry of Health and the Interior, caused for Servini “serious circumstances” when organizing the elections. After the Court sent Servini’s proposal, the Electoral Chamber responded today, assuring that such exposures “produce confusion and din in the electorate.” Far from promoting trust in institutions, they abound in the discredit and uneasiness of those who must fulfill their civic obligations,” said Judges Santiago Corcuera, Alberto Dalla Vía and Daniel Bejas.

The members of the National Electoral Chamber, Santiago Corcuera (left) and Alberto Dalla Via | Photo: NA

The conflict between these two cells of Justice was produced by the protocol that the CNE elaborated with Health and Interior, which for Servini is an interference in the work of the electoral courts. That protocol stipulated, for example, two hours of priority for voters at age at risk due to the pandemic to attend to vote or to queue outside the polling stations, on the street. 

For the federal judge of the City of Buenos Aires, the schedule for at-risk voters must be throughout the day and the establishments that can accommodate the lines inside must do so.” The measures adopted in this protocol, like the others that this House has been establishing for a long time, in no way imply an interference in the orbit of competence of the judges of first instance, “they indicated from the CNE.

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