Macri uses prosecutor to take office 12 hrs. early and bar predecessor from inaugural. [View all]

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The director of the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI), Oscar Parrilli, told reporters this afternoon that “conditions are not given” for outgoing President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to attend the swearing-in ceremony in Congress next Thursday for President-elect Mauricio Macri.

The decision came after Federal Prosecutor Jorge Di Lello upheld an injunction filed by Macri asserting that President Fernández de Kirchner’s term ends Wednesday, December 10, at midnight - 12 hours before the actual end of the constitutionally mandated term of four exact years (Article 90).

After a crisis meeting held earlier today at the Senate Office Building between Parrilli, Presidential Chief of Staff Eduardo de Pedro, and representatives from Macri's right-wing PRO party, the director of the AFI explained that as a result the president cannot attend the swearing-in because if “they are saying she will no longer be the president, she could easily be charged with usurping public offices" if she does appear at Macri's swearing-in without his invitation.

Di Lello’s decision, which must be reviewed no later than tomorrow by Appellate Judge María Servini de Cubría, contradicted statements made by the National Notary Public Natalio Etchegaray, who on Monday assured that the Head of State would end her term when the president-elect is sworn in Thursday at noon as President Kirchner herself was.

"We consider this matter closed. She won’t attend Congress under these circumstances, and will instead let the incoming president take office when he considers he must do so,” Parrilli said, warning as well that due to its failure to act the judiciary will leave the country without a president for 12 hours.

The situation, he concluded, is “institutionally serious. I don’t see any difference between this and a coup.”

At: http://buenosairesherald.com/article/204596/parrilli-cfk-wont-attend-congress-under-these-circumstances
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Di Lello is one of a number of prosticutors controlled by Macri, to the point that they will actually move up the presidential inaugural 12 full hours to suit their boss.

You can imagine what stooges like him might do once da boss actually takes office (the GOP is no doubt taking notes).