Electoral director, Alejandro Tullio, made sure that the claim of the ARI before the Justice “is not for campaign funds” but it is a question of federal resources that are granted for the functioning of political forces.
“The order of the ARI has not to do with electoral funds but with the organization of a party congress in 2008″, clarified Tullio and told that “the order was not granted because the Department of the Interior has four million pesos for all the parties”.
Also he noticed that “50 thousand pesos were granted, in accordance with the criteria of contributions proportional to the number of affiliates, but the ARI did not agree and for it it impelled the cause”.
Following the complaint filed by the ARI, the National Electoral Appeals Court requested that the Interior Ministry provide information on the alleged irregularities, claiming it is “the authorities to provide information on their actions.”
The ARI filed a lawsuit after it received only 50,000 pesos from a total of 400,000 pesos it had demanded from the government. In the same period of time, the Peronist party, led by ex-president Néstor Kirchner had received 1.4 million pesos.
The trustee of the ARI, Deputy Adrián Pérez had denounced “a discriminatory action from the executive,” which he complained had “denied those funds to the ARI for no reason.”
