Federal intervention () is a power attributed to the

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, by which it takes control of a

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in certain extreme cases. Intervention is declared by the

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with the assent of the

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. Article 6 of the

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states:

The federal government intervenes in the territory of the provinces to guarantee the
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an form of government or to repel foreign invasions, and upon request of its authorities created to sustain or re-establish them, if they have been deposed by
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or by the invasion of another province.

Upon intervention, the branches of the provincial government are dissolved, and the federal government must appoint a new authority (called ''interventor'') who will serve for a short term until the situation is normalized. The most recent example of intervention took place in 2004, when President

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applied it in the province of

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after a wave of grave accusations against governor

Mercedes Aragonés de Juárez Mercedes Mariana "Nina" Aragonés de Juárez (born 12 September 1929) is an Argentine politician who was Governor of Santiago del Estero Province from 2002 to 2004. The wife of longtime governor and local ''caudillo'' Carlos Arturo Juárez, Ar ...

and her husband, the local ''

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'' Carlos Juárez.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Federal Intervention Government of Argentina Law of Argentina Federalism

See also

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