Federal intervention () is a power attributed to the
federal government
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of
Argentina
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, by which it takes control of a
province
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in certain extreme cases. Intervention is declared by the
President
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with the assent of the
National Congress. Article 6 of the
Argentine Constitution
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states:
The federal government intervenes in the territory of the provinces to guarantee the republic
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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 sedition
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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
Néstor Kirchner
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applied it in the province of
Santiago del Estero
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after a wave of grave accusations against governor
Mercedes Aragonés de Juárez and her husband, the local ''
caudillo
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''
Carlos Juárez.
See also
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Direct rule
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Federal interventor of Córdoba
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President's rule (A similar procedure used in
India
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)
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Federal execution (A similar procedure used in Germany)
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Reichsexekution
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(Its equivalent in the
Holy Roman Empire
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,
German Empire
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, and
Weimar Republic
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)
References
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