Article: ARGENTINA: POLITICAL TRIAL REMOVES MAYOR OF BUENOS AIRES FROM OFFICE.(Anibal Ibarra)

Buenos Aires Mayor Anibal Ibarra has been removed from office after exactly two-thirds of the Sala Juzgadora, the legislative judicial council set up to conduct a political trial, voted against him. The body of city deputies found him culpable for lapses in municipal control leading to a Dec. 30, 2004, nightclub fire that killed 194 people. Ibarra characterized the decision as "an institutional coup" orchestrated by his political enemies, while a majority of family members of the deceased celebrated the decision to remove him.

Ibarra will try to overturn decision in the courts

The vote was a major fall for Ibarra, a 48-year-old center-left politician ...

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