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{{Short description|Attribution of the federal government of Argentina}}
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'''Federal intervention''' ({{Langx|es|Intervención federal}}) is a power attributed to the [[government of Argentina|federal government]] of [[Argentina]], by which it takes control of a [[provinces of Argentina|province]] in certain extreme cases. Intervention is declared by the [[President of Argentina|President]] with the assent of the [[Argentine National Congress|National Congress]]. Article 6 of the [[Constitution of Argentina|Argentine Constitution]] states:<ref>{{cite constitution|article=6|polity=Argentina|date=15 December 1994}}</ref>
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The federal government intervenes in the territory of the provinces to guarantee the [[republic]]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]] or by the invasion of another province.
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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]] applied it in the province of [[Santiago del Estero Province|Santiago del Estero]] after a wave of grave accusations against governor [[Mercedes Aragonés de Juárez]] and her husband, the local ''[[caudillo]]'' [[Carlos Arturo Juárez|Carlos Juárez]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-148854-2010-07-04.html|work=[[Página/12]]|title=La definitiva muerte de un caudillo|date=4 July 2010|accessdate=17 November 2020|last=Dandan|first=Alejandra|language=Spanish}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Direct rule]]
*[[Federal interventor of Córdoba]]
*[[President's rule]] (A similar procedure used in [[India]])
*[[Federal execution]] (A similar procedure used in Germany)
** [[Reichsexekution]] (Its equivalent in the [[Holy Roman Empire]], [[German Empire]], and [[Weimar Republic]])

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