10/20/2020 14:10
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 10/20/2020 2:10 PM
The Supreme Court of Justice postponed the decision on the judges that the Government seeks to transfer, after failing to reach an agreement at the meeting held on Tuesday.
The discussion about the fate of the three judges - the chambermaids
Pablo Bertuzzi
and
Leopoldo Bruglia
and Judge
Germán Castelli
- has been on the public agenda for several months.
In July of this year, Kirchnerism asked
the Magistracy Council to
review the transfers of Bruglia, Bertuzzi and Castelli and seven other magistrates promoted during the government of Mauricio Macri.
These three names stood out on the list because, as chambermaids, the first two ratified the prosecutions of Cristina Kirchner and other former officials of her administration in the case of the Cuadernos de las Bribes, and in turn Castelli is a member of the Federal Oral Court 7 , the person in charge of carrying out the oral stage of the same investigation.
The Senate, with a large Kirchnerist majority,
revoked those three transfers
on the grounds that they had been designated by agreement of the same chamber
in other destinations
, thereby ordering them to return to their original positions.
This kind of transfers, however, were
authorized by the Supreme Court of Justice
several times in recent years and have been done regularly since the 1990s.
According to an official count,
65 judges have been transferred
since that time
, 23 of which were carried out during the Néstor and Cristina Kirchner administrations.
To try to continue in their positions and reverse the Senate decision -which was also ratified by President Alberto Fernández- Bruglia, Bertuzzi and Castelli made presentations before the Justice and also requested a
per saltum
process
for the Supreme Court to directly address the issue
, a request that was accepted by the magistrates, who met virtually on Tuesday.
The five judges of the Court, Carlos Rosenkrantz, Horacio Rosatti, Ricardo Lorenzetti, Juan Carlos Maqueda and Helena Highton had been working on their rulings for days and
under total secrecy
.
They did not want the details of each other's decision to be known or anticipated.
A week ago, in another of the virtual meetings, they discussed the situation of the magistrates but did not reach an agreement.
On Saturday,
Clarín
announced that the ruling would be imminent because at least two ministers of the Court proposed that projects be exchanged and
consensus be sought to vote
.
Beyond the discussion within the Court, the context in which they will issue a solution is one of
maximum political tension
.
The Government has an eye on the court over which it distrusts and accuses of playing against it.
Above all they
target the president of the Court
, Carlos Rosenkrantz.
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