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The challenge that a Cristina-Macri dialogue does not end with an impunity pact

2020-10-27T20:41:47.313Z


The vice president opened the door to a specific agreement with the opposition. But at the top of his agenda a "solution" to his judicial problems remains firm.


Claudio Savoia

10/27/2020 5:26 PM

  • Clarín.com

  • Politics

Updated 10/27/2020 5:26 PM

In the text of her public letter, Cristina Kirchner released her usual diatribe against opposition politicians, the independent press and businessmen.

But she also

surprised with a call for those same actors to "agree" on

a solution to what she pointed out as the country's most serious problem: the bimonetary economy.

In these hours, that diffuse proposal caused calls, illusions and speculations regarding a possible handshake of Cristina with her successor and black beast, Mauricio Macri.

But the welcome possibility of an agreement

could include a dark side in its fine print: the impunity pact

for the serious corruption crimes for which Cristina is accused and those that could hinder Macri.

The substantive proclamation of the vice -which opened a melting pot of interpretations- for the first time officially opened a space for political negotiation with the opposition, which in principle limited to exploring responses to the financial and exchange crisis.

Precisely

the issue that a few paragraphs earlier had left in the exclusive hands of President Alberto Fernández.

But instead there is another issue that, against the wind, tide and pandemic, absorbs the days and nights of Cristina Kirchner:

find an escape door for her black judicial horizon

, constellated with corruption cases crammed with evidence and confessions.

It was said in these pages immediately after the selection of Alberto as head of the electoral ticket for the presidential elections: in addition to attracting a strip of the electorate refractory to his flamboyant figure, the former Chief of Staff was chosen for his alleged connections in the Judiciary and his ability to stop and deactivate the trials against Cristina.

The shrapnel from the candidate's statements regarding the judges who investigated her, his promise of a judicial reform that was only directed towards the federal jurisdiction and the relentless offensive to displace judges Bruglia, Bertuzzi and Castelli and also the attorney Eduardo Casal are indisputable evidence that

this primal agenda remains a top priority.

They are also proof of something else: that despite the litter of argument about the alleged

lawfare

,

the cases against Cristina can only be stopped if the judges, the repentant and the entire Judiciary are operated hard

, even at the risk of destabilizing the delicate institutional architecture of Argentina and feed the suspicions that the ruling party seeks to wipe out the division of powers.

But there would be another alternative to avoid that abyss.

Although activating it can bring Kirchnerism closer to another.

A pact of impunity

, conveniently covered with a commitment to governance, Moncloa agreement or any seal of the sort.

Let us clarify: a political and social agreement regarding the challenges of the economy, education and foreign policy is

not only necessary but also urgent, and will always be welcome.

But Argentines should be willing to assess a possible blur in the judicial prosecution of burdensome corruption crimes.

On Cristina's side, her intentions never passed through the screen of subtlety.

On Macri's side, the complaints against him are fewer and for now incipient, but

the former president is concerned about his future and especially that of his children,

shareholders in the Correo Argentino family business.

A few months ago there were already informal contacts between Alberto's chief adviser, Juan Manuel Olmos, and the macrista operator Daniel Angelici.

Embryonic conversations, drawings in the water.

But they were.

And in recent weeks the Golem has revived in political meetings with businessmen, in which

a possible amnesty bill was

discussed

,

which should be discussed and approved in Congress, as reported by journalist Débora Plager in

El Cronista

.

The intransigence K and the no less harsh obstinacy of the thousands of people who come crowding the streets every holiday to demand an end to impunity and a justice that judges corruption without hesitation make it difficult to imagine the forgetting of those principles in exchange for an agreement policy that may or may not have other benefits in the future.

But a table stretched out to try to find the cable that would deactivate the dollar did not seem possible either.

This is Argentina.

Source: clarin

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