The huge effort of Cristina Kirchner to get out of the judicial problems

Nicolas Diana

11/22/2020 6:24 PM

• Clarín.com

• Politics

Updated 11/22/2020 6:24 PM

Since she became vice president, one of

main objectives

was to improve her judicial situation.

Since the start of the Alberto Fernández government, he managed to put men and women of his greatest confidence in key places in the judicial area of ​​the Cabinet.

But it was not the only move that Cristina promoted to try to alleviate her forehead in Justice that included, among other maneuvers, the attempt to run the chambermaids Leopoldo Bruglia and Pablo Bertuzzi, and the most recent move to change the way in which the president was elected. Attorney General, the first step to promote a candidate of your choice.

The effort of the vice president to get out of Justice, at this point,

But in fact, he feels that he has not been having the expected results.

The vice president knows that almost a year after the departure of Mauricio Macri and the arrival of the Front of All, his causes remain firm - despite some delays or delays - in the courts of Comodoro Py.

And she believes that

The darts are aimed, above all, at the Minister of Justice, Marcela Losardo, one of the civil servants "who do not work", according to the criteria she established in the harsh letter she wrote three weeks ago.

Cristina's anger with Losardo is not minor and reveals the vice's tensions with Alberto Fernández.

The minister is one of the most trusted officials of the President, she is his friend, she was his partner and

so reviled by the vice president.

In the Losardo area, Cristina managed to get the number two of the ministry, Juan Martín Mena, who already worked with her when she was president: she worked as undersecretary of the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI) when Oscar Parrilli commanded her.

The differences between Mena and Losardo are not minor despite the fact that they have known each other for years.

Félix Crous, the head of the Anti-Corruption Office, close to Cristina Kirchner.

He also managed to get the Anti-Corruption Office (OA) into the hands of Félix Crous, the former prosecutor and founder of Justicia Legítima.

Crous moved fast.

First, he ceased to be a plaintiff in the Hotesur and Los Sauces cases brought to oral proceedings.

And in October he went for more and withdrew from the lawsuits in all criminal cases.

Crous's decision includes just the causes where the vice president is being processed, but according to the former prosecutor it was due to an alleged "lack of personnel."

Although it had a strong symbolic effect, in fact the move of the new AB will not be able to stop these files.

One of the causes that worries her the most is that of the Highway Administration, which is in full oral proceedings.

That file investigates the direction of the public work in favor of Lázaro Báez, the friend and partner of Néstor Kirchner.

There, despite his efforts, he was unable to make the trial stop its march.

Only the pandemic made it slower - it was suspended for several months - but everything indicates that next year there will be a final verdict.

He managed to delay the start of the trial after the Justice accepted that an expert opinion be carried out - requested by the defense of the vice - of all the contracts entered into with Báez and Cristóbal López for the rental of hotel rooms. 

Cristina's terminals in key areas of Justice include

where the counselor

gains power

He is the foster brother of Eduardo "Wado" De Pedro, the Minister of the Interior very close to the vice.

Ustarroz was the one who promoted the report that questioned the transfers of Bruglia and Bertuzzi, the two chambermaids that the vice president is targeting for their actions in corruption cases, especially in that of the notebooks where they ratified the prosecution against her as head of an illicit association dedicated to the collection of bribes.

Carlos Beraldi, Cristina Kirchner's lawyer, was part of the commission of jurists that the President set up.

Photo Marcelo Carroll.

Even his lawyer, Carlos Beraldi, was a member of the commission of jurists promoted by the President to evaluate changes in the Supreme Court, the Procuratorate and the Council of the Magistracy.

Beraldi voted in favor of changing the way in which the Attorney General is elected so that he is no longer appointed by two thirds of the senators and becomes an absolute majority, about 37 votes.

Just what the tough Kirchnerism was looking for in the Senate, which already obtained an opinion last Friday and is preparing to debate it before the end of the ordinary sessions of Congress.

Although in the Senate it will pass without problems, the changes in the Procuratorate could be stopped in Deputies, as Clarín said.

It could be another bad news for Cristina.

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