The president of the Impeachment Commission of the Council of the Judiciary and former deputy K Héctor Recalde used
his power this Wednesday to postpone, once again, the drawing of instructors for the summaries for disciplinary offenses against judges Ariel Lijo and Alejo Ramos Padilla.
As soon as the meeting of that commission started, Recalde took the floor and said that “
it is not appropriate at this time due to a principle of primacy of reality
, when Judge Lijo is a candidate for the Supreme Court it is very difficult to discuss these issues and be objective.” .
“That is why my consideration is to postpone this, we cannot be oblivious to what is happening. Here on one side or another things are mixed, in this case of Lijo who
is possibly about to access the Supreme Court we should not discuss it in the Council
. My idea is to postpone the treatment,” he added in his letter to reject a request from Córdoba Senator Luis Juez that an instructor be assigned to these two summaries that Recalde has “been underfoot” for more than a year.
It is not known whether Recalde acted on his own or with the approval of former president Cristina Kirchner,
who until now, at least in public, has not expressed herself in favor or against Lijo's nomination.
Then the representative of the magistrates
and judge Alejandra Provitola said that “I support this postponement
because I did not see these writings” and the issues of Lijo and Ramos Padilla were postponed again.
For the senator judge, the move is "to
gain time by seeing
how the hand comes in the Senate" on Lijo's nomination that the Government sent to the Senate on Monday the document of the federal judge and that of the constitutionalist Carlos García-Mansila. There is time until May 8 to present challenges.
The case of Ramos Padilla
is a broad and detailed complaint by former PRO deputy Pablo Tonelli and Civic Coalition deputies Juan Manuel López and Paula Oliveto
because the former judge of Dolores and current judge of La Plata
“blatantly lied”
last year when declared as a witness in the impeachment trial of the Court promoted by Cristina Kirchner.
The complainants stated that Ramos Padilla incurred “
false testimony
in different passages of his statement,” which, in the opinion of the complainants, “configures a cause for poor performance in his duties.”
Ramos Padilla
falsely accused
the then deputy Tonelli of having leaked to the media the audios of the K prisoners in the Ezeiza prison where the case he opened in February 2019 against the false lawyer Marcelo D'Alessio and that was intended to be used to bring down the Bribery Notebooks case.
The federal judge of La Plata also stated that he had suffered “a political trial” when, in reality, the K majority had already twice rejected requests in that regard without initiating any process.
One from the former Minister of Justice of Mauricio Macri, German Garavano, and another from the president of Forensic Accountants Alfredo Popritkin, for having endorsed Operativo Puf against the cause of the Bribery Notebooks.
While the complaint against Lijo is also
from deputy Juan Manuel López for not having thoroughly investigated a presentation by Elisa Carrió
in the case of the controversial re-nationalization of YPF made by former president Cristina Kirchner. López denounces the judge for “poor performance for understanding that Ariel Lijo, for understanding that he carried out maneuvers in the cause of the social work of Justice with the sole purpose of maintaining the criminal action and arbitrarily delayed and dilated the resolution of documents that "They could put an end to the case or they sought to control the evidence in clear violation of due legal process," the sources recalled.
On the other hand, the plenary session of the Council of the Judiciary of the Nation
approved the elevation of shortlists with candidates for judges for Mar del Plata, Rafaela, Salta and the Federal Chamber of Social Security.
In addition, the file of the complaint against the judge of the Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation Juan Carlos Geminiani was returned to the Judiciary Labor Commission, which did not reach the votes to be dismissed within the 3-year period, who is accused of being sexist for his colleagues in that court.
In another section of the plenary session chaired by Horacio Rosatti, two opinions were approved to advance the full implementation of the federal criminal procedural code in the jurisdiction of Rosario. And progress was made in the implementation of a more agile contracting mechanism to meet the deadlines established in the Executive Branch Decree to put into effect on May 6 the adversarial system in that jurisdiction hit by drug trafficking.