The day Alberto Fernández got into a fight with a journalist and promised not to reform the Justice: "Keep it, because I'm not lying"

08/02/2020 - 12:58

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Alberto Fernández announced on Thursday the judicial reform project and the video archive where the current President assured that he would not promote changes in the Justice began to circulate on social networks.

Such is the case of an interview in 2019, shortly before the presidential elections, where the then candidate of the Frente de Todos went to the Cadena 3 studio to be interviewed by journalist Mario Pereyra, with whom he maintained a strong counterpoint to Kirchner corruption. and for the possibility of a reform in the Justice. 

"I said five hundred times that what Mempo Giardinelli said or what Zaffaroni said is not my opinion," said Fernández based on statements about the need to introduce changes in the Justice.

In response, the host of the program insisted: Do you say that will not happen? Because I want to record it to have it. "And the challenging candidate stated: " Record it. He is going to keep it as a memory because he is not going to be able to do anything about it .

At any moment a video of the President appears telling a truth. pic.twitter.com/8kndgeLcUV

And he sentenced: "Keep it, because I do not lie. The one who lies is Macri. I am the son of a judge, I respect the rule of law. 30 years ago I taught at the University of Buenos Aires. He did not erase what I teach him my students . "

The video was replicated by the deputy Fernando Iglesias, whom Fernández alludes to in the video. "He does me the honor of mentioning himself before promising that he will not reform the Justice because he does not agree with the Kirchnerists," wrote the legislator of Together for Change.

The president in charge of the vice presidency @alferdez does me the honor of mentioning me before promising that he will not reform the Justice because he does not agree with the Kirchnerists.
What a shame it is to pancake everything. What a shame it is to be @ alferdezpic.twitter.com / h4RpbhFQOZ

And he accused the president of "pancake everything" , in reference to his change of position regarding the reform of Justice, after having made public his rejection on repeated occasions.

In the run-up to the presentation of the reform project, the most controversial point of which concerns the number of members of the Court of Justice and its operation, another video revealed the head of state.

"The Court is an institution in the country, it was born with five members. Cristina had the merit of returning five members so that the number of judges is not played with to have addicted judges. The truth is, the Court has five members and must have five members, the rest is fantasy ", stated in 2016 in the program" La Quinta Pata ", by Tevé Pública

Now, President Alberto Fernández has already sent the judicial reform project to Congress and it will be Cristina Kirchner who will be in charge of promoting the initiative so that its parliamentary treatment can move forward quickly "quickly" and that from next week on start treating him, while President Alberto Fernández has already warned that he is willing to accept "changes" to clear doubts from the opposition.