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Step by step the escalation of tension between the Government and the Court due to the judicial situation of Cristina Kirchner

2020-09-29T20:33:08.476Z


The move to try to remove Bruglia, Bertuzzi and Castelli began last July in the Council of the Magistracy and involved a coordinated action between the K-majority of the Magistracy, the Senate and the Government.


Daniel Santoro

09/29/2020 - 15:16

  • Clarín.com

  • Politics

On July 16, Kirchnerism

quietly launched an operation

to try to remove three judges who are investigating Vice President Cristina Kirchner with the excuse that they had not completed all the necessary steps for her transfer, which

Clarín

carried out exclusively two days after.

There were two and a half months of political and judicial friction that increased the escalation of tension between the Government and the Court and now puts

the country on the verge of a conflict of powers without the executive power and the Senate do not obey the highest court.

That request was made by the representative of the Government in the Council of the Magistracy and foster brother of the Minister of the Interior, Wado de Pedro,

Gerónimo Ustarroz

.

The following week, with the key vote of the Lavagnista deputy, Graciela Camaño, the K majority of the Magistracy Council asked the Government for its opinion on the transfers of ten judges, including Leopoldo Bruglia, Pablo Bertuzzi and German Castelli.

These ten had been transferred more than two years ago with the vote of the majority of the Magistracy and an endorsement of the Court regarding the mechanism.

A few days later, the Government

sent the documents of these judges to the Senate for the second time

, in a retroactive mechanism with no precedent in democracy.

Meanwhile, the three judges presented a per saltum appeal, which is the one that the Court approved this Tuesday, claiming for the principle of immobility of the judges and talking about "special procedures" prohibited by the Constitution.

On September 16, the K majority of the Senate, in a session chaired by Cristina and without the presence of the opposition of Together for Change,

refused to give a second agreement to Bruglia, Bertuzzi and Castelli

.

In

a record time of 12 hours,

President Alberto Fernández signed three decrees returning them to their original positions in oral courts in the Capital, La Plata and San Martín.

And the Chamber of Cassation accepted the decrees, while the Ks

stopped the contests

to replace the three judges in those oral courts.

After a series of pressures from Cristina and her operators such as Leopoldo Moreau, on September 22 the president of the Court, Carlos Rosenkrantz

called for an extraordinary agreement for this Tuesday

.

On Friday, President Fernández told Rosenkrantz and said "anyone who has studied law knows that this

is a legal scandal

."

This was not the only operation.

Since the government of Alberto Fernández took office, Kirchnerism has already implemented

more than ten moves on Justice

with the intention of improving the procedural situation of Cristina Kirchner or other of her former officials prosecuted in corruption cases, the majority taken during the quarantine by the coronavirus.

The most important were:

- Kirchnerism opens a debate around “political prisoners” versus “arbitrary preventive prisons”: all the former K officials

with preventive detention were left out except for the former Secretary of Transportation Ricardo Jaime and Juan Pablo Schiavi, among others

.

At the same time, it sets in motion the theory of lawfare.

- Cristina demanded that the Court act because of an editorial by journalist Carlos Pagni who said that the arrest of the former Secretary of Transportation K was negotiated through a criticism in the newspaper La Nación.

- The Secretary of Human Rights Horacio Pietragalla

asks the Justice for the house arrest for Ricardo Jaime.

- The Government achieves the approval of

a controversial retirement law for judges that has already led more than 60 magistrates to retire

and presents a judicial reform that has already been approved by the Senate.

The reform was stopped in Deputies after a scandal over the extension of the virtual operating protocol due to the coronavirus.

- Oral court judge Daniel Obligado

released Amado Boudou

, despite the fact that he was serving a sentence of 5 years and 10 months in prison for the Ciccone case.

- Cristina asks the Court to endorse the virtual sessions of the Senate and her advisor Graciana Peñafort warns that it will be "by reason or by blood."

The pressure is mainly against President Carlos Rosenkrantz.

The Court rejects the request.

- The Anti-Corruption Office

withdraws as a plaintiff in

the oral trial for money laundering in the Kirchner Hotesur and Los Sauces companies.

- The majority K of the Council of the Magistracy closes an administrative summary against the chambermaid Juan Ramos Padilla for offending his colleagues on Twitter.

- Carlos Zannini, Attorney General of the Treasury,

calls for the nullity of the oral trial for the cover-up of Iran in the AMIA case.

- Senator and former AFI head Oscar Parrilli

calls for the impeachment of prosecutor Carlos Stornelli and official defender Gustavo Kollmann

for the cause of the bribery notebooks.

- Kirchnerism in Congress tries to displace Interim Attorney General Eduardo Casal.

It changes the composition of the jury of prosecution and opens a question of privilege in the Senate, in an unprecedented measure.

- The attorney general of Lomas de Zamora Enrique Ferrari suspends an investigation into Moyano's lawyer, Daniel Llermanos.

The investigation has already been suspended 5 times and then the Buenos Aires Supreme Court suspends Ferrari.

- The Senate votes to remove the wiretapping office from the Court but the president of the Chamber of Deputies Sergio Massa negotiates for

DAJUDECO to be controlled by the lower house without turning that bill into law.

Before December 2019, with the endorsement of Cristina Kirchner, Roberto Baratta and Eduardo Valdés, among others, launched the "Operative Puf" against the causes of the Cuadernos de las Bribes.

Then in a historical discharge, Cristina warns the judges of the TOF 2 of Roads that "history has already judged me" and refuses to answer questions, in a challenge to Justice that this Tuesday had a brake but is still an endless arm wrestling .

Source: clarin

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