Pablo de Leon
09/30/2020 - 10:24
Clarín.com
Politics
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner already knew the result of the Supreme Court ruling.
President Alberto Ángel Fernández, too.
The vice president was in her Buenos Aires department of Juncal and Uriburu, absorbed in her Senate affairs.
The head of state, in Rosario, bringing aid (that is, millions of pesos) to a city and a province, Santa Fe, punished by the COVID drama.
But both officials followed the second, what happened in Talcahuano 550, seat of the Palace of the Courts, and where they have their comfortable offices and deliberate, the judges of the Supreme Court of Justice presided over by Carlos Rosenkrantz.
Once the resolution that accepted the per saltum of judges Bruglia, Bertuzzi and Castelli,
silence prevailed in the national government, no official spoke
, while the President returned from Rosario and spent his cell phone chatting on the subject.
Just his friend and today, a regular in Olivos, Congressman Eduardo Valdés went out to lash out at the Court on channel C5N.
Later, at the Ministry of Justice, the minister of the sector, Marcela Miriam Losardo - Alberto Fernández's legal associate - and her deputy, the Kirchnerist vice minister Juan Martín Mena met.
During that conclave,
Mena's phone rang.
It was Cristina.
And she gave her the order: "I went out to talk."
And thus, this lawyer with an active relationship and ties in the judiciary was the voice of the Government.
Losardo did not speak this Tuesday, Mena did.
"It caught my attention that they have accepted it (per saltum). Media groups and certain sectors of the opposition pressured the Supreme Court. Obviously some members of the Court are influential," Mena said in a television interview.
Judges of the Supreme Court arriving at the courthouse to discuss the removal of judges Juan Carlos Maqueda, Ricardo Lorenzetti, Carlos Rosenkrantz and Horacio Rosatti
That was
the line that came down from the Instituto Patria
, a Kirchnerist bunker, where Cristina and Máximo Kirchner have offices: that
the "media climate" and "the pressures" gave results in influencing the Court.
The "media climate" would be the media and journalists critical of Cristina's move in the Senate to transfer those three judges and "the pressures", the protests or the honking, like the one suffered in Rafaela by Judge Ricardo Lorenzetti, who In Kirchnerism, they award armed forces from Together for Change, the opposition coalition of Mauricio Macri, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Patricia Bullrich, among others
Who is Juan Martín Mena?
He is a lawyer for oiled relations in the Justice, who was Oscar Isidro Parrilli's second in the
Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI) in the last CFK term.
It was imposed as 2 of the Ministry of Justice by Cristina.
K is an active judicial spokesperson, along with lawyer Graciana Peñafort, who also spoke (this Wednesday) and said that, with the recent ruling, "The Court shot itself in the feet."
As Pablo Ibáñez told in Clarín, Cristina found out about the ruling (which stopped the K offensive against judges Bruglia, Bertuzzi and Castelli) minutes after noon.
That in her and her surroundings, there was surprise and discomfort because until Monday, there was a general conviction in Kirchnerism that the Court would not accept the fast track.
"If these are the rules, we will have to accept it and we will start with the transfers as Macri did," an official with direct ties to the vice president confided, annoyed, according to Ibáñez.
Cristina Fernández has
several swords in the judicial field, such as Juan Martín Mena and Eduardo Valdés
, as well as her lawyer - and today, a member of the Advisory Council that runs parallel with the judicial reform - Carlos Beraldi.
But the one who trusts the most for these tasks is Eduardo De Pedro.
"Wadito", as CFK calls the Minister of the Interior, who has an interesting arrival at various members of the Supreme Court of Justice.
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And now what will Cristina plot?
Cristina Kirchner found out before the ruling, considered it "ambiguous" and bet on a quick decision on the merits