01/10/2021 19:40
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 01/10/2021 7:41 PM
The same day that the request to demand the freedom of Amado Boudou came out, the former vice president assured that he never asked for a pardon in the face of the sentence ratified by the Court for corruption, but insisted on demanding "a prompt political solution" for the Kirchnerists who are condemned or with open processes.
It was hours after President Alberto Fernández assured in an interview with Clarín that he will not apply any pardon.
Boudou also spoke out against the decision of Judge Daniel Obligado that on December 30 he revoked his house arrest.
In this context, he said that behind that decision there was an attempt to cover up the official agenda of the
legal abortion
project
,
the arrival of the
Russian vaccine
and the law to change
retirement mobility.
"This had to be covered up and they turned to an old name to do it on the last day of the year. It is covering up an agenda in addition to continuing the persecution. The same will happen this year
. I have no doubt that the electoral agenda for this year it will be overshadowed by the judicial agenda on the vice president,
"said Boudou in an interview lasting more than an hour with radio
El Uncover.
"I will be one more anecdote in a story," continued the former official, "I am prepared to face everything I have to face without regretting anything I did, but
the political problem is severe and has to do with whether the Government is going to be able to to govern or not
, or just to manage ",
He added: "I never asked for a pardon; what I always said is that I would like there to be a trial to show that he was armed
, that Judge (Pablo) Bertuzzi was a kind of Moro judge in Argentina
, that they disguise themselves as judges to play to politics. "
Asked about the president's words on the pardon, Boudou said: "I am not the one to say which is the ideal tool to resolve this situation that the president already said is a catastrophe (...) I have nothing to say about this expression; we need Argentina to recover a reasonable law administration system and
not the party of the oligarchy that today commands the judicial system. "
The supreme court
In that sense, Boudou took a strong aim at the judiciary.
He said that with "political persecution" and lawfare "the ultimate goal is for
the Supreme Court
to become the guarantor of the oligarchic powers, of the concentrated and minority powers."
And he considered that "the sentences caused by the judiciary or the arrests are the institutional validation
of sentences and media convictions."
In this way,
Boudou pointed out to the media for the resolution of December 30: "
Two Clarín covers were enough for the judge to change, without arguments
, his point of view that he had had several months before, and without waiting for the reports that had requested to the Federal Penitentiary Service ".
"A conditional democracy"
Can you imagine a quick political solution to the issue of "political prisoners"?
They asked the former Minister of Economy.
Boudou replied: "I hope so, not because of my case, imagine that I already spent 3 years in prison and 8 years of permanent persecution, but because of Argentine democracy."
He completed: "A country where the main political victim is the vice president elected a year ago
is a conditional democracy
that has no destination because it is a mechanism so that governments cannot exercise popular representation."
Mauricio Macri and the "judicial table"
Boudou, in this context, strongly targeted the government of Mauricio Macri both from the judicial and economic levels.
The economist considered that it was an "Orwellian government", which was the stage "with less independence from the judiciary" that existed in Argentina and pointed to the former minister Germán Garavano.
"
Garavano had a group of people to articulate or squeeze with judges or prosecutors. They
squeezed the chambermaids to leave their place or they fired them by decree to put people who served their objectives of persecution as the case of Bertuzzi who was the judge who he condemned me, "he said.
He added: "And later when this man (Bertuzzi) has to go to Congress to do the constitutional process, he decides not to go because he cannot explain what he did. Of the ten documents that the President sent to Congress, only three were not,
those that did not they could explain why they were there, how they were there and what they had done. "
He concluded on the subject: "The fight to keep them there today is because they are the guarantors of Macri's impunity.
There is coverage and an impunity arrangement by these people regarding the figure of Macri and his team."
Regarding the economic plane, Boudou said that in Congress there must be an investigation with political and criminal consequences regarding the debt taken in the Macri government.
"
Macri caused Argentina to be the worst country in the world in debt to the IMF.
They are not saying things as they are and when they are not said later, we do not complain if characters like these can once again have relevant places in the future."
Everyone's Front
Boudou vindicated different measures of the Fernández government such as the handling of the pandemic, the IFE ("it must continue", he said), the law of great fortunes (it celebrated the shared project of Máximo Kirchner and Carlos Heller), the law of Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy and that of retirement mobility.
"The post-pandemic does not exist,
the moment to make structural decisions is now
, but I understand that our front has many points of view and one cannot be offended, but rather contribute in loving and purposeful terms to sustaining unity," he said.
Among those decisions, Boudou considered that
public services should now be nationalized.
Referring on the other hand to the wiretapping in jail and the ongoing case, he said he did not see the "Republicans" scandalized by it.
And he added: "I do not see anyone being too scandalized by something that is scandalous, not even our government."
Would you return to exercise public function?
In another part of the report, Boudou was asked if he would return to public office in case his sentence for Ciccone was dropped, which disqualifies him from doing so.
"I am interested in being a militant and that is not going to be taken out of me by any law, you can be a militant from jail, your home and from a public position as well.
They will not shut me up, bend, change,
or even remove the joy of working and fighting for the things I feel and our space has, which is love and equality. I am to be in the place that my colleagues and the people think I can be of any use. The answer is yes, of course yes".
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