Daniel Santoro
02/16/2021 11:01 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 02/16/2021 11:01 PM
Hard Kirchnerism
yesterday
redoubled
its offensive on Justice with four steps and
revived
the intern at the Frente de Todos for an eventual pardon or amnesty.
On the one hand, the former judge of the Court and advisor to Cristina Kirchner, Eugenio Zaffaroni, asked Congress for an
"amnesty law"
for former K officials convicted of corruption, after setting up "a Truth of lawfare commission" .
And for the first time, Zaffaroni
threatened
the highest court
with a march of a million people
on the Palace of Justice if it continues to confirm convictions like those of former Vice President Amado Boudou in the Ciccone case.
He said that the Court tried to "
wet the ear of President Alberto Fernández
, with the confirmation of a conviction for threats to Sala."
On the other hand, the director of Legal Affairs of Cristina's Senate, Graciana Peñafort, asked Fernández to
"pardon, in the very specific case, Milagro Sala
.
"
As a third measure, the vice president's lawyer, Carlos Beraldi, will
present an extraordinary appeal
to the Federal Court of Criminal Cassation
tomorrow Wednesday
.
Beraldi, also a lawyer for businessman K Cristóbal López, wants the Court to
annul
the decision to send the cases of alleged illegal macrista espionage from the Lomas de Zamora courts to Comodoro Py.
And in the fourth term, the senator and Cristina's alter ego, Oscar Parrilli "tried to be
" accomplices of macrismo "
to" legislators who are allies of ours who until now have not given the ok to sanction "the judicial reform. The allusion was for the block of deputies that responds to the former Minister of Economy Roberto Lavagna
In the extraordinary sessions, the K also want the changes in the law of the public prosecutor's office to be approved to dismiss the chief prosecutor.
Beraldi warned that if they will not accept it, he will
request the impeachment of all the judges of Cassation who reject it
.
And he announced that, on the other hand, he will
challenge
federal judge María Eugenia Capuchetti and prosecutor Carlos Stornelli who would stay with those causes.
With these causes, Cristina wants to demonstrate her theory of lawfare.
She does not want a pardon or an amnesty because it would mean accepting that she is guilty, but rather being declared innocent.
From the opposition, the president of the Together for Change bloc, Mario Negri replied: "Some Kirchnerists are
asking
for
clemency
for politicians imprisoned for stealing (who are not political prisoners), others are
asking for an amnesty law
."
"In Kirchnerism they do not agree on the tool
but everyone wants impunity
", thus synthesized the situation the Cordovan legislator.
The request for pardon to the leader of the Tupac Amaru and other K President Fernández, already rejected it at the beginning of January when he said that "it is a
monarchical hindrance
that remains in the Constitution."
Although he could only pardon Sala
in federal court cases
, such as the so-called "Pibes Villeros."
But not because of the sentences of the provincial justice.
Zaffaroni, who is a judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, explained that his strategy involves "
removing
the responsibility from the President (Alberto Fernández)" with a pardon.
Then, he reiterated that deputies K should propose the creation of
"a Truth Commission"
to review the causes of corruption and determine if "there was corruption or lawfare."
Then, based "on the general characteristics of lawfare applied to each case,
an amnesty law must be made
."
However, until last Friday, no deputy K had presented any project in the sense to the Parliamentary secretary, informed legislative sources.
Furthermore, the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Sergio Massa, told the Spanish newspaper El País last month that "an amnesty for corruption cases
would be absurd and a great mistake
."
With a critical tone, Zaffaroni warned that “the government's tactic with respect to the Judiciary
is dangerous
.
It gives me the feeling that he is letting it act until this produces
a massive public reaction
.
"
He estimated that the government hopes that "there will be a public reaction to the scandal, which is unprecedented" in democracy.
"This makes a dent in public opinion. Just as one day with 2x1 a million people took to the streets, probably
another million people will come out at some point,
" he warned.
He referred to the case of the former repressor Muiña to whom the Court in September 2017 applied the benefit of 2 years in prison to 1 for good behavior.
After a massive protest, Congress changed the law and the Court reviewed the ruling.
The former Supreme Court judge
pointed directly
against the members of the highest court and compared them to the infamous decade and Menemism.
"That Court of the infamous decade had a political coherence and it was predictable no matter how much one criticized it as an oligarch. The Menemist Court was also predictable no matter how much one stood on the opposite sidewalk. In this Court the only predictable one is Rosenkrantz,
the rest I don't know,
"he said.
He did so in line with Cristina's public letter from December in which she untrained each of the members of the highest court.
When requesting the pardon for Sala, Peñafort commented that "there are certain situations where the Court
handles impunity
, the pardon would be a way to see how it continues. As a restoration of the value of justice."
"If not,
we are accepting as legitimate
the rulings of a court that are not
legitimate
," said Peñafort.
For the director of Legal Affairs of the Senate, the decisions of the Court are not legitimate.
And he continued: "In the very specific case of Milagro Sala,
Alberto should pardon her
."
On the list to be pardoned are the former officials Amado Boudou, Luis D'Elía, Ricardo Jaime, among other K leaders convicted of corruption in the courts.
Including the defendants in an eventual pardon would open another judicial debate.
"If they want to pardon people who are on trial, there is no such institute
, that is an amnesty and it depends on Congress
, it does not depend on me. For there to be a pardon, there must be someone convicted," said Peñafort.
On Monday, Milagro Sala had asked the President to pardon her and her fellow prisoners, after the Supreme Court upheld the sentence to two years in prison for threats to policemen, in the framework of the case known as "Causa de las Bombachas ".
The social leader, imprisoned since 2016, asked Alberto Fernández to pardon her.
"Not only to me, but to all the companions", remarked Sala.
In the last hours, she was joined by Luis D'Elía, who said that "I am a victim of the Cambiemos Judicial Table. I am pardoning now for all political prisoners, comrade Alberto Fernández."
The piquetero leader wrote it on his Twitter account.
D'Elia is serving a sentence of three years and nine months in prison for the takeover of the 24th police station in La Boca, which occurred in 2004 and for attacking an agricultural producer.