The Marcela Losardo debacle advances a new attack by Cristina against Justice and the opposition

Daniel Santoro

03/06/2021 19:39

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Updated 03/06/2021 8:17 PM

In Justice and in the opposition they

predict

that the debacle of Marcela Losardo in the Ministry of Justice heralds new attacks by Cristina Kirchner to try to improve her judicial situation.

"We are going to moments of

high tension

against Justice," predicted a UCR deputy who knows the ins and outs of Justice.

The end of Losardo, in addition, shows that "

there are no more spaces for nuances

" within the government in terms of defending the personal judicial agenda of the vice president, who is on trial in eight cases.

The former minister had tried last week to approach Kirchnerism with

an extensive Twitter where she criticized the prosecutor Carlos Stornelli

and approached the positions of Cristina and the Instituto Patria.

In

a twist

from his moderate position.

He did so despite the fact that in 2019 he had privately defended the prosecutor in the case of the Notebooks who, before the change of government, had a good relationship with Alberto.

But on Monday, President Alberto Fernández in his speech before Congress announced the creation of a bicameral commission to carry out

a “cross control”

of Justice, abandoning his original request to end the crack.

The next day, Cristina's minions, Senator Oscar Parrilli and the Director of Senate Legal Affairs, Graciana Peñafort,

celebrated

 the alignment of the president and the idea of ​​the commission for judges and prosecutors to attend Congress.

It was, as they tried to do with the chambermaids Leopoldo Bruglia and Pablo Bertuzzi, a show of false accusations and denunciations of the lawfare story.

But Minister Losardo clarified that the commission "was

not

going to be able to sanction or remove" magistrates and there he threw the last shovel on his political grave.

And, above all, he said that it was

"unconstitutional" to

take such measures.

He only explained that the judges can be removed by the Council of the Magistracy and the members of the Court by an impeachment of the Congress.

But this is how it

emptied

another tool that the K against Justice

devised of content

.

Losardo did not understand that the President on March 1

had handed over to Cristina the government's relationship with the Justice.

Until last week, the partner and friend of President Alberto Fernández

resisted in office.

Especially

the fights

against his second and former number two of the AFI and main operator of the Instituto Patria en la Justicia, Juan Martín Mena.

For the former Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, the fall of Losardo and the eventual assumption of Martín Soria "shows that Cristina realized that she

does not have enough time

" to improve her judicial situation.

And he needs "a minister who will

rush

his strategy of impunity at any cost."

Especially with the parliamentary elections in October getting

closer and closer.

For her part, Graciela Camaño, a deputy for the Lavagnista bloc, regretted "

Losardo's departure

very much

. She always honored the positions he held in the State" and considered that his eventual resignation "

weakens

President Alberto Fernández" within the ruling alliance.

In the opposition they also believe that Losardo "

got tired of mortgaging his prestige

and defending positions before the Justice that are not his," said a representative of the National Magistracy Council.

During his tenure, Losardo never officially visited that body and left the relationship to Gerónimo Ustarroz, foster brother of the Minister of the Interior, Wado de Pedro.

Losardo's

first

major resistance

was last year when he urged career official Emilio Blanco to head the Federal Penitentiary Service, but finally Mena won the tug of war.

And Alberto named the founder of “Justicia Legítima”, former judge María Laura Garrigós.

The Ks took out Blanco as part of their Operation Puf against the cause of the Cuadernos de las Bribes.

At the end of last year, the blow came from the president of the Bicameral commission, the ultra-Christian Leopoldo Moreau, who criticized it because

"he only defended"

the nomination of Judge Daniel Rafecas as eventual attorney general of the Nation.

And not to the rest of the K measures against Justice.

He never spoke, either, of "political prisoners", nor did he support the complaints of alleged illegal macrista espionage.

Moreau had

the bicameral Intelligence Commission

write

a report

on the Court's wiretapping office - called DAJuDeCO - to attack the member of the Court, Ricardo Lorenzetti, and the chambermaid Martín Irurzun.

In addition, Moreau announced that they were going to denounce "a systematic plan" of alleged persecution against Cristina

in a second report that is not yet known.

​

This is

another

of the measures that Cristina is preparing, especially after the sentence to 12 years in prison of Lázaro Báez in the case of La Ruta del Dinero K and with the new Minister of Justice.

The vice president is concerned that the case for laundering against her business partner will end up being

a mirror

of the Hotesur and Los Sauces cause.

Is that Losardo

remained silent

on the Judicial Reform project after the Ks negotiated with the governors in the Senate to add

almost a thousand more positions

in exchange for votes.

He never publicly supported the project to reform the law of the public prosecutor's office with which Cristina wants to dismiss the interim chief prosecutor Eduardo Casal and Stornelli, two of her obsessions.

Then the Ks brought up that between April 2016 and June 2017,

Losardo was an advisor to Macri's Human Rights Secretary, Claudio Avruj.

Nor did they forgive him for attending the annual dinner of the Association of Magistrates and Officials of the Judicial Power of the Nation.

The minister has a very good relationship with judges and prosecutors since the study she shares with the president

in the offices of Callao 1960

, between Alvear and Posadas.

Dozens of judges and prosecutors stopped by that study for coffee before December 2015.

The head of the bloc of deputies of Together for Change, Mario Negri, reiterated that whoever the Minister of Justice in the lower house is,

they will not give

the necessary votes to approve any of those two initiatives of hard-line Kirchnerism.

In the opposition and in Comodoro Py there is more concern for the eventual replacement, Martín Soria, whom they consider "

a Taliban, a fan of Cristina

and the Instituto Patria."

For example, following Cristina's strategy, Soria presented - last year - a complaint against Mauricio Macri's "judicial table" accusing its members of having invented causes against Kirchnerism.

And then he made several denunciations of Cristina with

more political than judicial charge

.

The last one was the officially registered visits of the president of the Criminal Cassation Chamber Gustavo Hornos to visit Macri at the Casa Rosada.

The K were suddenly forgotten when in 2013 the

acting

vice president

Amado Boudou visited the member of the Court Eugenio Zaffaroni on his 73rd birthday ...

For now, it will be Soria or whoever replaces Losardo who will be in charge of ending the complaint against former president Mauricio Macri for the request to the IMF for a loan of 45 billion dollars.

It will be the first time that the complaint is not presented by a legislator K or a member of the Fatherland, but surely the Ministry of Justice

in institutional form

.