Guido Carelli Lynch
05/04/2021 19:03
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 05/04/2021 21:24
After the Supreme Court ruling in favor of the City, the Government - used to asserting its toughest positions in off - brought out all its
discursive artillery in
front of the lighted microphones and on social networks.
Cristina Kirchner
set the temperature of the responses to the Judiciary; The President, the Minister of Justice
Martín Soria
and the Chief of Cabinet
Santiago Cafiero
, among others,
followed in his footsteps
. There was even an
official document
from the Secretary of Press and Communication, Juan Pablo Biondi, which reflects the institutional position of the Executive Power regarding the judicial decision.
In the Casa Rosada they affirm that the Court's ruling will not alter the Government's sanitary guidelines. For the most powerful ministers of the Cabinet, the ruling of the highest Court does not concern the DNU in force until May 21, but the previous one, which has already expired. They emphasize that the current regulations do not mention the AMBA, but rather the areas under epidemiological alert (including Gran Mendoza and Gran Rosario).
In this way, they affirm that if the City and the Head of Government Horacio Rodríguez Larreta insist on face-to-face classes, they will be exposed to demands and sanctions, since
there is already a "concurrent act" -as claimed by the Court-
that obliges them, in Allusion to the definitions of the Federal Council of Education of this same Tuesday in which 22 provinces - with the exception of CABA and Mendoza - coincided with the criteria to define when and how they should close the classrooms. The same arguments were outlined in the extensive 20-point response from the Communication secretariat.
Meanwhile, the Government is rushing to send a bill to Congress to regulate the administration of the pandemic.
"We want to depoliticize the pandemic," they point out in Balcarce 50. In the Casa Rosada they affirmed that the judicialization of politics and the excessive politicization of Justice does not escape the Court.
"The ruling does not contribute anything because it talks about a DNU that has now lost its validity, and which was replaced by another that is not an extension, but a different one, with a proposal of metrics. With the ruling, the priority right to life was neglected", argued the officials closest to the President and affirmed that the autonomy of the City is not equivalent to independence.
In addition, in the Cabinet they added that the Conurbano -where face-to-face classes were suspended- the contagiousness index fell more than in the Capital.
10 days ago, in the most important offices of Balcarce 50 they did not expect a ruling against;
nor is it a Solomonic decision.
In recent days, optimism turned into a pessimism that found in an unprecedented case
Carlos Rosenkrantz on
the same side as
Carlos Maqueda, Horacio Rosatti and Ricardo Lorenzetti
and against the proposal of the Executive.
The differences between Albertism and Kirchnerism, which at the weekend reached their climax around the denial of resignation of the Undersecretary of Electric Power
Federico Basualdo,
were blurred.
They all punished the highest court without half measures.
Pending her own judicial agenda, the vice president anticipated the ruling of the Court to request the annulment of the trial for the
memorandum of understanding with Iran
and again pointed to the private meetings of the chambermaids
Mariano Borinsky and Gustavo Hornos
to
Mauricio Macri
as irrefutable evidence of the existence of lawfare, a systematic plan by the judiciary, the media and politics to imprison leaders.
A while later, when the dimension of the ruling was known, Cristina Kirchner was lapidary with the highest Court. "Today, the Court has just decided, in the midst of a pandemic decreed by the WHO, a health emergency sanctioned by the National Congress and with more than 65,000 deaths in Argentina, that the National Executive Power does not have powers to take health measures", wrote on Twitter.
In her conclusion, the vice president - who at the beginning of a long thread on the social network questioned the ruling of the contentious administrative chamber that gave rise to the Telecom proposal - suggested the existence of a plan to destabilize the Judiciary. Given this scenario, I say ... in order to govern, would it not be better to appear to compete for a position of Judge to the Council of the Magistracy or have a President propose you for Minister of the Court? Honestly, it is very clear that the blows against the democratic institutions elected by the popular vote are no longer like they used to be ”, reflected the head of the Senate.
After the words of the vice,
Alberto Fernández
, who in 2013 harshly criticized the attacks of the then president Cristina Kirchner to the highest court, harshly criticized the supreme. “Give the sentence you want, we will do what we must (…) I will continue to take care of health, no matter how many pages are written in sentences. (…) They don't know how sad it is to see the decrepitude of the law converted into sentences, ”the President hammered at an event in Ezeiza with Governor
Axel Kicillof
and Minister of Education
Nicolás Trotta
.
Minutes earlier, the Buenos Aires governor lashed out at the opposition for having discontinued the Conectar Igualdad program during Macri's presidency and referred to the need to close schools in the context of the pandemic. “Today you can invent debates that do not exist. When the circulation of the virus grows, they had to move to virtuality and distance learning. Presence had to be abandoned with pain. Why did they stop giving computers to our boys? ”Asked the Buenos Aires president. His right hand,
Carlos Bianco,
had criticized without ellipsis that the City had not complied with the President's DNU that prohibited face-to-face classes at the AMBA.
While the President was having lunch in Ezeiza with mayors of the PJ and the governor, the Minister of Justice Martín Soria also dramatically interpreted the ruling of the Highest Court. “The failure of the CSJN is a political decision that takes institutional functioning to the limit. But the consequences are not political: they are measured in lives. To guarantee that each province or city can do what it wants to face the pandemic is to accept defeat against the virus. The autonomy of the CABA, like that of the provinces, is not absolute, ”said Soria, who accused the head of government of prosecuting the pandemic to obtain electoral revenue.
Fernández did not return to the Casa Rosada and went straight to Olivos after visiting a vaccination center. Presidential alter ego
Santiago Cafiero
also chose Twitter to state his position. “It is regrettable that the Court has consumed its time on issues of autonomy and jurisdiction in the midst of a pandemic that daily costs hundreds of lives. It is a discussion far from the reality of intensive care. We are going to continue prioritizing health, "he said.
In the most important offices of the Casa Rosada they insisted that the Court's ruling will not change the government's health approach. They stressed that in their ruling the judges did not mention the 3,200 infections that were registered this Tuesday in the City and warned that the Government will not back down and will seek to lower circulation where there is a health alarm. “The inhabitants of the metropolitan area were left more unprotected. This threatens all Argentine citizens because we know how the contagion of this virus is spread in our country. We are not going to allow any Argentine to be put at risk. The ruling will not modify in the least our priority: which is to take care of the health of the population ”, they pointed out very close to the President.
Presidential spokesman Juan Pablo Biondi chose irony and tweeted a photo of the digital signature of the magistrates' ruling.
"Do what I say but not what I do," he wrote.
A while later he distributed a document that reflects the official position of the Executive on the ruling.
There he says that "the national government always, and also now, works prioritizing the health and life of Argentines and Argentines" and also anticipates that "with that conviction it will continue working to bring vaccines and vaccinate the inhabitants of our country, to take care of public health and life, preserving the economy ".