05/18/2021 1:27 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 05/18/2021 1:43 PM
Vice President Cristina Kirchner criticized this Tuesday the request for political asylum in Uruguay made by Fabián "Pepín" Rodríguez Simón, former advisor to Mauricio Macri, and pointed against Justice and against macrismo.
Through a letter on her personal blog, entitled
"Of impunity and fugitives: or when the masks fall"
, the former president said that she felt "stupor and indignation" when she saw the news of the asylum request and compared the judicial situation of Rodríguez Simón with his calls for an investigation by stating again that there was "judicial persecution" during the Macri government.
"Last night in front of the television, when I saw the image of Fabián Rodríguez Simón, alias“ Pepín ”, requesting political asylum in Uruguay only because he was called to give an investigatory statement, I felt not only astonishment and indignation, but the intimate conviction that finally, more Sooner or later,
the masks fall and the true face of macrismo appears
: lies, cynicism and the true impunity in Argentina, theirs, "he launched.
Fabián Rodríguez Simón, one of Macri's closest collaborators, requested "asylum as a political refugee in Uruguay" for the alleged judicial persecution that, according to the PRO lawyer wrote in a public letter, the businessmen Cristobal López, Fabián, exercise against him. de Sousa and judges and leaders related to the Government.
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I am not going to return to Argentina until the persecution against me ceases
. I have well-founded fears that if I did, I would be unduly deprived of my freedom, with danger to my personal safety, in the framework of legal cases rigged as a pretext to imprison myself. ", assured the deputy of the Parlasur.
In this regard, Cristina Kirchner took advantage of the occasion to attack the Justice again and treated Rodríguez as "a serial squeezer of judges and businessmen".
"He had only been summoned to give an investigatory statement by a judge and a prosecutor, of whom anything can be said except that they are Kirchnerists. 'He asks for political asylum in Uruguay for persecution.' And they say that we are the ones who 'seek impunity.' ", he ironized.
Not only did he compare the situation with his presentations in court for corruption cases, but he also related other referents of Kirchnerism and even his children, Máximo and Florencia.
"The institution of preventive detention, conceptually planned to prevent the escape of the accused, was used to imprison opponents," he said.
He considered that none "of the leaders who were unjustly persecuted, prosecuted or imprisoned made the slightest gesture of withdrawing from the action, in many cases even illegal, of that Judicial Power."
Along these lines, he pointed out to "the media and the macrista opposition of repeating the same song over and over again: that Kirchnerism" seeks impunity. "
The full letter
I was summoned to give an investigatory statement to Comodoro Py, I don't even know how many times. I do remember with precision that in 2019, precisely on Nestor's birthday, February 25, I was summoned to give eight investigative statements on the same day. Once again, the violation of the most elementary norms and principles of the Rule of Law was in charge of Bonadío.
Florencia, my daughter, who was never a civil servant and who was only 12 years old when her father took office as President, was also summoned to give an investigatory statement and even, during 2018, was forced to present a release from prison due to the growing rumors of a possible arrest warrant by the hitman judge, Bonadío.
Máximo, my other son, was raided in his Rio Gallegos office on the day of his son's birthday and summoned to give an investigatory statement three times.
Starting in 2016, during the Macrista government, an unprecedented judicial persecution was unleashed in the Argentine Republic in times of democracy, with hunts in some cases. Hundreds of former officials of our governments were summoned to give an investigatory statement, dozens were prosecuted and others were "preventively" imprisoned. In this way, the institution of preventive detention, conceptually planned to prevent the escape of the accused, was used to imprison opponents.
Never - and when I say never, it is never - none of the leaders unjustly persecuted, prosecuted or imprisoned made the slightest gesture of avoiding the action, in many cases even illegal, of that Judicial Power.
However, it is a very common place in the hegemonic media and the macrista opposition, to repeat over and over the same tune: that Kirchnerism "seeks impunity."
When last night, the television screen showed me the image of the face of Fabián Rodríguez Simón, alias “Pepín”, a member of the now famous and media-based Macrista Judicial Table - the same one that decided prosecutions and imprisonments - along with a request for "Political asylum" in Uruguay because he felt "persecuted", many images came to mind.
That of Héctor Timerman returning from the United States sick with terminal cancer and interrupting his treatment, due to the court summons from Bonadío. The images of the media parades of ex-civil servants handcuffed, in vests, hooded and in humiliating conditions, subjected to walks in front of the television cameras of the hegemonic media that, with an "inexplicable" premonition, always knew what time and where they were going. things happen.
Fabián Rodríguez Simón, alias “Pepín”, deputy of the Parlasur de Cambiemos, former Director of YPF during the macrismo, Mauricio Macri's lawyer, serial presser of judges and businessmen, had only been summoned to give an investigatory statement by a judge and a prosecutor, Of those who can say anything less that they are Kirchnerists, "he asks for political asylum in Uruguay for persecution." And they say that we are the ones who "seek impunity"!
Together for the Changes, from the government, they put together a legal case against the then Attorney Alejandra Gils Carbó. They threatened to set up cases against her daughters while Clarín published their telephone numbers so that they would be harassed and attacked. In this way, they forced her to resign despite her absolute institutional legitimacy: she was voted by 63 Senators and Senators of the Nation, far exceeding the two-thirds required (48 votes) by current law. And to think that it is they, those of Together for Change, who speak of respecting the institutions of the Republic and say that we are the ones who "seek impunity"!
Together for Change. The same ones who try to prolong an institutional situation that never took place in Argentine democracy. Eduardo Casal, an interim Attorney without the agreement of the Senate provided for by current law. Eduardo Casal, appointed prosecutor without competition in 1992, during the Menem. Eduardo Casal, the same one who protects Prosecutor Stornelli -macrista prosecutor if there are any-, in the also unprecedented situation of having confirmed prosecution in the second instance for crimes committed in the exercise of his function and continue to exercise the position of prosecutor. And to think that it is they, those of Together for Change, who say that we want to put a prosecutor without respecting the institutions and that we are the ones who "seek impunity"!
Sincerely, last night in front of the television, when I saw the image of Fabián Rodríguez Simón, alias “Pepín”, requesting political asylum in Uruguay only because he was called to give an investigatory statement, I not only felt astonishment and indignation, but the intimate conviction that finally, Sooner or later, the masks fall and the true face of macrismo appears: lies, cynicism and the true impunity in Argentina, theirs.
JPE