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Among Chicanas to the Court, the Government confirms that this Monday it presents to the UN the report that defends the attack on Justice and victimizes Cristina Kirchner

2023-01-22T17:25:37.022Z


Horacio Pietragalla, Secretary of Human Rights, used his social networks to attack the highest court. He is the official who will present the document in Geneva.


The Secretary of Human Rights, the ultra-Kirchnerist Horacio Pietragalla, is already in Geneva, from where, contrary to the sobriety required by his position,

he dedicated himself to chicaning the Supreme Court of Justice through social networks.


He spent the weekend tweeting and retweeting images of Los 8 escalones, an entertainment program on Channel 13, in which participants answer questions and win money.

In this case, he posted a scene where the participants answer

how many members the highest court has. 

The Secretary of State makes use of a photo and irony about the mistakes of the participants and puts them:

"No one can believe it... only 5 and that 5...", 

although strictly speaking currently there are five places in the maximum court there is one vacant.

In addition, he retweeted speeches by Vice President Cristina Kirchner criticizing what he calls "the media-judicial mafia."

Pietragalla thus echoes, not only the political trial that Alberto Fernandez's government is trying to pass through Congress, but also his move to expand the number of members of the Court. 

While Pietragalla redoubles his onslaught through social networks, government officials confirmed to

Clarín

that this Monday from 2:30 p.m. in Switzerland (four hours less in Argentina), the official is going to present to the United Nations Human Rights Council the country report that is presented every five years and that this time Kirchnerism turned into a document in which it defends its attack against Justice in general and the Court in particular, whose members it denounced to impeach them with the aim of removing them.

The report, which was strongly repudiated on Saturday by the entire opposition arch, attacks the media, which it calls the "corporations" of businessmen, and victimizes Cristina Kirchner, who, according to the document, would be a victim of the mechanism of alleged judicial political persecution known as

lawfare

By the way, he himself made statements to Página 12 before flying: 

"We are going to show that when we say that democracy is in danger, it is because it is." 

He supported it in an article in that official newspaper entitled

"Lawfare and hate speech: the challenges facing democracy in Argentina."

According to Página 12, Pietragalla explained to them that his presentation will focus on "remarking the advances that have been made in terms of human rights since the assumption of the Frente de Todos, and that there will be a chapter for Justice that continues to be a debt.

"We cannot ignore the lawfare, the attack on Cristina and the institutions, nor the proscription against her. It is not usual, but what is happening in Argentina is not usual either, "he

 said.

The characteristics of this presentation are an unprecedented and controversial fact, because Kirchnerism denounces all democratic institutions seeking to be a victim in the midst of their judicial onslaught.

serious presentation

As C

larín

anticipated on Saturday, the report criticizes the independent media, the political opposition and "concentrated sectors of economic and media power" which, it goes so far as to say, have the purpose of "outlawing" central figures on the stage political".

It is already published on the pages of the Human Rights Council, which is based in Geneva.

It will be in the framework of the "

Universal Periodic Review" (UPR)

on Argentina.

This activity occurs approximately every five years, since 2006 and by decision of the UN General Assembly.

The UPR is an examination of the human rights situation of all United Nations Member States that offers each country the opportunity to present progress in the area of ​​human rights, while receiving the "recommendations" of the other members. from the international community on how to improve the human rights situation in the country under review.

There is no other similar mechanism at the level of the United Nations.

The usual thing is that a "National Report" is presented on their situation or progress in human rights, presenting the best face on the matter before the international community, on Health, Education, Discrimination and Children's Rights.

But the Government

used it to victimize itself of the "lawfare or legal war" against Cristina Kirchner.

In that train he maintains that this practice "is promoted by sectors of the Judiciary, the political opposition and concentrated sectors of economic and media power with the purpose of 'outlawing' central figures of the political scene."

He says that lawfare is a practice that violates human rights, a policy of harassment, proscription and political persecution in the courts, a fraudulent criminal process against political figures representing popular sectors, for which he finally demands the "accompaniment of the Council of Human Rights”.

Giving an example, he says: "Another of the challenges facing our country is the phenomenon of 'lawfare or legal warfare'". by sectors of the Judiciary, the political opposition and concentrated sectors of economic and media power – constitutes a practice that violates human rights and operates as a condition of the electoral processes, of the political agenda and of public opinion".

It goes on to say that in these judicial cases, such as those faced by the former President of the Nation, under the excuse of

the investigation and punishment of acts of corruption

, "fundamental guarantees of the Rule of Law are violated", that basic guarantees of due process are ignored. process such as the presumption of innocence, the right to defense and the principle of objectivity that should guide the actions of the Public Prosecutor's Office.

And it affirms that these criminal cases are promoted only "against political figures who represent popular sectors, while powerful sectors are maintained in impunity, which have allowed or endorsed the criminal indebtedness that has generated poverty and indigence in the population."

He goes on and complains that "although the National Government changed in December 2019, and thus ended the practice of subjugation of judicial independence by the National Executive Power, political persecution in the courts is fully in force, as members of the The Judiciary and the Public Prosecutor's Office continue to carry out fraudulent criminal proceedings against the main political figures of the current ruling party, formerly in opposition to the government of the previous administration."

The report says that "the persecution strategies, whose ultimate goal is the banning of central figures on the political scene, are carried out in practice by judges and prosecutors who regularly visited the former president, both at his official residence and in his private residences, which demonstrates the spurious coexistence between both sectors and the continuity of a policy of harassment that affects the democratic principles of our country, especially those that make the independence and impartiality with which the Nation's Judicial Power and the Ministries must act. Public".

Then

he demands the accompaniment of the Human Rights Council

"to strengthen judicial independence, the legitimacy of the justice service and, ultimately, the rule of law in our country."

The report has school characteristics at times

.

For example, when he tries to explain in greater detail some references within the document, he opens footnotes such as the following: “(169) Lawfare is a practice that violates human rights, first of all, insofar as it violates the fundamental rights of the direct victims who are the object of their actions (political leaders, former public officials and leaders of social and trade union organizations).

Secondly, because it enables the design and implementation of public policies with a clear regressive bias in terms of human rights (especially the set of economic, social and cultural rights), which have a profound impact on society as a whole".

This unusual presentation breaks with a golden rule in the international arena

in the sense that in this exam, government officials fully defend their country's position against eventual criticism from the international community.

In this case, Kirchnerism uses the forum to

discredit Argentina,

accusing sectors of the political opposition, the judiciary, the economic sectors and the press with harsh rhetoric, of conspiring against democratic principles in the country.

Source: clarin

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