The timing is not the best to avoid suspicion, but the state of almost permanent hibernation in which Congress is plunged has not left Kirchnerism much room for choice: while the Senate meets again after almost five months, the government sent a request there to extend the working life of a key magistrate in the Argentine federal justice system.
It is Ana María Figueroa, president of the Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation and member of the Chamber of that court who these days -the deadlines have already expired- must vote if Cristina Kirchner and her children go to trial or not for money laundering in the unified cases Hotesur and Los Sauces.
In August Figueroa turns 75, the age limit established in the Constitution for judges to retire.
The Figueroa case is especially delicate and fuels the judge's copious links with Kirchnerism, accredited at least by the overwhelming sense of her votes in favor of former K officials accused of corruption.
It is that in addition to the temporary coincidence with the expectation of his intervention in the Hotesur case, Figueroa has just achieved what his colleague Esteban Riggi could not achieve less than sixty days ago: that the government intercede for him before the Senate to ask that he extends your working life beyond the constitutional limit.
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