As so often in Argentine history, the Plaza de Mayo is the dramatic stage of the national political present. While the Casa Rosada looks covered by the stage that will support the presence and speech of Cristina Kirchner to her faithful, a few meters beyond the Metropolitan Cathedral will receive the national authorities and the referents of all the cults to thank for the Homeland in the traditional and historical Tedeum. But there you can also feel the baseness of the institutional present: the ministers of the Supreme Court of Justice were not invited to the celebration.
On Wednesday until late hours, the lights on the fourth floor of the Palace of Courts were kept on waiting for some message that would allow organizing the morning of this May 25. But the pigeon never came.
A similar uncertainty had been experienced almost three months ago, when Alberto Fernández inaugurated the ordinary sessions of Congress in the Legislative Assembly on March 1, to which the Court ended up being invited at the last minute. That day, the highest court decided that he would be represented by its authorities, President Horacio Rosatti and Carlos Rosenkrantz.
With a stern gesture and their eyes straight ahead, both were beaten in the presidential speech and the shouting of the guests. "Unfortunately, the judiciary has long lacked public trust, does not function effectively and does not show the required independence from the powers that be and politics. Examples abound," Alberto Fernández shot in the final stretch of his remarks.
"While many provinces need to carry out works that allow them to ensure essential services such as drinking water for their inhabitants, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation assured the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires that co-participation resources that do not correspond to it, contrary to the current co-participation law. It takes money from those who need it most and allocates those same resources to the most opulent city in the country," he said in another paragraph, to complain about the sentence that in December ordered to return to Buenos Aires part of the money that the Nation had stopped sending him in 2020 as federal co-participation.
Those words were later transformed into deeds, when the meager pro-government majority in the Impeachment Commission of the Chamber of Deputies initiated a process against the four ministers of the Court with several accusations, including that sentence that, by the way, has not yet been fulfilled.
The open war against the Judiciary had in this government Alberto Fernández as a marine willing to land on enemy beaches, but in the command and with his binoculars over his eyes always remained the true head of that onslaught, Cristina Kirchner.
This Thursday, in the Plaza de Mayo, there will surely be some hurtful paragraph for judges and prosecutors. However, a day before the vice president received good news: very opportunely, the prosecutor Guillermo Marijuan requested for her a dismissal in the famous case for laundering in the Money Route K. Sitting in the VIP sector, after the postponement of his trip to China to be able to be in the act, a possible manager of that good news for Cristina will smile: the Minister of Economy and little disguised pretender to the presidential candidacy, Sergio Massa.
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