Alberto Fernández has decided to return to the country before the end of the month and also collect the honorary pension
that corresponds to him as former president of the Nation.
This is a
benefit close to 7 million pesos per month
and for this a procedure has been initiated in Anses that would be in the liquidation process.
Although the national organization refused to confirm the information, a former official who knew how to work side by side with the former president stated that
"I understand that he has already started" the process and that "in March Alberto will be back here
."
Shortly after the end of his term, Fernández traveled to Spain with the intention of exploring the possibility of settling for a time in the Iberian country and teaching at different universities.
The problem is that to collect the lifetime pension authorized by Law 24,018 for former presidents and former vice presidents, the current holder of the PJ
would have to return to Argentina
: "it is a condition that the beneficiaries be domiciled in the country," says article 5 of the cited regulations.
"He does not live in Argentina,
it does not belong to him
," warns, in this sense, deputy
Graciela Ocaña
, who estimates
this benefit at "around 7 million pesos."
"Alberto is not going to settle in Spain"
Those around the former president, on the other hand, point out that "he is entitled to the pension and will process it" and that he plans to return to Argentina during the course of this month.
"
He is not going to settle in Spain,"
insists a close collaborator of Alberto to
Clarín
.
Yes, it is likely that during the year he will maintain an agenda in both countries because his wife, Fabiola Yánez, will remain in the peninsula for "personal reasons."
Due to a health issue, the former first lady did not participate in the audience that the Pope gave to A. Fernández on January 16, and that is why he arrived at the Vatican only accompanied by his little son Francisco.
In this context, the so-called
Base Law proposes the elimination of the pensions covered by Law 24,018
.
Although it was approved at a general level in Deputies, this Tuesday it will be debated article by article in the chamber but it is unlikely that the one that suppresses this type of privileged retirement will fall by the wayside.
However, even if this change was approved, it would not apply to Alberto Fernández, in the event that the former president's process in the organization led by Osvaldo Giordano from Córdoba is successful.
Objections to the "honorability" of the former president
However, there are opposition leaders who are determined that Fernández will not be able to collect an ex-gratia pension.
On November 23,
deputy Marcela Campagnoli (JxC)
, asked the Administrative Investigations Attorney's Office to evaluate whether she would be entitled to collect this income, alleging
a series of facts that would compromise her "honorability",
one of the requirements of the benefit. .
According to the deputy, Fernández would have failed to fulfill his duties as a public official because during his term he did not leave his position as a university professor while mentioning the scandals that involved him such as the “
Olivos party” during the quarantine and the so-called “VIP Vaccination”.
In her opinion, these facts would expose a clear “violation of the
Public Ethics law on duties and guidelines for ethical behavior
.”
The deputy also accused the former president of "non-observance of the National Constitution regarding the appointment of magistrates of the Judicial Branch" and for the "delegation of the president's powers to a minister", alluding to the unusual prominence that the former minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, who opted for his presidential candidacy.
He also mentioned as reprehensible facts that Yáñez had allegedly
used the Banco de la Nación Argentina Foundation for “promotion of his personal company,” in reference to the signature “Live and Dream.”
"What
we want is to declare his non-honorability.
But the Attorney General's Office argued that it was not up to him to process this file and that Anses should do it," Campagnoli told this newspaper.
Close to the president, meanwhile, they justify the possible collection of the benefit and that
he needs this income to be able to "pay the bills
. "
They highlight, in this sense, that he retired from public service without judicial cases of corruption against him.
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