Karina Milei and Ricardo Lorenzetti are silently negotiating
an agreement so that the vacancy left vacant three years ago by Elena Highton on the Supreme Court will be filled by a woman.
The initiative arises after the Government presented the candidacies of Ariel Lijo and Manuel García-Mansilla to occupy the position of Highton and the one that Juan Carlos Maqueda will vacate at the end of the year, when he turns 75 years old.
The name of the candidate suggested in that case is
Susana Medina
, a judge from Entre Ríos with extensive experience and good ties with the President's sister, who
was also president of the International Association of Women Judges
, being voted for by 5,200 judges from all over the country. world.
With Karina Milei, and the president of the Chamber of Deputies Martín Menem, she was photographed a few months ago.
The possibility of Medina gains strength
after Lorenzetti internally made a proposal
regarding the next appointments of those who would be his colleagues on the fourth floor of the Talcahuano courts.
The two seats to be filled, following gender logic, correspond to women.
And that was what the Santa Fe judge, historically with good ties with Lijo, would have said due to his work as a federal judge in Comodoro Py.
García-Mansilla
, in his role as his lawyer, was critical of Lorenzetti when he voted in partial dissent against the reconfiguration of the Judicial Council in 2021.
Lorenzetti's proposal has support in different sectors of Justice due to a question of institutionality.
Article 3 of Decree 222/2003 establishes that the Executive Branch must take into account that "the inclusion of new members allows gender diversities to be reflected."
Therefore, the appointment of at least one woman to the position of supreme judge is practically an obligation.
Federal judge Susana Medina.
Sources close to Lorenzetti, however, maintained that those confirmed for the Court by the Government are García-Mansilla and Lijo.
And they recalled that a few days ago in Entre Ríos, Medina herself denied that she had been offered the position, according to the newspaper Uno of that province.
At the legislative level, in addition,
the gender quota issue is central
, since in the Senate there are 33 women out of a total of 72 members and the approval of any document requires two-thirds of endorsements.
That is to say that with 25 votes against there, the candidacies of Lijo or García-Mansilla would automatically fall.
There are those who define Medina as a libertarian federal judge, due to her affinity with Karina Milei, whom she would see again in the coming weeks.
The woman from Entre Ríos is a graduate of the National University of the Litoral and presides over Labor Chamber No. 3 of the Superior Court of Justice of Entre Ríos
.
Her arrival would also give the Court a more federal look, joining two judges from Santa Fe like Lorenzetti or the current president, Horacio Rosatti.
The third judge of the Court, in addition to Maqueda from Córdoba, is Carlos Rosenkrantz, a native of Buenos Aires.
In parallel, as
Clarín
published , another name of a woman who could be a candidate for a position in Justice was known, such as the judge of the Federal Court of Appeals of Salta, Mariana Catalano, although in principle she sounds like she could reach the Attorney General's Office. of the Nation, a position that is also vacant and has been held temporarily since 2017.
The Government's decision to promote Lijo and García-Mansilla
Federal judge Ariel Lijo.
Photo: Maxi Failla.
Last week,
the President's Office announced the name of its two candidates for the Court
: as this newspaper had anticipated, one of them is the current Buenos Aires federal judge Ariel Lijo, one of the references in the Comodoro Py investigative jurisdiction. .
The other is the jurist Manuel García-Mansilla.
At that time, presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni had left the door open for the announcement of the candidates to include more than one name, which effectively happened: in addition to the vacancy that Highton left with his resignation in 2021, the most senior minister of the Court, Juan Carlos Maqueda, meets next December the age limit of 75 years established by the Constitution for magistrates.
Judges can only remain on their desks after that age if the government again proposes its specifications to the Senate to extend their work.
It won't happen in this case.
In the official communication, the Executive Branch expressed "its gratitude for the distinguished work of Dr. Maqueda and highlights his extensive career in the three branches of the National State and in the Province of Córdoba. In particular, he is thanked and recognized for his valuable participation as Judge of the Supreme Court of Justice for twenty years.
A federal judge since 2004,
Lijo maintains a historically close relationship with one of the ministers, Ricardo Lorenzetti, while García-Mansilla was defined in the official statement as "a prestigious academic with a solid background in constitutional law
and serves as Dean of the Faculty of Law of the Austral University".
Both candidacies were promoted internally by the Minister of Justice Mariano Cúneo Libarona.
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