From moderation to polarization. Alberto Fernandez drawer the dialogist manual at the opening of the ordinary sessions of Congress and opened a stage of confrontation with the Justice, the opposition and the media, which seems to be focused on strengthening its link with the most radical sectors of Kirchnerism.
The President accompanied his speech with the advance that he will send two projects that aim to “circumscribe” the power of the Supreme Court of Justice, among other initiatives on which it works to reform the Judiciary, and announced that it will promote a “Criminal complaint” against the government of Mauricio Macri for managing the debt with the International Monetary Fund.
It was a speech in which avoided self-criticism around the VIP vaccination scandal that worked in the Ministry of Health, with campaign piping, significantly different from the one he had pronounced in the 2020 edition, when he summoned all sectors and political forces to work together, but which had the approval in several passages of Cristina Kirchner and earned him some crosses with deputies from Together for Change .
Alberto F. left for the final stretch of the longest speech – one hour and 47 minutes – that he offered as head of state, his approach to the functioning of the Judiciary.
“The Judicial Power is in crisis, it seems to live on the margins of the republican system,” the president started, while recalling, for example, that judges do not pay Profits. Although, as I had anticipated Clarion, in the corridors of Casa Rosada they discounted that Justice was going to be one of the main axes of the speech, with the insistence on the deputies to approve the reform of the federal jurisdiction, the debate regarding how far Fernández would point was not settled.
The head of state quickly made his challenge clear to the members of the High Court. “In the case of the members of the Supreme Court, accessing the affidavit of their assets is virtually impossible,” he questioned, before the five ministers who followed the ceremony via Zoom.
According to the President, “the mainstream media hide” these “striking facts” from Justice. Among them, the head of state alluded to the situation of the federal prosecutor Carlos Stornelli, investigated in the espionage case.
Obfuscated by some decisions of the High Court, Alberto F. said that he seeks “the creation of a Federal Court of Guarantees that will have jurisdiction exclusively in matters of arbitrariness and which can be reached by means of an extraordinary appeal.”
In January, the President had spoken of his intention to copy a court that exists in Spain that is “not” below the Court but “on par”. Although as he may have learned Clarion the project is not “not even written”, a priori it does not seem to go in that sense.
The text that he promised to send to reform “and depoliticize” the Council of the Magistracy is not written either.
The battery of initiatives to change the functioning of the Judiciary, a more austere reissue of the “democratization of justice” sponsored by Cristina in 2013, It was completed with the request that Deputies approve the reform of the Public Prosecutor’s Office (there were no allusions to the statement by Daniel Rafecas), and the warning that Congress must comply a more active role in the control of judges.
The harsh words of Alberto F. at times generated applause from his Cabinet and the bulk of legislators from the Frente de Todos. Also, most importantly, nods of approval from Cristina.
A similar effect produced his review of the inheritance of the Macri government and the announcement that he will request that the debt of 44 billion dollars with the International Monetary Fund that took the previous management be investigated.
“I have instructed the pertinent authorities to formally initiate a criminal complaint aimed at determining who have been the authors and participants in the greatest fraudulent administration and the greatest embezzlement of funds that our memory registers,” he said.
In a less hostile scenario (with only 90 legislators) than they anticipated in the ruling party, the vaccinagate scandal had a brief appearance. “The rules must be followed. If mistakes are made, the will of this President is to recognize and correct them. Even when personally they caused me a lot of pain, I made the appropriate decisions,” he defended.
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source https://pledgetimes.com/the-president-before-congress-goodbye-to-the-dialogue-manual-and-cristinas-gestures-of-approval/
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