The former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner He announced on Monday the presentation of a complaint appeal before the Supreme Court of Justice so that the highest court reviews his conviction in the case known as “Road”, in which he was sentenced to six years in prison by fraudulent administration. In addition, he challenged the judge Manuel José García Mansilla, designated by the president Javier Milei By decree, considering that its appointment violates the National Constitution and that its links with the Executive affect its impartiality.
Through her social networks, the vice president posted the dissemination of the two central documents of this new judicial stage: the complaint for denial of the extraordinary appeal and the challenge against García Mansilla, both of ten pages.
The arguments against the condemnation
Cristina Kirchner hardly questioned the Federal Cassation Court, which he described as “macrista”, for having rejected the extraordinary appeal without responding to the central objections of his defense. According to the presentation, the judges omitted to pronounce on the violations of constitutional rights and guarantees that their defense had raised. Nor did they respond to what the ex -president calls a “concrete and reasoned refutation” of the foundations used to condemn it, which qualifies as arbitrary and built without legal support.
In his letter, CFK insists that the sentence has vices of nullity and manifest arbitrariness, which would justify the intervention of the Court. The presentation was made by his lawyers, headed by Dr. Carlos Beraldi, who will give a press conference this Monday at 11 at the headquarters of the Justicialist Party.
The challenge against García Mansilla
In addition to the appeal, the former president challenged the recently appointed judge of the Supreme Court, Manuel José García Mansilla, appointed by Milei in commission through a decree that was not yet endorsed by the Senate. Cristina argues that this designation violates the constitutional procedure and, therefore, challenges its participation in any cause in which it is involved.
The challenge is based on two main axes: on the one hand, García Mansilla publicly declared in August 2023 that he would never accept to be designated by decree, something that finally did. On the other, Cristina argues that the judge responds politically to Milei, who just a few days ago stated in an interview that “Cristina will go prey”, in what the ex -president interprets as a “direct interference in the Judiciary.”
According to Cristina, this president’s statement, repeated with “absolute and aggressive certainty,” represents a pressure on the judges and, in particular, on García Mansilla, whose designation “depends exclusively on Milei.”
A political-institutional conflict
The tension is not only judicial: Cristina recalled that she is president of the Justicialist party, Force that pronounced publicly against the designation of García Mansilla for considering that his specifications is unconstitutional. In addition, the block has requested a special session in the Senate for April 3 with the aim of rejecting the judge’s nomination.
“The forcefulness of the facts and the sayings exempts us from greater comments,” Cristina concludes in its publication, making it clear that it considers that there is a judicial and political operation against it, with the endorsement of the ruling party.
With this legal and political offensive, the former president replaces the road cause in the center of the judicial scene and adds pressure on the Supreme Court, to which he demands a substantive review of the case. At the same time, he doubts the legitimacy of the judge proposed by Milei, in a context of growing confrontation between the Executive and sectors of Peronism.
By rn
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