While rumors grow on an imminent arrest of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner After the possible confirmation of his conviction in the road case, the jurist Eugenio Zaffaroni He warned that an advance in that sense “would not benefit the government” and warned about the “institutional severity” that would imply arrest the opposition leader. “Putting prey to the head of the opposition party gives a tremendous image,” he said.
The Supreme Court was not yet issued on the sentence to six years in prison and perpetual disqualification to exercise public office It weighs on the former president. However, the recent decision of the highest court to reject “in limine” the challenge against the judge Ricardo Lorenzetti It was interpreted by Zaffaroni as a clear sign: “That is a message that they will disable it,” he said. However, he relativized the immediacy of the measure: “Let them do it on Tuesday, I doubt it.”
The textuals are part of an interview conducted by Tuny Kollmann In the program X-raywhich is issued by Radio 10. There, the former Supreme Court said that the cause presents deep irregularities that delegitimize the judicial process: “It is not about privileges because she was former president, it is that it is an irregularity a condemnation in those conditions.” And directly pointed to the operation of the highest court: “It is the only Supreme Court in the world with a triumvirate, it is nonsense. They do not even care for the image of the court. ”
Zaffaroni also questioned the early filtration of information about the possible failure: “If the news is not false, it is that information escaped. Normally, when you escape, what we always did was not confirm it.” In that sense, he slipped the possibility that the Executive Power itself intervenes to stop an eventual detention operation: “It may be that someone calls on the phone from the Government House and says ‘Paren’. Someone with two neurons working can realize that this does not benefit it from the regime.”
Although it provides that if the conviction is executed, Cristina Kirchner would receive house prisonZaffaroni warned that even that measure would be humiliating: “If you want to humiliate her a little more, they will put an ankle. But I do not think this benefits the regime. Someone could have lucidity and say ‘let her compete, that we win.”
Asked about the possibility that the vice president resorts to international instances, it was sharp: “It will not serve anything that Cristina appeals to the Inter -American Court. It has to go through the commission, which takes years. ”
In a broader diagnosis about Argentine Justice, Zaffaroni said that the country is going through one of the worst situations of the world in terms of judicial institutionality: “We have not had a true judiciary. In the world, every judiciary fulfills three functions: resolve conflicts, constitutionality control and cassation. We have no national cassation, no one to unify interpretations. We have unique codes and 25 different interpretations. Each judge does what he wants. ”
Finally, he also criticized the direct election model of judges, as proposed by Mexican judicial reform, and advised him for the country: “Be careful to transfer that to Argentina. You will have a mirror of what the Chamber of Deputies is, but with sentences instead of votes. L LYou have to be elected by contest, the most capable must be a judge”
Zaffaroni’s warning puts the focus on the structural weakness of the Argentine Judiciary and the political risks of advancing with a decision that could mark a before and after in the democracy of the country.
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