Mauricio Macri knew each and every movement of Thursday’s plenary session of the Judicial Council. He had spoken in detail with Pablo Tonelli and Daniel Angelici: knew that both the deputy and counselor of Pro and Carlos Matterson, who responds non-stop to the operator and former president of Boca Juniors, would vote in favor of the shortlist proposed by Roberto Boico, a prestigious lawyer very identified with Cristina Kirchner, for the Buenos Aires Federal Chamber. Macri knew, and endorsed the maneuver that lays bare a disturbing internal pull in the bloc made up of the opposition in alliance with the judges.
“We found it more profitable to agree, given that the ruling party had the votes, they had to exercise a more testimonial opposition, “Tonelli explained to THE NATION.
Just on the same Thursday that the council approved the list with the name of Boico, it gave the green light to the return of Eduardo Farah – linked to the auditor Javier Fernández – to the Federal Chamber, and advanced in a score of competitions negotiated between the ruling party and a opposition sector, the Civic Coalition presented in the lower house the Political trial of Cristina Kirchner for “alteration of the institutional order.”
“There is a huge inconsistency between what a Pro sector says and what Pro does in the Council of the Magistracy. And that sector says nothing”, claimed Juan Manuel Lopez, head of the CC block in Deputies and alternate councilor.
Consulted by this newspaper, Elisa Carrió took another step: “It is a shame”, She said clearly displeased with the actions of the coalition in dealing with the contests.
The prior to that conclave was tumultuous for the block identified with Together for Change. Just over a week ago Juan Manuel Culotta and Ricardo Recondo, representing the judges, notified the councilors of Juntos por el Cambio that they responded for their lists, and that they had entered into a negotiation with the ruling party, led by Gerónimo Ustarroz.
Culotta and Tonelli, who have a close bond, had a heated discussion: “Better to negotiate six, en bloc,” claimed the deputy. From a Pro sector, with the wink of Macri, they understood then that the Frente de Todos had the necessary votes to advance with Boico and Farah, and they joined in the negotiations to obtain revenue in the appointments in other jurisdictions. Better that and stay buckled with the judges, than to lose with a block break, they reasoned. The ruling party licks.
According to the sources consulted, Angelici, who returned to hyperactivity, met with the former president – they do it regularly – to talk specifically about the subject: the versions show that the ex-boss Xeneize talked with the founder of Pro about the convenience of having a more prominent role in the Council of the Magistracy in exchange for the management of the legal cases that compromise the ex-president.
In Macri’s environment they only answered that “he spoke several times with Tonelli.” It is that the figure of Angelici arouses internal misgivings. Carrió waits, expectantly. From the Civic Coalition they added that in the next virtual meeting of Together for Change they will ask for “explanations”.
Thursday’s plenary session, which exposed the opposition’s need to sharpen a more homogeneous strategy, included another novelty to top it off: the landing of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta in an area that until now had preferred to manage through intermediaries. The debut of Diego Marías, His bishop representing the lawyers, means the first foot of the head of Government in the body, in his career already whitewashed by the presidency in 2023.
“The change of the councilors supposes a natural rearrangement in the operation, but we are all with a conviction to maintain harmony. In the negotiation there will be judges who like more, and judges who sometimes like less,” Marías stressed to this newspaper.
The counselor, who abstained in all his voting – “at least we marked the field,” they stressed close to him-, responds to Rodríguez Larreta or Diego Santilli, who in recent months began to have a much more relevant role in the link with the Justice in the scheme of the Buenos Aires chief.
Near Santilli they explained that it seeks to “put a political head to the judicial strategy.” However, in the City administration they do not deny any relationship: Angelici also has direct access to the main offices on Uspallata Street.
The new conformation of the Council of the Magistracy leaves in this sense the different internal views in evidence. In Farah’s return to the Federal Chamber of Comodoro Py, the opposition presented, by case, three different voices: the endorsement of the judges, the vote against Tonelli and Senator Silvia Giacoppo, who speaks for Governor Gerardo Morales – in good tune with the Casa Rosada-, and the abstentions of Marías and Matterson.
For a qualified voice of the hard sector of Pro, which justifies the nod to Boico – Cristina Kirchner’s lawyer in the cause for the pact with Iran and public defender of Beloved Boudou- In pursuit of other agreements, the dispersion in the Farah case, which was transferred during the Macri administration, is inadmissible: “Just to a judge who in recent years we told him about anything but pretty.”
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