Former Argentine president supports initiative to reform the judiciary

Fernando Camacho Servin

The newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, August 4, 2024, p. 9

Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner welcomed the ambitious judicial reform promoted by Morena and its allies in Congress, which he considered as frankly revolutionaryin particular due to the proposal to elect judges by popular vote.

Participating this Saturday in the closing of a course organized by the National Institute of Political Training (INFP) of the cherry party, Fernández de Kirchner spoke about the need to achieve utopia of justice In Latin America, in a scenario where –she said– laws have often been used as a tool of political harassment against leaders like herself.

In that context, he explained, it is crucial reform the justice system, which is completely co-opted by economic power factors and completely pressured by the hegemonic media. […] That is why I salute and celebrate this judicial reform that Morena is undertaking..

At the Cultural Center of Contemporary Mexico, the former Argentine president emphasized that This ambitious reform of Morena It seeks the election by popular vote of all judges, ministers and magistrates of the Judicial Branch, including those of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, which makes it a project frankly revolutionary.

Supports Mexico’s position on elections in Venezuela

During the closing of the course Political and Electoral Reality of Latin America, the former Argentine president supported completely the position of the governments of Mexico, Brazil and Colombia on the post-electoral conflict in Venezuela, who called, in a joint statement on August 1, for the differences in the latter country to be resolved by the institutional route.

He emphasized that beyond likes and dislikesit should not be forgotten that the tensions in Venezuela are related to the fact that it has the largest oil reserves in the world. He also asked to discard the idea that is spread through social networks and hegemonic media that in that nation One is the Devil and the others are angels.

Fernández de Kirchner called on the authorities of the National Electoral Council, Not only for the Venezuelan people, for the opposition, but for democracy and for the legacy of Hugo Chavez himself, publish the minutes of the elections to know clearly who was the winner of the voting on July 28.

The Morena senator Citlalli Hernández and the cartoonist and writer Rafael Barajas participated in the meeting. The Snoopercollaborator of this publishing house and president of the INFP.