Judge Roberto Gallardo suspended the hearing that it had called for in order to hear arguments in the case for the fencing and custody of the City Police around the department of Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Recoletaafter a request for recusal presented by the head of the Buenos Aires Government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, and another for postponement made by the Minister of Security of the Nation, Aníbal Fernández.
After making that decision, the magistrate stated in statements to the press that Rodríguez Larreta “challenges the constitutional order” by refusing to comply with the order to withdraw the local police from the surroundings of the Vice President’s home.
Gallardo arrived at the headquarters after 8:30 a.m. where he planned to listen to the arguments of the parties from 9 a.m. before resolving the substantive issue of the appeals filed.but suspended the process before the challenge presented by the Government of CABA, informed Télam judicial sources.
In addition, one of those mentioned, the Minister of Security of the Nation, Aníbal Fernández, requested a postponement for agenda reasons.
The national official specified that on Tuesday a letter was presented to request the postponement for agenda reasons and confirmed that what the Government did “is within the law and has already been resolved”, when entering the Cabinet meeting that took place in the Government House.
For his part, Gallardo made statements to several media outlets and said that “it is a custom of the Government of CABA to recuse me.”
“The head of government should start reading the Constitution. I am neither K (kirchnerist) nor M (macrista),” he pointed out.
What happened “is one more example of how the City Government operates, systematically challenging each time there is a judicial conflict that puts it in crisis. It is what we are used to,” the magistrate told channel C5N, adding that “The Government has resorted to the figure of recusal to remove the files from this Court.”
Gallardo said that the head of government “instead of saying that a judge is K, he would have to say that he is C”, alluding to the Buenos Aires Constitution, and stated that “he has a central problem, which is with the Constitution, not with me or with Kirchnerism. There is a system established in the Constitution of the City that the head of government must comply with.”
“It is very worrying and serious that the Head of Government calls for not complying with a judicial decision”, in relation to his order to withdraw the City Police from the vicinity of the Vice President’s department, said the magistrate.
“It is one more example of how the City Government operates, systematically challenging each time there is a judicial conflict that puts it in crisis. It is what we are used to”Robert Gallardo
Before the proposal of recusal, the case will be in charge of another judge of the Buenos Aires jurisdiction, as long as the continuity or not of Gallardo is defined.
summons to ministers
The Ministers of Security of the Nation, Aníbal Fernández, and Justice and Security of Buenos Aires, Marcelo D’Alessandro, had been summoned for this Wednesday at 9 a.m. to the hearing after the magistrate ordered a precautionary measure as part of an amparo action. which ordered the removal of fences and the custody of the City Police from the vicinity of the Vice President’s house, the site of demonstrations in support of her person after the request for a fiscal sentence of 12 years in prison in the trial for the work public in Santa Cruz.
D’Alessandro anticipated on Tuesday that he would not attend because he considered that, based on the challenge raised by the Buenos Aires Executive against the magistrate in charge of this file“the hearing is without effect” until that issue is resolved.
Gallardo, head of the court of first instance in Administrative and Tax Litigation (CAYT) number 2 of the City of Buenos Aires, resolved in this way before actions of amparo presented by the social leader Juan Grabois and the Buenos Aires legislator Ofelia Fernández, among others. .
Meanwhile, the vigil of protesters in support of the Vice President continued this Wednesday in front of her home, from where she left after 1 pm to go to her office in the National Congress.
Fernández de Kirchner left amid expressions of support and affection by protesters gathered at the scene, who sang the verses of the Peronist march as the former president left.
The Vice President greeted, took several photos with the elderly, children and pregnant women, and also signed her book “Sincerely” to the militants who remain at her home doing a vigil.
The protesters’ vigil began on Monday 22after the prosecutor Diego Luciani requested, in the plea at the trial, a sentence of 12 years in prison and disqualification from holding public office for the Vice President.
The National Cabinet, for its part, expressed its “full backing and support” for the Vice President in “institutional and political terms” for the “judicial and media persecution” within the framework of the meeting held by the ministers at Government House.
For their part, deputy governors of twelve provinces administered by the Frente de Todos (FdT) expressed their support for the Vice President in a document, calling for an “end to the persecution” against her and rejecting “all actions aimed at deepening differences ” that go “against the necessary consensus that Argentine men and women deserve.”
