Cristina’s vision of the judiciary, the opposition and the media is reflected in the report / web
The Government will transfer the dispute that it has had for a long time with the Judiciary, the opposition and the independent media to the UN Human Rights Council, with the presentation of a document in which it advances with issues that are central to the ruling party although, of course, they are far from the real problems that affect people such as inflation, poverty, work or falling income.
This move by the Executive generated much controversy and a cascade of criticism from the opposition, which came out to make its position clear with strong pronouncements (see separate).
Argentina must present tomorrow the so-called Universal Periodic Review (UPR), in which an overview of human rights in the country is outlined. And it will precisely use that space to demonstrate, for example, against judges and prosecutors who carry out “fraudulent criminal proceedings” to obtain the “ban” of figures such as Vice President Cristina Kirchner. But the document, which was drafted by the Human Rights Secretariat with the technical support of the Foreign Ministry, also attacks the opposition and the media that are not related to the Government. In addition to outlining, without further ado, the vision that the Vice President and President Alberto Fernández have on the institutional situation of the country.
“Hate Speech”
In the report, the Secretary for Human Rights, Horacio Pietragalla, maintains that in our country there are “hate speeches”, which culminated in “the attempted assassination of Cristina. “These postulates are increasingly noticed in various political spaces, in the mass media and on social networks. It is a complex problem that is of concern at the international level, ”he says.
Precisely in tune with the Vice President’s speech, the concept of lawfare (“legal warfare”) was introduced in the document to attack the Judiciary, the party system and companies.
“Another of the challenges facing our country is the phenomenon of “lawfare” or “legal warfare”. In the Government they understand that lawfare, supposedly promoted by the Judiciary, the opposition and concentrated sectors of economic and media power, is a practice that violates human rights. In addition to functioning as a determining factor in electoral processes, the political agenda and public opinion.
“In these judicial cases, such as those faced by the former President of the Nation, under the excuse of investigating and punishing acts of corruption, fundamental guarantees of the Rule of Law are violated: basic guarantees of due process are ignored, such as the presumption of innocence, the right to defense and the principle of objectivity that should guide the actions of the Public Prosecutor’s Office. These criminal cases are promoted only against political references that represent popular sectors, while powerful sectors are maintained in impunity, which have allowed or endorsed the criminal indebtedness that has generated poverty and indigence in the population.
It is key to note at this point that in the case of the cases for alleged corruption that followed, the Vice President had the opportunity to exercise her right in court, her defense appealed the sentence of the Highway case in the Supreme Court and before Arriving at the oral trial there was a long process that complied with all the steps contemplated in the current legislation.
“Proscription”
The report also talks about proscription. “Unfortunately, although the National Government changed in December 2019, and thus ended the practice of subjugation of judicial independence by the National Executive Power, political persecution in the judicial branch is fully in force, as members of the Judiciary and the The Public Prosecutor’s Office continues to carry out fraudulent criminal proceedings against the main political figures of the current ruling party, formerly in opposition to the government of the previous administration. The persecution strategies, whose ultimate purpose is the banning of central figures on the political scene, are carried out in practice by judges and prosecutors who regularly visited the former president, both at his official residence and in his private residences, which demonstrates the spuriousness coexistence between both sectors and the continuity of a policy of harassment that affects the democratic principles of our country, especially those that make the independence and impartiality with which the Nation’s Judiciary and the Public Ministries must act”, it is indicated .
