Almost a carbon copy of the February 1, 2022 march against the Supreme Court was the one conducted on Wednesday by the ultra-Kirchner leaders in front of the courthouse, in Talcahuano street.
With the identical argument of “throwing the court out”, less than 2,000 people gathered in the square in front of the judicial building to ask for the impeachment of the members of the highest court, but also to the cry of “without Cristina there is no democracy”: according to the Federal Police there were 3,000, but unofficially they admitted that “The number has been inflated enough to help them out.”
Of the act, convened by the Christianist judge Juan Ramos Padillarepresentatives of different social organizations, parties linked to the Frente de Todos and leaders of the CTA such as Hugo Jasky, a national deputy allied with the Government and one of the few leaders of a certain stature present. Objective data is used to measure the call: As Yasky spoke, 50 people were listening to him on YouTube.
Among those present was also the union leader of the teachers Robert Baradel and former leaders such as Christina Camano, who managed AFI until last year, and the minister of Buenos Aires Cristina Alvarez Rodriguez.
A constant of the act was talk about disqualification against Cristina Kirchnerespecially after she expressed herself in those terms when she was sentenced to six years in prison for the Roads case.
Yasky was one of those who placed particular emphasis on this aspect. “We don’t want a justice that guarantees that the masters of economic power are always richer and workers increasingly poor. That it is at the service of the ruling class, which validates political persecution and bans Cristina,” the trade unionist tweeted.
The CTA leader directly stated that progress needs to be made in “removing Supreme Court justices”. It should be remembered that Yasky is an MP and the lower house’s impeachment committee is where the charge against the four members of the top court is tried.
“Enough with the judicial mafia and legality”was another repeated slogan of a mobilization that had representatives of a number of fringe groups scattered among the people, but not to the most significant of Kirchnerism, such as La Cámpora. There was the militancy of the CTA, of the ATE, as well as the presence of Grannies of the Plaza de Mayo.
Moreover, there was a strong request to Alberto Fernández to decide by decree the expansion of the Supreme Court. “It has to be expanded, either by decree or by decision of the executive branch,” said Hugo “Cachorro” Godoy, who is the general secretary of the Central de Trabajadores Autónoma.
Godoy has also resurfaced an old statement of Kirchnerism in relation to justice. “Democratization is what Congress needs to meet on let the impeachment proceed and root out these four supremes who want to use the justice system as a tool for persecution,” he said.
In the mobilization of 2022, also called by Ramos Padilla, the argument had been the same: to defend Cristina from the alleged attacks of the Court, which she was then asked to “throw out”. But then, even with a smaller number of visitors, there were leaders of greater weight, such as the mayor of Quilmes, Mayra Mendoza, or the former vice president, Beloved Boudou.
He had also brought people Truckers, with Hugo Moyano and Pablo Moyano at the helm. This time, however, the presence of trade unions, beyond the CTA and ATE, was marginal. The CGT did not send representatives, despite the fact that they were discursively trying to claim that there was indeed a CGT presence at the event.
Source: Clarin
