In the end, Mauricio Macri will not have a foundation with …

The General Inspectorate of Justice (IGJ) denied the name change of an existing foundation to which it was trying to include the name of Mauricio Macri. This is because some secretaries of the former president had asked the public body to change the name of an existing entity – the Change is Possible Foundation for the Promotion and Defense of Republican Democracy, Economic Development, International Integration and Gender Equity (CEPLA) – to call him with his boss’s name. The leader of Juntos por el Cambio had even published an alleged platform with his name on his networks, although on paper it was never registered under that name.

The IGJ denied the lawsuit – in a decision released Tuesday – considering the request “lacks the force necessary” to change the name. Macri reportedly agreed, although the resolution notes that he did not use his original signature. The organization led by Ricardo Nissen argued that the name change “It is not related to the objectives of the entity”, but rather related to “the use of a pre-existing legal structure, for personal and individual purposes”.

Before leaving the government in 2019, the former head of Macri advisers, José Torello, as well as the former secretary general of the presidency Fernando De Andreis and Fátima Micheo, former assistant secretary for communication, registered Cepla with initial capital. of 100,000 pesos. Macri, for his part, does not appear anywhere. On March 13 of last year, the board of directors of CEPLA proposed to change the name of the foundation to be renamed “Fundación Mauricio Macri” and agreed to submit the request to the IGJ.

Without waiting for a resolution, the leader of Together for Change announced on January 27 the inauguration of his foundation, which, he said, would be dedicated to issues related to education, a field he arranged during his tenure as President of the Nation. However, among the social objects that appear in the Cepla statute – the foundation that exists and that has been approved by the IGJ – nothing is mentioned about educational subjects.

It should be noted that the IGJ’s brief also states that in the existing foundation, ie CEPLA, “the owners did not document the donations received and the fulfillment of the pledges made”. “He limited himself to listing a series of invoices for the hermitage by the entities between December 23, 2020 and February 5 of this year for 4 million pesos,” the letter said. Macri’s secretaries had also fixed an address at a building on Paraguay Street, but when inspectors rang the bell, the doorman clarified that they did not know. at the CEPLA Foundation.

Finally, the judgment emphasizes to CEPLA leaders that foundations must “use the name resulting from the statutes”. However, at the time of publication, the platform of the alleged Mauricio Macri Foundation is still maintaining its website.