New passage between the government and the court: this time, for the treatment of judges

The government's relationship with the Supreme Court is at a critical time, after the pressure exerted by the ruling party on the oral court that judges former President Cristina Kirchner so as not to suspend the commencement when the Court asked for the entire record to badyze the various appeals that raised the defense of the accused for irregularities during the investigation of the case.

The pressure came to the supreme judges, who saw how their personal addresses spread on social networks and they were scribbled to their close relatives. Since the return of democracy, there is no record of such an open act of pressure on judges, considered much more than a political attack.

The Court had agreed with the government on a general 15% wage increase in May. Two weeks ago, the Chief of Staff the formal request for money transfer.

But the chief of staff, Marcos Peña, responded to weekly subscriptions that they would do two sections corresponding to increases of 7.5% in May and 7.5% in July. The official strategy is to divide the increase so as to have a smaller impact on the half-wage supplement that must be paid in July, in order to achieve an additional saving.

In addition, Peña informed the Court that these resources should be added to a 10% increase in March, so that The salary increase quota for this year was covered.

When the official communication reached the secretariat of the Presidency of the Court, it immediately convened the five members to establish a position, which was reflected in a reply received by Peña the same day. The Court replies that the 10% paid in March was 2018, that the payment had been deferred due to lack of funds and that they expected that the commitment to transfer before the end of the month the necessary funds to comply with the. agreed increase of 15% is respected.

The union of Judicial he is aware of the government's refusal to release the funds. That is why there were two stoppages last week, May 22 before the courts and chambers of the country, which also reached the courts, the seat of the judiciary. Thursday, unemployment has spread to the whole country.

The confrontation of the government with the Court found this time the unified bloc of judges. President Rosenkratz joined Ricardo Lorenzetti, Horacio Rosatti, Juan Carlos Maqueda and Elena Highton. It was also Rosenkratz's attempt to come to terms with his peers, whom they identify as the intellectual author of all the official rhetoric aimed at attacking the court.

Last week, in a surprise decision and with the signature of the five members, the Court declared illegal the payment of unpaid sums to an employee of the gendarmerie. The case, although individual, is multiplied by all employees of the security forces in activity and retired, generating an estimated tax cost of $ 80 billion.

This is the response of the Supreme Court to the pressure exerted by the ruling party and its parapublic apparatus that manages social networks during the trial of Cristina.

The election campaign includes CFK on the bench, but also and more importantly to fill the zero deficit and show political control. And the court has the key to complicate the government.