So-called ‘mistake’ bought Cristina Kirchner time for her millionaire’s pension

An alleged error by one of the lawyers for Cristina Kirchner at the cause of her millionaire pension as former president, generated delays and charges in the case. Today, the Social Security Appeals Chamber must decide to admit a group of opposition deputies led by lawmaker Jimena Hebe Latorre (UCR), as “third volunteers” in the case where they oppose that has Cristina Kirchner received an honorary pension of approximately 1.6 million pesos. At the same time, there is another request for amicus curiae in the case of a lawyer named Jimena de la Torre, like the UCR deputy.

In the midst of the briefs submitted, the vice-president’s lawyer, Facundo Fernández Pastor, He made a mistake and confused the radical MP with his namesake, who is a former lawyer of the AFIP macrista. The alleged confusion resulted in a delay in defining judges which ultimately benefited Cristina Kirchner.

The first step was the presentation of a brief in which the opposition deputies led by the radical Latorre asked to be taken as third volunteers in the dossier that the Chamber had two months ago, and in which they must decide to leave the decision of the substitute judge Ezequiel Pérez Nami to grant Cristina Kirchner the double pension which is equivalent to approximately 1.6 million pesos, or if, on the contrary, it forces her to choose between one of the of them.

The second letter was signed by lawyer Jimena de la Torre, who was AFIP’s legal adviser during Mauricio Macri’s administration and who is currently a member of the Bases Republicanas group which brings together hundreds of lawyers. With his proposal, he asked to be Amicus Curiae (Friends of the Tribunal) in the same case, objecting to the vice-president receiving a double honorary pension.

It is still the Social Security Appeals Chamber which must decide whether to accept the deputies in the framework of the case and the Bases Republicanas association, and in turn, which must determine whether Cristina Kirchner will continue to receive a double board.

But everything will be delayed a little longer, since the vice-president’s lawyer, when he refused to have an Amicus Curiae in the file, asking for a quick resolution of the central issue, mixed the two presentations. He attributed the radical deputy’s request to Jimena de la Torre, which was presented on behalf of the lawyers’ NGO.

Sources of the case indicated at Bugle that faced with the confused situation, that they do not believe in a “simple mistake”, and that only “they managed to gain more time before a final decision”.

It is the Appeals Chamber which must rule on the two points, but also on the merits, after the appeal of ANSES carried by Fernanda Raverta: if Cristina Kirchner were to continue to receive the double pension of 1.6 million pesos.

Despite the fact that the judicial resolution is still lacking, since April 5, the Secretary General of the Presidency Julio Vitobello has indicated in a resolution, published in the Official Journal, that Cristina Kirchner will receive the double pension by decision of ANSES, for which she resigned from her salary as President of the Senate.

In the middle, the error of the vice-president’s lawyer was raised, which became a new letter, “the complainant addressed the undersigned as” national deputy Jimena Hebe Latorre “, completely confusing me, as I am neither a national deputy, nor My name is not either “Jimena Hebe Latorre”, being my full name, María Isabel Jimena DE LA TORRE “, declared the lawyer in her complaint.

In this confusion, the lawyer pointed out that Latorre was seeking to have a double participation in the case, as a voluntary third party and as an amicus, “by virtue of what was clarified, it is rejected and shows that the accusation brought by the applicant as to what one seeks to participate doubly in the case is manifestly erroneous, there is no identity of subjects or object with the appeals presented by other litigants ”, a he declared before the court of appeal.

Last week, the vice-president’s lawyer refused to accept other parties in the case and warned judges that accepting opposition MPs who claim to be parties “in defense of the interests of the State “, this could have an impact on the cases where the questions related to the retirement of the magistrates are discussed, because under the same criteria Cristina Kirchner be plaintiff in this other case.

The last word ordering this interlacing of writings, while Cristina Kirchner already receives the double honorary pension, will be from the members of the Tribunal composed of Fasciolo, Sebastián Russo and Fernando Strasser.