They will make a march to the Judicial Council to request the dismissal of Judge Luis Rodríguez

Under the slogan "Without justice, there is no republic", this march will be held Thursday to ask the Council of the Judiciary that move forward with the referral of federal judge Luis Rodríguez, accused of receiving bribes millionaires in exchange for favoring the former private secretary of Néstor Kirchner, Daniel Muñoz, in an investigation related to the cause of the notebooks.

Organized by the Bar of the City of Buenos Aires, it will begin at 18:30 and will take place in front of the headquarters of the multi-sector body located at Libertad 731.

In a statement, the entity headed by Guillermo Lipera said the march was aimed exercise the right to ask the authorities to deepen audits in federal courts and disciplinary measures are taken to give greater transparency and the efficiency of the justice service.

The mobilization will have as speakers the philosophers Santiago Kovadloff and Diana Cohen Agrestand the lawyer specializing in constitutional law, Daniel Sabsay.

Among the personalities who expressed their support for the # 28F march are the national deputy Elisa Carrió, director Juan José Campanella, the humorist Alfredo Casero and the Business Convergence Forum, which includes 26 private sector entities, including the rural society, the Institute for Business Development of Argentina (IDEA, the Association of Banks of Argentina and the Christian Association of Business Executives) .

In addition, a petition from the website Change.org has already added more than 55,000 signatures in favor of the removal of the judge. "It is our duty, as citizens who pay taxes, to ask these judges to be the subject of a serious investigation and to be dismissed if their guilt is proven," says the text of the web platform on citizen participation.

Rodriguez was in the eyes of the storm after Carolina Pochetti, the widow of Daniel Muñoz, revealed as part of his statement that he was repenting for the cause of the notebooks that her husband had confessed before dying that by through his lawyer Miguel Ángel Plo, He had paid the magistrate $ 10 million to stop a money laundering investigation of about US $ 70 million resulting from the purchase of properties in the United States. -United.

The former accountant of the marriage Kirchner Víctor Manzanares and Elizabeth Municoy, accused of being a figurehead of Muñoz and Pochetti, also repentant in the cause of the notebooks, confirmed being aware of the payment to the federal judge.

The cause was born in 2013, labeled as illicit enrichmentand resulted in a dismissal of Muñoz and his wife. However, it was reactivated from a CRF report after the Panama Papers scandal.

Prosecutor Carlos Stornelli then asked for the freezing of his badets and his preventive detention in the case, but Rodríguez rejected his arguments. In October, Federal Judge Claudio Bonadio asked Rodriguez to submit the investigation because of his connection to the cause of the notebooks.

Rodriguez refused, which generated a kind of judicial standoff, which resulted in the decision of the Federal Chamber II to remove Rodriguez from the case, after deciding that he had allowed Exemption from the imprisonment of Pochetti and five other people involved in the case without evaluating all the evidence presented by the prosecutor's office.

Following the declaration, the The Discipline and Prosecution Commission of the Judicial Council unanimously decided to adhere to the affidavit of the badets of the Federal Magistrate and asked Bonadio the statements of all the accused in the case of notebooks where Rodriguez had been named.

In parallel, a criminal case was opened in the federal court of Sebastián Casanello. The judge delegated the investigation to the prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita, who must investigate Rodriguez's corruption. During, the magistrate who occupies the Federal Court 9 of Comodoro Py has already accumulated 8 charges before the Council.

The same arrival of Rodriguez in his post was surrounded by controversy: a few days before the competition, an employee of justice asked the Court Instruction No. 11, which was then Rodriguez, a folder whose theme was similar to that of the case. that he had to resolve to the examination.

Radicalism opposed his appointment to the Senate, but also to human rights organizations such as the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS), the grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, children of the capital and the mothers of Founding Line of the Plaza de Mayo.