In the midst of the “Ciriptogate” ramifications both in the Argentine courts and in the United States and other countries, President Javier Milei appointed Ariel Lijo and Manuel García Mansilla as members of the Supreme Court of Justice. The decision did nothing but envive the fire of the political controversy. The opposition questioned the appointments.
“The highest court cannot function normally with only three ministers,” explained the president’s office and said that the Senate eluded the responsibility of issuing a green light so that Lijo and García Mansilla could obtain a place in the Supreme Court without the direct intervention of the Executive.
Lijo is considered a federal judge of strong influence. Sensitive causes that never advanced or whose opinions caused strong controversies passed through their hands. “He is the federal judge with the most political waist and more ancestry over his colleagues,” said the newspaper ´La Nación`, while recalled The suspicions of an alleged illicit enrichment They also point against their brother. The Civil Association for Equality and Justice (ACIJ) considered that it is among the most denounced judges before the Council of the Magistracy, the instance that judges the magistrates. It was also criminally denounced by illicit association, money laundering and bribery.
As for García-Mansilla, he is a specialist in oil-related issues, a challenging ignition of the right to abortion. Dean of the Law Faculty of the Universidad Austral, linked to Opus Dei, SIntoniza with the ideological agenda of the ultra -right government.
The president’s office recalled that the National Constitution empowers the first executive authority to cover vacancies in the Supreme. This attribute was exercised during the governments of Nestor Kirchner (2003-07) and Mauricio Macri (2005-19).
They have not lacked analysts who mentioned Milei’s hurry for modifying the political agenda when the impact of the consumed scam with the digital asset $ Libra tends to spread. The ´Forbes` magazine has just described “the greatest robbery in history.” Milei was an enthusiastic promoter of the meme, and then returned on his steps, ensure that he was not “internalized” in his details and, days later, try to take off from the thymus when photographs, conversations and other compromising evidence appeared. The entrance of Lijo and García Mansilla to the Supreme was a presidential obsession of months, but has accelerated in parallel to the main crisis that crosses the capitalist Anaco.
Ukraine and monopolies
Milei’s marches and countermarkers during the last days cause surprise even in the allies. Argentina abstained at the UN to support a resolution of support for Ukraine. The television extermination had invited Volodomir Zelensky to his inauguration, in December 2023. In several public interventions he spoke of the “aberrant” Russian invasion. His vehement statements were corrected to The effects of aligning once again with Donald Trump. “The distance from his admired Zelensky could not be more brutal,” said the ´The Online Policy portal.
Similarly, Milei went from defending the allegedly beneficial function for the economy of monopolies to question them after the Clarín Group, which controls the main Argentine newspaper, the cable television business, the Internet and part of the telephony, to Through Telecom, he acquired the operation of Telefónica in Argentina for 1200 million dollars.
“The only monopoly that is bad is the monopoly that is determined by the force of the State,” he used to repeat. “The first thing to understand is that monopolies are not bad. Moreover, I would tell you that monopolies can be wonderful. If you do not like there is one, do not get angry with the one that is, wire with those who are not, not with the one that is. Because he who is fixing problems for people. Unless arranged by the government, that this is another problem, but the problem is not that there is only one entrepreneur, but that the problem is that the State is. “
´Clarín` is an active protagonist of the political life of this country. He has had strong clashes with the governments of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. The relationship with the current government is at times conflictive and one of the reasons why it denounced the “monopoly” character of Telefónica’s acquisition. “The National Communications Entity (ENACOM) will be given intervention and the National Commission for the Defense of Competition (CNDC).”
