Former president of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, waves to her supporters who gathered outside her home in Buenos Aires on November 13, 2024. Photo: AP/Victor R. Caivano.
Former Argentinian President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner called President Javier Milei a “little dictator” following the latter’s decision to eliminate her pension after a court convicted her of corruption in a case widely considered lawfare.
“You are so out of line that the little dictator inside you is starting to show,” Fernández wrote in a post on X on Thursday, November 14.
In her post, the former president questioned the authority that Milei attributed to himself to determine that the pension granted by law to former officials and judges does not apply to Fernández de Kirchner due to a question of “honor.”
“The pension for former presidents is not granted for good performance, but for the merit of having been elected by the people as Presidents of the Nation,” explained Fernández de Kirchner in the message. She also asked Milei to stop giving “illegal orders” to his officials and to “seek advice.”
Lo único que te faltaba Milei!!!
Ahora resulta que, además de ser titular del Poder Ejecutivo, querés crear y presidir un “Tribunal de Honor” para juzgar el honor, el mérito y el buen desempeño en el cargo de los ex Presidentes y ex Presidenta de la Nación. Y para colmo… ¿Un… pic.twitter.com/hMXHsIUUmx
— Cristina Kirchner (@CFKArgentina) November 14, 2024
Milei decided to revoke the retirement benefits and pension of former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, arguing that she does not deserve such rights after being convicted of corruption following a controversial trial that lasted three and a half years and that has been criticized for irregularities throughout the process.
The measure encompasses both Fernández’s personal pension and the one she received as the widow of former President Néstor Kirchner. Together, it amounts to 21.8 million pesos (around $22,267) per month.
“Tribunal of Honor”
“Now it turns out that, in addition to being the head of the executive branch, you want to create and preside over a ‘Tribunal of Honor’ to judge the honor, merit, and good performance in office of former presidents of the Nation,” Fernández de Kirchner continued in her message. “And to top it off… A court with authority to impose and apply penalties in addition to those of the Judiciary?” she asked, referring to Milei’s comments that he would create a “tribunal of honor” to decide the merits of former presidents.
“And tell me, who will constitute this ‘Tribunal of Honor’?” she continued. “You, your sister, and [presidential spokesman] Adorni? Really, if you hold a contest to find out who is the stupidest, it ends in a tie.”
Fernández de Kirchner emphasized that the misconduct of a president can only be judged by the National Congress through the constitutional process of impeachment while the president is still in office.
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“Only the people, through their representatives, can revoke a president’s honor and merit of having been elected,” she highlighted. “Which part do you not understand, Milei? Basic constitutional law. To think that there are people who voted for you believing you know a lot.”
She also questioned the “judicial mafia” that handed her a six-year prison sentence in the Roadworks case on Wednesday and asked Milei if he wanted to associate with it to persecute her as well.
ChatGPT’s view on the inconsistencies of the ruling
At the end of the message, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner made an ironic remark about Javier Milei’s liking for artificial intelligence and attached a response given by ChatGPT when asked to analyze the ruling in the Roadworks case.
“I know that you like artificial intelligence (I like it a lot, too), and now that you are going to the US in a few days to see Elon Musk, why don’t you ask him what we can do to create a judiciary with artificial intelligence?” she asked Milei. “Can you imagine the amount of money the State and all Argentinians will save that way?”
She then added the ChatGPT response to a question on its objective view of the inconsistencies in the Roadworks ruling without providing the defense’s opinion to the AI tool.
As a general reflection, the AI pointed out that the ruling “presents inconsistencies both in the construction of evidence and in the logic of the arguments.”
“These shortcomings could be used to challenge the legal solidity of the conviction and, in some cases, could be interpreted as violations of fundamental principles of criminal law such as congruence, the presumption of innocence, and due process,” concluded ChatGPT.
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Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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