Carrió alleges worst corruption occurs during World Cup, targets judicial appointments

Elisa Carrió, a prominent opposition figure in Argentina, has voiced strong accusations of widespread corruption, particularly during World Cup periods. She asserts that key institutions like the Council of the Magistracy and the Ministry of Justice are engaging in corrupt practices by manipulating merit-based rankings in selection processes.

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the worst things happen during the World Cup.

Carrió, who authored the law that reinstated the Council of the Magistracy's previous structure, argues that the current system allows for arbitrary decisions. She points to the alteration of examination results and merit orders, which she believes are not made by individuals with the professional capacity to evaluate candidates. This manipulation, she contends, serves to ensure future impunity for those in power.

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Corruption, according to the Royal Spanish Academy, is the degradation of something, of the essence of something. What we can currently qualify as corrupt is the Council of the Magistracy, also the Ministry of Justice of the Nation and in the elevation it makes to the President with the profound alteration of what are the merit orders in relation to the council's contests.

She specifically called out Horacio Rosatti, the president of the Supreme Court and the Council of the Magistracy, for signing off on these questionable decisions. Carrió expressed concern that if the Council of the Magistracy is handed over to political parties and subject to "spurious transversal agreements," the constitutional mandate from 1994 will be fundamentally distorted.

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What they are doing are repeated and permanent acts of corruption by altering the results of the exams, thereby guaranteeing the future impunity of the current rulers.

To combat this, Carrió proposes a legal reform that would give precedence to exams and professional backgrounds, allowing only a minimal margin for subjective evaluation. She warns that failure to implement such changes will lead to an escalation of corruption, weakening the independence of the judiciary and the separation of powers as enshrined in the Constitution.

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It is strange that in many cases it is also signed by the president of the Council of the Magistracy himself, namely the president of the Court.