“We’re going to take a coin from you”: Luis Juez’s catchphrase when he thought his microphone was off

“Great, we’ll get a coin from you,” PRO National Senator said Louis Judge With the microphone open. This morning the nation’s Judiciary Council voted in favor of implementing a one-time sanction of 30% of its salary in session. Miguel Angel GuerreroHead to the federal court of El Dorado in Misiones for acts of abuse and other misconduct by court personnel.

The surprising scene occurred when the Council’s secretary-general took a vote of each member on whether or not Guerrero should be sanctioned. The judges were connected to the session via teleconference and voted in the affirmative. But they left the microphones on and were heard saying: “Great, but we’re going to get a coin from you.”

The secretary warned him that his microphone was open and then the senator turned it off. The phrase generated laughter and some whispered comments among his colleagues. In conversation with infobaeThe judge told what happened. “My microphone was on and I was telling my advisers. If it took us 3 years to approve a judge 30 percent of his salary for just one month for this case, how can we not get a penny? As Juan Perón said, the most sensitive fiber is the pocket.he explained.

“The real caste is that of judges, which is full of privileges. It is almost impossible to approve a judge in Argentina. In this case, the mistreatment of staff has been proven again and we were barely able to approve it in a three-year file,” he said.

The case began with a complaint filed in 2021 by the Nation’s Justice Employees Union against Guerrero. In the file, 35 court employees and officials testified that, according to the opinion approved by the Council, they agreed that they suffered daily violence and workplace harassment by Guerrero. They made reference to harassment, abuse, humiliation, indifference, systematic corrections in files, threats, harassment, demands for attention, preparation of summaries to be filed later, etc. It was highlighted that, except for one of the complainants, all have been transferred to the headquarters of other courts or retired after medical leave. There were also resignations.

The approval of the sanction was quick. Only two of its members spoke at the plenary session of the council. “It is not a pleasure for me to vote on the sanction of a colleague. My role in this judicial council is to protect good judges from attacks on their independence so that they can work without any pressure. The colleague has not understood that for the court to work it must understand that its greatest strength is having a team that supports it and everyone pulling in the same direction. “You have to understand that it was not right and you have time to rectify it to become a better judge,” the judge said. Alberto Lugones,

For his part, the lawyer Hector RecaldeThe president of the disciplinary commission, where the case against Guerrero was processed, explained that “It’s sad to hear the complaints from Dr. Guerrero’s workers.” “The last statement of an employee, the truth is that I had to work as a doctor. He testified for an hour and was in tears telling the crimes he suffered from Dr. Guerrero,” Recalde said, adding that 14 court employees asked the union to intervene, 10 filed grievances, six resigned, three were transferred to other courts for medical reasons, three were on leave due to stress and five had begun summary judgments.

In the case, Guerrero made a defense in which he said that the accusation against him was trivial and contrary to reality and that the work environment was like a border court with an overload of tasks. Thus, he denied the facts and alleged that the complainants did not know him and described another person, while his personality is that of a very cheerful person.

Rekalde highlighted that before Guerrero, there were two other regular judges and another substitute judge in that court who had no problems with personnel.

Of the 20 members of the council, 18 voted in favour of approval and the judges abstained from voting. Diego Barroetevena and Agustina Diaz Cordero,