Buenos Aires Province and a judiciary co-opted by Kirchnerism

The Justicialist Party (PJ) has governed Buenos Aires Province since December 10, 1987, with a brief interruption between 2015 and 2019 due to the single term held by María Eugenia Vidal, from PRO. During this period of nearly 40 years (including during PRO's term), the only one who had the necessary majorities in the Bonaerense Legislature for the appointment of judges was the PJ.
In Buenos Aires Province, judges are nominated by the Governor (Executive Branch), who proposes candidates from a binding shortlist submitted by the Judicial Council, with the Senate's approval, granted in a public session.

To summarize the procedure, you should consider that, first, the Judicial Council, which is a collegiate body whose authorities are elected through elections (which Kirchnerism always wins), carries out the selection of candidates to fill judicial vacancies. This process generally includes public competitions, background evaluations, and interviews, among other stages.
Once the candidates are selected, the Judicial Council submits to the Executive Branch, with the Governor at the head, a binding shortlist of candidates for each vacant position.

The Executive Branch, based on the proposed shortlist, appoints one of the candidates to fill the position of judge. This selection process is not based on merit according to the scores obtained by the applicants. An example of this is that those with the lowest scores could be selected without any impediment. Practically always, the candidates ultimately selected are those who have some kind of connection with the current political power. Finally, the Bonaerense Senate votes to appoint or reject the candidates proposed by the Executive Branch in a public session.

In summary, the process of appointing judges in Buenos Aires Province begins in the Judicial Council (with a Kirchnerist majority), which then submits the proposals to the Executive Branch (headed by Kirchnerism), so that their candidates are then voted on in the Senate (which has a Kirchnerist majority).
That is, Kirchnerism selects and proposes the shortlists, Kirchnerism nominates the candidates, and finally Kirchnerism votes for them.
This reveals the operation of a justice system that is completely co-opted by a Kirchnerism now embodied in its Governor, Axel Kicillof, where the entire system answers purely and exclusively to him.

Furthermore, in 2023, through Resolution SC No. 1342/23, the Supreme Court of Justice requested the Executive and Legislative Branches to create judicial bodies in various jurisdictions within the provincial scope, in the Criminal, Civil and Commercial, Family, Administrative Litigation, and Labor Courts. It also requested the completion of the appointment processes for the magistrates corresponding to the bodies created by various laws, which are pending operation.

This way, the Bonaerense Supreme Court requested Axel Kicillof and the Legislature to create, in the criminal sphere, Courts of Guarantees in Dolores, La Plata, Lomas de Zamora, San Martín, and San Nicolás; the creation of Correctional Courts in La Plata and Necochea; Execution Courts in Quilmes, Morón, La Matanza, and San Martín; Oral Tribunals in Dolores and La Plata; Criminal Chambers in Azul and La Matanza; Family Courts in La Matanza, La Plata, Moreno-General Rodríguez, Pergamino, Quilmes, San Isidro, Bahía Blanca, Lomas de Zamora, San Nicolás, and Zárate-Campana; Administrative Litigation Courts in La Matanza, La Plata, and Quilmes; and Labor Tribunals in La Plata and San Isidro.

Meanwhile, regarding the request to complete the appointment processes for magistrates, it demanded those corresponding to the bodies created by various laws and which are pending operation, such as the Correctional Courts of Moreno General Rodríguez and Pergamino; the Criminal Tribunals of Moreno-General Rodríguez; the Chambers of Appeals and Guarantees and the Civil and Commercial Appeals Chamber of that department; the Family Courts created in Tigre and Mar del Tuyú; the Administrative Litigation Court of Moreno-General Rodríguez; Chamber II of the Administrative Litigation Appeals Chamber of La Plata; and the Labor Tribunals of Moreno-General Rodríguez and Lomas de Zamora.

Ultimately, this is an elephantine justice apparatus, with expectations of being expanded even further, and where Kirchnerism embodied in Axel Kicillof enjoys absolute dominion.
What does this mean? No matter how much he tries to deny it, Axel Kicillof controls the entirety of the justice system in Buenos Aires Province.