Kirchnerite councillors failed to gather the votes needed at the Magistrates Council to approve the impeachment motion filed against Federal Judge Claudio Bonadío. The motion only received seven of the nine votes needed for it to be approved.
However, the judge was sanctioned with a financial penalty of a 50% wage deduction, which only needed seven votes to be passed.
Bonadío faces at least eight complaints in the Council. The judge faces charges of not moving forward with investigations involving Menem-era officials and last month he was accused of ordering to stop the search for Lucas Menghini Rey, the last victim of the February 2012 Once train crash.
The magistrate has been under fire from the government after he ordered a raid on Hotesur hotel company that is partly owned by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
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