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Judge Daniel Rafecas will not accept being a prosecutor if the ruling party changes the majority to vote for that position

2020-08-20T17:49:20.408Z


Alberto Fernández's candidate to lead prosecutors does not want the requirement to have two-thirds of the votes in the Senate reduced.


08/20/2020 - 12:58

  • Clarín.com
  • Politics

Alberto Fernández's candidate for the Attorney General's Office, Daniel Rafecas, let the government know that he will not accept to assume that position if the ruling party modifies the current requirement to approve that appointment with two-thirds of the votes in the Senate. This possible change - naming the attorney through a simple majority - is one of the modifications that the so-called "Beraldi commission" is studying.

The Kirchner offensive on federal justice - where crimes of corruption of public officials are tried - has been unfolding on several simultaneous levels, one of which is the battle for control of the Procuratorate. Since the resignation of Alejandra Gils Carbó, in October 2017, Eduardo Casal, a judicial career official who holds the position of interim attorney, has been in charge of that office.

The ruling bloc in the Senate - under the tight control of Cristina Kirchner - is pressuring Casal with seven requests for impeachment to force his resignation and crown in his replacement the third in the order of succession, the lawyer Víctor Abramovich, from the Center for Studies Legal and Social (CELS) and man of absolute confidence of its owner, the influential Horacio Verbitsky.

This ultra K move would also disconcert federal judge Rafecas, chosen by Alberto Fernández for the Procuratorate: who is the true candidate of the ruling party to lead the prosecutors?

In the midst of these pulls and palace intrigues, Rafecas made it known that he is not willing to accept his appointment if the demand that the Senate approve it with two-thirds of the votes is not maintained, as is happening now and in line with the requirements for appointing judges.

In the last hours, alleged warnings from Rafecas regarding the K offensive against Casal and his dissatisfaction with the official judicial reform project also emerged . But in the judge's environment, they relativized that information to Clarín . The judge declined to answer questions about it. "Daniel does not want to be involved in any tampering or be the object of interns in Peronism," another judicial source who has known him for years told this newspaper.

Source: clarin

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