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The Government insists with Daniel Rafecas, despite the brake that Cristina Kirchner put on her candidacy for attorney

2020-11-11T02:29:43.780Z


Santiago Cafiero and Vilma Ibarra asked the Senate to speed up the appointment of Alberto Fernández's candidate. Kirchnerism opposes and advances with a reform of the Procuration law.


Guido Carelli Lynch

11/10/2020 10:49 PM

  • Clarín.com

  • Politics

Updated 11/10/2020 10:49 PM

They are two of the officials closest to President

Alberto Fernández

.

Both, according to various interpretations of the Casa Rosada, had been identified after the public letter from Vice President

Cristina Kirchner

.

The Chief of Staff, 

Santiago Cafiero, 

and the Legal and Technical Secretary,

Vilma Ibarra,

came out to support the candidacy of Federal Judge

Daniel Rafeca

s to the

Attorney

General, while

Oscar Parrilli

- right hand of the president of the Upper House - advances with a project to modify the Law of the Public Prosecutor's Office.

“Daniel Rafecas

is the candidate for the President's Office

.

We hope that its specifications will be approved because we need an attorney legitimized by Congress ”, Ibarra declared in dialogue with Futurock.

The official thus alluded to the fate of the interim prosecutor who assumed in the Cambiemos era.

 Eduardo Casal.

Cafiero, for his part, charged against the opposition, which he accused of blocking the treatment of the Rafecas statement, which had 700 supporters and only 3 challenges.

"The discussion is centered in the Congress, the procedure is that. We

suffered a blockade

of the opposition regarding treating Rafecas as a possible attorney so that he can explain what his project was," the chief of staff told El Uncover Radio. .

The support of the officials closest to the President for the magistrate in charge of the federal criminal correctional court number 3 to become the chief prosecutor was not accidental.

In August it had emerged that Rafecas would not accept the position if the law that requires the attorney to be elected with the support of

two-thirds

of those present in the Senate

was modified

.

Parrilli, the former president's right-hand man, is pushing for the modification of the law and, also, to

limit the duration of the attorney in office

, an issue on which there is consensus between the ruling party and the opposition in the Senate.

Last week the statements of another official very close to the head of state, the Minister of Justice,

Marcela Losardo

, generated a short circuit with the deputy

Leopoldo Moreau

, sword of the vice president in the Lower House.

Losardo had demanded that the Senate accompany the appointment of Rafecas, after the founder of the Civic Coalition, 

Elisa Carrió

-a tough opponent-, made explicit her support for the Government candidate, in a move that is also seen with good eyes in the Headquarters of Buenos Aires Government. 

“The strange thing is that the minister

has appeared only for this

(Rafecas' nomination).

Six months ago we have been debating judicial issues, such as the Stornelli case, the situation of the attorney Casal and the justice reform, nothing more and nothing less, ”Moreau said.

Carrió denied that there was dialogue with the ruling party to advance the appointment of Rafecas and argued that Cristina Kirchner could anoint

a militant candidate

for the position.

That support did not go down well with Kirchnerism.

The Legal and Technical secretary, meanwhile, had also referred to the sinking of the judicial reform that never advanced despite the fact that the President presented it as his own project.

"It's a shame," he said.

The sayings of Cafiero and Ibarra followed one another after legislators from La Cámpora in the Senate (they control the Agreement Commission,

where

the Rafecas document

sleeps

, through

Anabel Fernández Sagasti

) made it known that before the appointment of Rafecas the priority is to modify the law.

"First we are going to discuss the law of the Public Prosecutor's Office and only then will we see the appointment of the attorney," they

detailed in the wing of the official bloc most aligned with Cristina Kirchner, as Clarín stated this Sunday.

This sector encourages the chief prosecutor to be elected by an absolute majority;

that is, 37 of the 72 senators and not two thirds

.

This Tuesday, at the meeting of the Justice and Criminal Affairs commission chaired by Parrilli, the senators

Martín Lousteau

, from Together for Change, and

Lucila Crexell

, from the MPN;

who last week tried to withdraw their initiatives - to limit the office of the attorney to 5 and 6 years respectively - but the ruling party did not allow it.

"We are discussing the methods of control of the prosecutors, the role of the evaluation council, the duration of the attorney's mandate, and the method of election," they explain in the environment of a high-ranking Kirchner senator.

The Government, meanwhile, insists with Rafecas.

Source: clarin

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