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.