Senate: an ally of Kirchnerism presented a project to elect and remove the Attorney General with an absolute majority

Jasmine Bullorini

11/13/2020 17:05

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Updated 11/13/2020 17:05

In the midst of the advance of the ruling party to modify the organic law of the Public Prosecutor's Office, the senator from Rio Negro, Alberto Weretilneck - who has his own monobloc but is an ally of the Frente de Todos in voting - presented a project that proposes to cut the attorney's mandate to five years and that

;

an intermediate instance between the simple majority and two thirds.

It also 

The Cristinista, Oscar Parrilli, will add him to the debate of the Justice commission that meets on Monday and the ruling party

Until now, the FdT - which does not publicly whitewash if it wants to modify the majority necessary to elect the attorney and ensures that

- had resorted to the two opposition projects, the only ones with parliamentary status, to install the debate: that of Lucila Crexell (MPN) and that of Martín Lousteau (UCR).

Both texts, although they cut the office of the attorney to five and six years respectively, do not establish changes in the aggravated majority of two thirds to appoint him.

But the Weretilneck text does.

He proposes five years of mandate and election by absolute majority, that is,

: it would be 37 of the 72 affirmative votes of the Senate.

which is a majority of those present at the time of voting. 

"By ceasing to be for life, two-thirds lose sense for their election

. I believe that it is the right project at an opportune moment, because it

and can generate a way out of this situation. With this project Mauricio Macri could have appointed Inés Weinberg de Roca and the ruling party could do it with Daniel Rafecas, "Weretilneck

tells

and assures that he did not agree with the FdT on his presentation or that he was guaranteed support.

The text also incorporates changes in the

a point that Parrilli had emphasized in the last meeting of the commission.

"The Attorney General of the Nation can only be removed for reasons of poor performance, common crimes or crime in the exercise of his functions", it establishes and the removal may take place:

by absolute majority of its members ", or"

by the absolute majority of its members. "

There are also changes in the mechanisms for the removal of prosecutors. "From my point of view there is a corporate mechanism in the style of the military who judge themselves," Parrilli had pointed out at the meeting on Tuesday in relation to the fact that the prosecutors who must be removed by a trial court, but if the attorney endorses that procedure.

The Weretilneck bill raises the members of the Trial Court from 7 to 9 - with a greater presence of representatives of the Senate - and establishes that it will be convened by the president of the same.

The original law establishes that it will be summoned by the Procurator and that the president can call if there is a complaint because the Procurator dismissed a complaint.

Parrilli had already advanced that the commission will not issue an opinion until the advisory commission created by Alberto Fernández - known as the "Beraldi commission", after the name of Cristina Kirchner's lawyer who also integrates it - is issued.

"Before discussing the specifications of a possible attorney, it is essential to finish discussing the new Law on the Public Prosecutor's Office, and then define the attorney's profile," said the official senator Martín Doñate last week.