Jasmine Bullorini
05/19/2021 12:51 AM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 05/19/2021 12:51 AM
Almost six months after the approval of the new law of the Procuratorate in the Senate, the ruling party took
the first step
in Deputies
early this Wednesday
with the signing of the opinion of the project in committees, after a
heated debate
.
In search of the votes to approve it, the Frente de Todos incorporated changes - endorsed by the Minister of Justice, Martín Soria - that attenuate the original text although without the numbers to guarantee the quorum, there is still no date of treatment in the enclosure.
The basic points of the bill sent by the Senate will remain the same:
the attorney general's term is reduced to
five years
- today it is for life;
to elect him
an absolute majority
will be required
instead of the two thirds
currently in force;
removing him will not require a political trial;
and the system is changed to replace it in case of vacancy.
The deputies Rodolfo Tailhade and Herán Pérez Araujo preside, this Tuesday, the plenary of commissions.
If approved, the attorney Eduardo Casal may automatically be removed.
The Frente de Todos imposed its majority in the commissions of Constitutional Affairs and Justice and obtained the dispatch with the accompaniment of the head of the Federal Unit and Equity interblock, Mendoza's
José Luis Ramón
, who managed to get the ruling party to incorporate a Specialized Attorney's Office in Defense of the and Consumers and Users.
The Federal Consensus deputy, Graciela Camano, signed a minority opinion, as did Juntos por el Cambio, which presented one of rejection.
The project
was within reach for the ruling party to deal
with as soon as it achieves a sufficient number to reach the 129 legislators of the quorum.
Today he still lacks between four and six legislators.
The debate - which due to lack of agreement to make it virtual occurred with most of the legislators in person - was crossed by
cross accusations, moments of high tension and screams.
The opposition denounced that the Frente de Todos only seeks to displace the acting attorney Eduardo Casal and "intimidate" prosecutors to "seek impunity";
while the ruling party pointed out that Together for Change seeks to support Casal,
"no matter how
" because it is functional for them.
"Sovietized"
"We are going to reject this project because we consider it contrary to the postulates of the Constitution," announced the radical
Gustavo Menna
, vice president of the Constitutional Affairs commission, and ruled that the ruling party wants a "
Sovietized public ministry
, subject to surveillance and control of the bicameral commission of Congress ".
"They already tried that with the Sputnik vaccine and then the whole society asked for the vaccine," the official Leopoldo Moreau retaliated in turn.
At the start of the debate, the FdT deputy, Vanesa Siley, recalled that
in 2017 the Government of Mauricio Macri also tried to change the Attorney General's law
, lower the majority for his election and cut his mandate.
"We can think today is not convenient for me, the day before yesterday yes, but all the blocks have raised it in history," he said.
The PRO legislator,
Silvia Lospenatto
, for her part, pointed out to the ruling party that the statement of the Executive's candidate, Daniel Rafecas, has been "asleep" for more than a year.
"If you do not like the president's candidate, fix it in La Rosada but do not come to blame us because there is an internship," he declared and announced that if it is approved, they will go to court.
"
If they manage to get a group of deputies to be an accomplice in handing over the Republic, we still have the Supreme Court."
Camano, criticized both Together for Change and the Front of All.
"History repeats itself. The project that the macrismo had is similar to the one that the ruling party has today.
Both were designed to remove the attorney from the moment,
" he sentenced in allusion to Alejandra Gils Carbó y Casal.
To try to get the remaining votes to approve the text, the opinion incorporated several adjustments.
Among them, the power of the Bicameral commission of the Public Ministry -of a pro-government majority- is taken away, which with the Senate text gained more weight in the decisions of the organism, to the point that Soria himself pointed out that it was necessary to "balance" its powers.
The document establishes that the bicameral will not elect a replacement for the attorney in case of vacancy but will send a shortlist to the Executive and the President will be the one who chooses any of those applicants.
In turn, the internship cannot last more than six months
Protest against changes in the law, this Tuesday in Congress.
Photo Marcelo Carroll.
On the other hand, the composition of the Trial Court will be modified;
a point highly questioned as it is key to the removal of prosecutors.
The Senate bill established that 3 of the 7 members would be legislators of the Bicameral Public Prosecutor's Office (two for the majority and one for the minority) and that one of them will preside over the Court.
The modification of Soria in Deputies
reduces to 2 the number of members of the Bicameral, and adds one more prosecutor
.
In turn, it proposes that the presidency be appointed by lottery with rotation every six months.
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