The president of the Public Bar Association of the Federal Capital, Ricardo Gil Lavedra, warned that the country, together with the economic and social crisis,
“has a high rate of immoral poverty”
and uncertainty in courts about the laws to be applied by the mega DNU of President Javier Milei.
Gil Lavedra pointed out that “there is a word that sums up all this: Uncertainty.
Uncertainty about what is going to happen to us tomorrow, and
also uncertainty about what the applicable legal regime is
.”
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“The national government is promoting profound changes voted for by a large part of the people, but – until now –
it has not found the appropriate legal instruments to translate it
,” he analyzed.
“This leads to the fact that today - in many cases - it is not known what is in force and what is not.
The daily discussions, what happens with the DNU regulations, (some are there, others are not there, there are precautionary measures, etc.).
Projects that we do not know if they will be realized or not.
In these very difficult circumstances,
controversies also do not help to establish predictability
”, He warned.
He said this when taking stock of the 640 days he has led the institution that brings together legal professionals, in the reopened restaurant hall on the first floor of Corrientes 1441, and before an audience that exceeded four hundred people.
The former chambermaid who prosecuted the commanders of the last dictatorship thanked – in the first instance – all his colleagues on the Unidad list, and had a special paragraph of recognition for the staff of the institution who accompanied the act.
Gil Lavedra confessed that it was his first experience at the head of the School.
“When we took over, it was closed, abandoned, without organization, without structure, with overlapping functions,” he said.
“We have gone through, and are going through, a phenomenal economic crisis, and that we have been able to carry out all these works in this period demonstrates a super efficient administration of resources,” he stressed.
Faced with the scenario presented, he reiterated that “the task of judges and lawyers is very important.”
“This is a moment in Argentina, when - like never before -
we must strengthen the independence of justice
, so that it can validate what needs to be validated or invalidate what needs to be invalidated,” he stressed.
In this sense, he added that “the lawyer, who is at most an auxiliary of justice, fulfills a central task.
Our work tool is the law, it is our daily task instrument.”
“And lawyers are the first defenders of the rule of law and the guarantee of all inhabitants,” he added.
In a more intimate tone, the president of the CPACF maintained that “it is also up to us to guarantee the validity of all these great principles.”
“What gives integrity, what gives stability to a society is the validity of the Constitution
and the laws, because those are the ones that mark the limits, those that chart the course, those that lay the path within which it must be done.” develop any government policy,” he pointed out.
Finally, Gil Lavedra assured that “the College that comes has to be a serious, professional, prestigious College, that defends its duties as we have done, and that also defends the Constitution and the law.”
He stressed that “this is not the time for petty personal adventures or returning to the past.”
“We have to continue this path.
And the challenge remains enormous,” concluded the former chambermaid who prosecuted the commanders of the last dictatorship.
Among the large audience, the counselor of the Judiciary, Jimena de la Torre;
the Buenos Aires cabinet minister, Roberto García Moritán;
the head of the local Superior Court of Justice, Inés Weinberg, and her colleagues, Luis Lozano and Marcela de Langhe;
and the advisors of the Buenos Aires Judiciary, Rodolfo Ariza Clerici, Javier Concepción, and Lorena Clienti.
Judge Mariano Borinsky and the dean of UBA Law, Leandro Vergara, were also present.
The president of the Argentine Federation of Bar Associations (FACA), José Luis Lassalle, could also be seen;
the former Minister of Justice, Germán Garavano;
and the former Legal and Technical Secretary, Pablo Clusellas.