Yesterday Ricardo Gil Lavedra made official his launch in search of re-election as president of the Public Bar Association of the Federal Capital with a strong speech in which he charged against past administrations that he linked to waste and privileges.
The former chambermaid of the Junta trial stated that in the elections of the Buenos Aires writers it will be decided "
if we are going to continue governing with austerity or return to privileges, to the gift of 'Rolex' or sumptuous parties
."
The former UCR deputy spoke in the packed Aula Magna of the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires, where he invited everyone present to consolidate the change that had begun and
asked “not to return to the past.”
“Let the
rudeness, the verbal violence, the arbitrariness
, the old and decadent visions not return,” he said before an audience in which the advisors of the national Judiciary Jimena de la Torre and Miguel Piedecasas, among others, were present.
Gil Lavedra took stock of his administration, after taking over after four administrations from Jorge Rizzo, a candidate whom he defeated in the last elections by a tight
48.68% against the 42.67% of Gente de Derecho
, a Rizzista group.
“We were able to fulfill the promises we made in this very house two years ago.
And we reversed the deterioration, moving from a bureaucratized and disorganized School to a digital School,” he harangued.
Ricardo Gil Lavedra launched his candidacy to be re-elected in the Public Bar Association of CABA.
“We also stood with vigor and firmness, when necessary, to defend the duties of lawyers,” said the president of the CPACF, regarding the measures announced by the national government.
In addition, he announced that the College is going to present “
an injunction for the unconstitutionality of the Laundering Law
that violates professional secrecy.”
“The future is played in a very short period,” warned Gil Lavedra, who added that “the next two years depend on the next fifteen days,” he said about the election in which he will compete against his current first vice president,
Patricia Trotta
, who broke with the current leadership and heads the list of
People of Law, which has Rizzo
on the list, which includes a large part of Buenos Aires Peronism and Kirchnerism, whose strong man in the Capital is
Juan Manuel Olmos, a former official of Alberto Fernández.
The People of Law list also has among its candidates
Ricardo Nissen
, former head of the General Inspection of Justice and also a libertarian partner with
Francisco Oneto
, one of the lawyers who represents the president of the Nation, Javier Milei, and who He was a candidate for vice-governor of La Libertad Avanza in the province of Buenos Aires in the last elections, according to the Infobae site.
Lawyer Jorge Rizzo is part of the People of Law list
Gil Lavedra, meanwhile, has the UCR and the PRO among his supporters.
Among the names that support the re-election of the former radical deputy are
Martín Casares, Paula Colombo, Pablo Clusellas
, former Legal and Technical Secretary of Mauricio Macri.
In addition, it is promoted by groups linked to
Germán Garavano
, former Minister of Justice,
Jimena de la Torre
, current members of the National Judicial Council, and
Diego Marías
, former official of the Larreta administration in the City.
From the UCR there is support from the Purple Strip, from
Carlos Más Velez
who is on the list and from the sector of https://twitter.com/DrJorgeRizzo/status/1772284848679383367 In total, there are 13 groups that make up the official front .
A third list is also presented, headed by
Ruben Ramos
, general secretary of the State Lawyers' Association, which has the former Massista deputy
Carla Pitiot
, from the Frente Renovador, as vice president.
Rolex as a gift, complaint for a Chatbot and counterpoint for the money laundering law
In this campaign panorama, Gil Lavedra was categorical and linked past efforts with
luxuries, such as a gift of Rolex
.
In his space they point out that the Rizzo administration approved the purchase of those high-priced watches for the former presidents of the entity, including the head of the People of Law list.
He said that a former UCR deputy who is deciding "whether we are going to continue governing with austerity or return to privileges, to the gift of 'Rolex' or sumptuous parties." He also warned about the value of democratic leadership in the face of authoritarianism.
Rizzo, for his part, has been running a strong campaign on social networks against the management of Gil Lavedra, whom he refers to as “the vampires.”
In addition to uploading spots with the song “Let's go back,” a jingle that popularized Kirchnerism in recent years, he denounced that the ruling party spent more than 10 million pesos on an app.
“How much did the useless APP that Gil Lavedra advertises with great fanfare cost?
In principle, $10,005,000 as of May 2023, but... It seems that there were purchase orders to update this amount in December, between 15 and 20 million more.
With GENTE DE DERECHO # La47 it did not happen”, he launched on his X account.
On April 16 from 08:00 to 18:00 in our Public Bar Association of the Federal Capital it will be...
More about the vampires or...
"PEOPLE OF LAW" #La47
Yes, we are all going to vote, we will return.
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— Jorge RiZZo GdD #La47 (@DrJorgeRizzo) March 25, 2024
Rizzo's criticism points to an app that the CPACF launched with a Chatbot service that answers queries from Buenos Aires lawyers, something similar to the Boti of the City of Buenos Aires that exploded in queries during the pandemic.
Another strong counterpoint between Gil Lavedra and Rizzo occurs around the new Money Laundering law, approved weeks ago in the Senate, which includes lawyers as subjects obliged to inform the Financial Information Unit (UIF) when they detect operations. suspicious of their clients in the context of the performance of their professional activity.
Gil Lavedra announced that he will request the unconstitutionality of that part of the regulations, already arguing that the relationship between lawyers and their clients is protected by the duty of confidentiality and that the application of this new regulations prevents guaranteeing due defense in court.
Rizzo thinks otherwise.
“It is not true that starting tomorrow we lawyers will be obligated subjects of the UIF.
THE provision is a resolution of the FIU Nº48-2024.
Professional secrecy is contemplated by the law and even by the National Constitution,” he argues.