SUSPENSION OF THE PASS: The Government seeks electoral reform in deputies

The government already achieved the quorum in Deputies For the session that will treat the Electoral Strengthening Lawwhose most emblematic modification is the SUSPENSION OF THE STEP For the electoral period 2025. In addition, the agenda includes reforms in the Criminal Code and Criminal Procedure: Changes in reiterative, recidivism and condemnation; and the Judgment regime for absence. This Wednesday the ruling also ruled clean file.

With backups of its main allies (PRO, MID, provincial referents), More support from the Civic coalition and other accompaniments divided from the different radical blocks and Federal Meeting, The ruling is optimistic to achieve the average sanction in all its initiatives. Anyway, the government gave: its initial intention was the Elimination of the PASSEDbut only found consensus for suspension. The session, which began at noon, It could extend about 17 hours.

At the beginning of the day, the assumption of the Deputy Ricardo Garramuño -Exconcejal de Ushuaia- on behalf of Tierra del Fuegothus occupying the bank of Héctor Stefani (Pro), deceased in October last year. There was a controversy in the succession because who preceded Stefani in the electoral list was the radical leader Dalila Norabut finally Garramuño imposed for the indications of the Gender Parity Law.

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Suspension of the step: debate in deputies

By explaining the majority opinion, Santa Fe Nicolás Mayoraz (La Libertad advances) considered that “there is a overwhelming majority of citizenship against the passagebut what citizens realize the political class has a hard time realizing. ” , he said but pointed out that he could be discussed again: “There is a commitment of our space of need or not to continue with this tool in the future“

As representative of the minority opinion, and in rejection of the libertarian project, the Buenos Aires Christian Castillo (FIT) He analyzed that “we are discussing a totally functional agenda to the government that only interests them. This project has nothing to do with economic resources, because the bulk of resources is no longer implemented because there is a single ballot, but it is because of the manipulation of the electoral calendar to bring it to the convenience of Milei and the ruling party”

One of the opposition referents, the Santa Fe Germán Martínez (Union for the Homeland)He said that “Milei wants to deepen the fragmentation of all political spaces. He wants to end up swallowing the PRO, eating a piece of radicalism and trying to sow tares in the other spaces -even in ours “. “We have to form a majority that allows exactly the opposite, that we can give him the political unity that the people of the Nation need to have a totally different agenda,” he added.

In turn, the Buenos Aires Silvana Giudici (Pro) recovered data from 2017 to qualify as “Irrational” the designation of resources to carry out the step “Up to five internal lines competing reached 0.1% of the votes” and ratified their support for the ruling party: “We have not managed to efficient the mandatory resources that must be given to political parties so that society has an answer for the greatest transparency, participation, competition and equity. “

Within the UCRthe different looks that live in space were explained. The Buenos Aires Fabio Quetglas (UCR) He stated that “mechanisms are brought to discussion in which all citizens will not participate and it will be more difficult to conduct political fronts. That has a name: All power to the birome. But what worries me most is the narrative that going to vote is a nuisance, a wear and something that nobody wants. “

Session in deputies: what each project is about

Although there are consensus to approve the SUSPENSION OF THE STEPthere are still uncertainty of the other points that make up the “Electoral Strengthening Law”which limits the gratuity of the proselytizing propaganda, exponentially increases the contribution that private ones can make (of a limit of 2% of the total electoral funds, passes to 35%) and hinders the conditions to become a national party.

As for security projects, it seeks to reform the Criminal Code in its article 50 to aggravate in a third the Condemn for repeat offenders (“Any person who has been sentenced two or more times to a deprivation of liberty”). Article 55 is also replaced for unify condemnationsindicating that “the penalty applicable to the inmate will have at least the minimum and at most, the arithmetic sum of the maximum penalties corresponding to the various facts.”

Deputies Santiago del Estero

Peronist Santiago deputies are observed for their accompaniment to the libertarian project.

Mariano Fuchila

As for the criminal reiterance (Transgressive conduct of the law in which there was no condemnation), it would begin to be considered as an argument to determine the preventive detention during an investigation (it modifies article 218 of the Criminal Procedure Code). Within that framework, figures are established that They expand the conditions for preventive detention: Presumption of danger of escape, obstacle to criminal investigation and reiterative.

Finally, the judgment in absence It modifies the criminal procedural legislation to allow the continuity and culmination of the criminal process even if the absence of the accused is given in some crimes. Within that framework, authorization would be completed whenor a judge declares rebellion of the accused for not appearing before the court, for absenting at your home without justification or for having escaped its place of detention, in case of certain crimes considered serious.