(Liliana Franco Report). The presidential spokesperson, Manuel Adorni, announced this Wednesday that the Government will send to Congress the specifications of 150 judges, prosecutors and ombudsmen, as it had anticipated Scope. He did it together with the Secretary of Justice, Sebastian Amerio, who gave details of the initiative.
“This Government received a heavy inheritance, with a vacancy of 30% of judges and 50% of prosecutors, which made it impossible for the system to function correctly. It’s like playing a soccer game with three fewer players,” Amerio explained during Adorni’s usual press conference.
In a subsequent statement, the Minister of Justice of the Nation, Mariano Cúneo Libaronahighlighted that “this was achieved with a single representative of the Executive Branch in the Council of the JudiciarySebastián Amerio, who is doing an excellent job.”
During the press conference, Amerio explained that all candidates to judges that they will send to the Senate “they previously went through a selection carried out by the Judicial Council in which their suitability to occupy the position is judged.”
What is the negotiation for appointments like?
As reported to Scope government sources, the senators intended to elect the majority of the 150 judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys, in exchange for approving the specifications of Ariel Lijo and Manuel García-Mansillathe candidates proposed by the Executive for the Supreme Court.
The Government did not accept it. “They wanted to put the greatest number of judges in exchange for the vote for the judges of the Court. It was destroying everything. The list that emerged is fake. It is a list from the Council of the Judiciary,” he told Scope a government source.
The intention of the ruling party is to send between 20 and 25 lists of judges to the Senate every day. In this way, in eight business days they would be able to send the majority. However, there are some small bureaucratic and political problems that could conspire with these times.
He bureaucratic inconvenience It has to do with the documentation requirements to prepare the applications. To submit the specifications, candidates must be asked to submit an affidavit and update their resume, but some have not yet done so.
Another problem is political in nature. The Government does not have a single interlocutor in the Senate with which to negotiatewhich would make it difficult to reach the necessary agreements.
What is the procedure for the appointment of judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys?
The appointment of judges, prosecutors and ombudsmen announced by the Executive Branch It is made from a shortlist sent by the Judicial Councilthe body that is “in charge of the selection of magistrates and the administration of the Judicial Branch”, created after the 1994 constitutional reform.
Once the shortlist has been prepared, it is sent to the Senate of the Nation, the body that will have the final word on the appointment. To be effective, you need the agreement of two thirds of its memberspresent in the session where the vote is taken.
Source: Ambito
