Deputies called a special session to discuss the Clean Record project

As Ámbito advanced. The authorities of the Chamber of Deputies called a special session for this Thursday at 10 a.m. to discuss the Clean Record project and trial in absentia.

That day the officialdom, he PRO and the UCR will seek to sanction the bill that allows the trial in absentia in serious crimes against humanity for those accused who have fled or are not in the country, as is the case with the Iranians accused of the attack on the headquarters of the AMIA.

Special session in Deputies: Clean Record and Trial in absentia

Thursday’s will be last session of the first ordinary period of the government of Javier Milei. It was requested by the PRO legislator, Cristian Ritondo.

There the Freedom Advances and the dialogueists will insist on the debate of the draft Clean Sheet. He himself seeks to prevent the leaders convicted in second instance be able to be candidates in national elections, a regulation that mainly targets former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

The ruling party, together with its allies, had tried to approve Clean File last Wednesday, but the session failed because they lacked one representative to reach the necessary quorum of 129 legislators; On this occasion, the trial in absentia was added to the agenda. To be approvedthe Clean Record proposal It must be approved by an aggravated majority of 129 votes in the Lower House and 37 in the Senate.

Currently, applications for elective office can only be prevented when there is a final ruling from the Supreme Court of Justice. The majority opinion proposes as a minimum standard for the electoral disqualification the principle of double compliance, that is, the conviction in the second instance.

It covers the criminal offenses of bribery and influence peddling, embezzlement of public funds, negotiations incompatible with the exercise of public functions, illegal exactions, illicit enrichment of officials and employees, concealment and fraud to the detriment of the public administration.

In detail, all the topics to be discussed in Congress on Thursday will be:

• OD 469. Law 23,298. Organic Law of Political Parties. Modification of article 33.
• OD 485. Penal Code, Federal Criminal Procedure Code and Criminal Procedure Code. Modification in matters of Recidivism, Reiteration, Concurrence of Crimes and Unification of Sentences.
• OD 243. Law on Rights, obligations and requirements of the Argentine citizen as a voter outside the territory of the Argentine Republic. Registration of Voters Resident Abroad. Creation.
• OD 679. Criminal Procedure Code and Federal Procedure Code. Modification on Trial in Absence of the Defendant.