The project of Clean Sheet, that prevents leaders with convictions for corruption who have second-instance rulings from being candidates, formally entered the Chamber of Deputies for treatment in extraordinary sessions. What does the text of the ruling party say?
Unlike the project promoted by the PRO, the UCR and the Civic Coalition, The official proposal establishes the prohibition of being a candidate only for those convictions in the second instance handed down before the election. Furthermore, it prevents convicted of corruption perform as chief of staff, minister, secretary, undersecretaries or in decentralized organizationspublic service entities and in the Chancellery, as well as in public companies.
The president Javier Milei had signed the initiative last Friday, before traveling to USA, where he participated in the president’s swearing-in Donald Trump.
With the new project, the ruling party will sit down to dialogue with the allied blocs that support the Clean sheet, since both Kirchnerism and the left flatly reject this initiative. The proposal was also endorsed by a majority sector of Federal Meeting, while the dozen legislators of Democracy Forever wants to extend the ban to those accused of crimes of drug trafficking, rape, and human trafficking.
To sanction the project, an aggravated majority of 129 votes in deputies and 37 in the Senate. In Deputies There is already an opinion from the commissions of Constitutional Matters and Justice on Clean sheet, but the idea of the ruling party is discuss it again in committee to avoid incorporating the changes in the session area.
As reported Scope, Uncertainty reigns over the future of the project. The dates for the call to be discussed in committee have not yet been determined. Furthermore, the Chamber of Deputies will continue in renovations for at least one more week, while the ruling party intensifies tension with its main ally, the PRO, and legislators from all blocks continue vacation.
What does the Clean Record project say that will be discussed in extraordinary sessions
The project establishes that Those accused of crimes of fraud to the detriment of the public administration, of bribery and influence peddling, embezzlement of funds, negotiations incompatible with the exercise of public functions and illicit enrichment.
“The assumption provided for in this subsection It will be applied only in cases in which the sentence imposed had been confirmed in the second instance, issued before December 31 of the year prior to the electoral process.in which the commission of at least one of the crimes established in the first instance sentence had been confirmed, although the sentence imposed was modified,” the text reads.
It also clarifies that, If the ruling is signed as of January 1 of the same year of the electoral process, it will be applied in the elections that will be held in two years.
Throughout the project, it is established that the National Electoral Chamber will maintain a Public Registry of Clean Record where the second instance sentences that confirm the commission of at least one of the crimes established in the first instance sentence, their eventual revocations and the identifying data of the people affected by said sentences.
Source: Ambito
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