While the parliamentary ruling negotiates wills to advance with the proposed agenda in extraordinary sessions, the Executive You already have a series of projects which will try to approve during the ordinary period, including the Modification of the Criminal Procedure Code which could occur on March 1 at the opening of the legislative year. Aggravation of sentences, perpetual of effective compliance and elimination of the figure of femicide.
The government advances in the drafting of a series of modifications to the federal accusatory system through which it will propose a hardening of penalties. “We are writing a new Criminal Code, which aggravates penalties”expressed a source with Casa Rosada’s office.
In the libertarian administration they consider that in recent times the current criminal legislation “was very condescending with the perpetrators” so they intend to reform the current system to aggravate punishments. “We want a more punitive criminal system that punishes criminals and at the same time those who are imprisoned,” they emphasized from Balcarce 50.
In the Executive they work in the last details of the changes that would be implemented to the current Criminal Code. The intention of those who are behind their modification is to be presented within three weeks. “It could be ready for March 1, with the opening of ordinary sessions. The president would be presenting,” they advanced to this medium.
From the Government House they affirm that the libertarian administration took as one of its priorities the reform in the accusatory system. And they ensure that, compared to previous efforts, “we are moving faster than anyone in accusatory matters in the last 20 years.”
One of the aspects under analysis is to modify the application of life imprisonment. Currently, in Argentina it represents a maximum penalty time of 35 years, with the exception of isolated cases. “It is being legally analyzed that the life imprisonment is perpetual and not that they can leave for different reasons of the prisons,” they said from the National Executive.
One of the crimes in which the government evaluates to modify the penalties is the case of Violations For the aggravated sexual crimes will propose that the Perpetual condemnation.
At Casa Rosada they consider that, in parallel to the changes to the Criminal Code, The penitentiary system must also be modified. “As it is, they don’t work,” they say. Who is behind the reforms is the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich. The objective is to enable the system Private prison.
Regarding the figure of “Femicide”, Currently in force in the accusatory system, the libertarians pose their elimination. The aggravating bond will remain, but the figure that contemplates tougher penalties when the crime is related to gender issues will be removed. “Putting (to a law) the title of gender entity is very noble, but below that it is sinister,” they said from the government.
He Minister of Justice of the Nation Mariano Cúneo Libarona had advanced last week that the Government will eliminate the femicide figure of the Criminal Code. He argued that the administration “defends equality before the law enshrined in our National Constitution” and that “no life is worth more than another.”
Regarding the abortion law, A sensitive issue for both the government and society, the libertarians will not present any change. “It is a more complex discussion, there is less clarity,” they said from national management.
The new changes that the Executive will introduce arrive just months after the Commission for the Reform of the Criminal Code, created and expanded by resolutions 25/2024 and 48/2024 of the Ministry of Justice of the Nation that Mariano Cneo Libarona leads, will carry out the last one of a series of meetings in which changes were reviewed and corrected to the new Criminal Code project for the Nation.
The last meeting of the Commission was held in October. Over there They concluded the integral review of the project and made corrections. Among the members of the commission was the minister Cúneo Libarona YeThe President of the Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation, Mariano Borinsky. They also participated The federal judge María Eugenia Capuchetti, The judge Ricardo Ángel Basilico; The jurists Julio César Báez, Jorge Eduardo Buompadre, Carlos Alberto Manfroni, Horacio Jaime Romero Villanueva, Fernando Oscar Soto and the jurists Valeria Onetto and Mercedes Rodríguez Goyena.
Source: Ambito
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