According to the bloc led by Juan Manuel López, the National Constitution and a ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights determine that they restrict the scope of decrees to regulate access to public information.
“Limitations to the right of access to information They can only be established in an exceptional manner by a law of the Honorable Congress of the Nation and must be interpreted restrictively, Always in favor of guaranteeing the right of access to public information“, the authors of the bill say.
In this regard, they stressed that “the exceptions were clearly and specifically established by Law No. 27,275, and new exceptions or restrictive interpretations could not be incorporated by regulatory means, nor could they be done so through a interpretation with general scope“.
The initiative was presented by Victoria Borrego, Juan Manuel Lopez, Marcela Campagnoli, Maximiliano Ferraro, Monica Frade and Paula Oliveto.
Civil organizations rejected the decree that modifies the law on Access to Public Information
For their part, non-profit civil and social organizations also rejected the modification that the Government ordered through decree 780/24. They claim that it seeks restricting a fundamental right for democracy and denouncing it as a “serious regression” in state transparency.
They also expressed their “concern” about the legislation and claimed that it “attempts to restrict the right of Access to Public Information.”
The document is signed by 20 associations, including Citizen Power, the Center for Public Policy Implementation for Equity and Growth (CIPPEC), Legislative Directory, the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS), Amnesty International and the School of Prosecutors, among others.
The constitutional lawyer spoke along the same lines Andres Gil Dominguez“It violates a right considered essential to the democratic system.”
Through his official account on the X platform (formerly Twitter), the constitutional lawyer pointed out that “decree 780/2024 that Its purpose is to regulate Law 27,275 on access to public information “modifying the previous regulatory norm (decree 206/2017) is unconstitutional because it unreasonably alters its contents, ignoring the provisions of art. 28 of the Argentine Constitution and art. 29 of the American Convention on Human Rights.”
Source: Ambito
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