After the approval of the law that seeks to confront the gambling addictionon online betting sites, the Chamber of Deputies failed in its attempt to reach the quorum (116 present, 13 missing) that a new electoral reform: Clean Record. The project lost parliamentary status and has to be discussed again in committees.
It was the last call for the ordinary sessionsin a week that had three consecutive days of activity at the venue. The attempt of PRO in trying the project (he had an absence due to illness and two absences from the province of Santa Fe) failed again despite the fact that he had support from the Civic Coalition, Democracy Forever and the UCR. They even obtained less than in their call last week for the same agenda, in which they reached 128 attendees.
The reason was less support from Freedom Advances (they went from 2 to 10 faults), the total emptying of Federal Innovation, Independence (Peronist Tucumans allied with Casa Rosada), Union for the Homeland and the Left Frontand lower participation of Federal Meetingwhich points to a new disrespect of the provinces in the face of the official intransigence to deal with the Budget 2025.
To the reform that sought to exclude citizens with second-instance convictions from electoral candidacies, another electoral modification in the regime of suffrage of Argentines living abroadto enable them to do so by postal method. There are also two proposals that would change the Criminal Procedure Code and the Penal Code: he trial in absentia and the categories of recidivism and repetition.
Anger due to the fall of the session in Deputies
Once the session is over, Silvia Lospennato (PRO) -project promoter- took the floor and expressed her annoyance: “I guess the corrupt are going to be celebrating today and the terrorists are also going to celebrate.“. “We all know that this law today It fell because impunity is very powerful“, he noted and added that “we do not believe in coincidences and unforeseen events. Last week I thought in good faith that there were deputies who had unforeseen events but today I feel mocked.” “It’s not going to stay that way for the citizens, who are going to look closely at who those are who did not come to the premises today,” she concluded.
He had the same tone Juan Manuel López (Civic Coalition)who pointed to Freedom Advances: “Don’t lie to people. They want to confront Cristina Kirchner, they want her as a candidate. They are willing to lose the election for a short-term tactic that could do very harm to Argentina. That is the agreement and it has just been consolidated.” “I do not wish that for my country, I wish that those who have been convicted of corruption, as article 36 of the Constitution that was drafted 30 years ago says, They cannot be candidates because they are traitors to the country.“he added.
Rodrigo de Loredo (UCR) He was the third to intervene and, after highlighting the Latin American countries and national provinces that already have Clean Files, he stated that there is “a structural magnitude of corruption in which many blocks today are being complicit.” “The ruling party has ensured that this does not prosper in its ultra-polarizing strategy, for immediate electoral purposes.“, he interpreted.
Deputies: what the projects were about
The opinion of the project Clean Sheet was reached in September of this year and seeks prevent those who have a criminal conviction with a second-instance ruling for certain crimes from being candidates for elective public positions such as influence peddling, embezzlement of public funds, illicit enrichment, concealment and fraud to the detriment of the public administration. The temporary disqualification would be maintained until the conviction is revoked or the sentence is served.
outside of Union for the Homelandvoices grew that understood that the project was electoralist because it had a first and last name, by expressing the prohibition of running in the face of second-instance rulings (and not with a firm condemnation). In this framework, they considered that in their next treatment, given that the project lost parliamentary status, it should extend the Clean Record of judges and other non-elective Executive officials.
PRO Deputies
Mariano Fuchila
The other proposal on the agenda would seek to modify the Registration of Voters Resident Abroadcreated by law in 1991. Within this framework, it was intended to enable the postal vote instead of the current system, where the vote in person at Argentine consulates.
For its part, the reforms of the Penal Code and Criminal Procedure Code around the reiterationwhich would imply that a person who is being prosecuted for various criminal cases spends the investigation time in a confinement context before being tried. It also sought to aggravate the sentences for recidivism and the unification of sentences, and figures are established that they extend preventive detention: presumption of danger of flight, obstruction of the investigation and repetition of crime.
Finally, the trial in absentia modifies criminal procedure legislation to allow the continuity and completion of the criminal process even if the accused is absent in some crimes. In this framework, the authorization would be specified when a judge declares rebellion of the accused for not appearing before the Court, for being absent from home without justification or for having escaped from their place of detention, in the case of certain crimes considered serious.
Source: Ambito
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