The Legislature of Black River approved this Wednesday the bill of Clean Sheet sent by the governor Alberto Weretilneck, preventing leaders with convictions for intentional crimes they can be candidates for national and provincial positions, as well as occupy party positions.
Within the framework of the extraordinary sessions, the local parliament gave the green light to the official initiative with 36 positive votes and five negative votes, and it was highlighted as a “a real shock of confidence” por part of the administration of Together We Are Río Negro (JSRN).
Río Negro approved the Clean Record project
The new law contemplates that no person with a double conviction for intentional crimes for both provincial elective candidates and party positions. The norm also includes similar restrictions in the case of officials of the Provincial Executive Branch.
Weretilneck added in this sense that “This law, which was born from a project by the Executive Branch, marks a before and after in Rio Negro politics. It is not just a law: it is a commitment to ethics, transparency and a policy that responds to the values of society. In Río Negro there is no place for criminals or the corrupt.”
“Today Río Negro has decided what type of politics it wants for its future,” he expressed through his X account.
The Executive project was approved with the almost full support of the different blocks that make up the Legislature, with the exception of five members of the Peronist bench. Let’s go with everyone.
The initiative modifies articles 83° and 147° of Law ON° 2431, Electoral and Political Parties Code. It is the only one of its kind at the national level, since it contemplates all intentional crimes, thus reaching even minor crimes against people and not only against the Public Administration, as is the case of the other projects known so far. Exceptions are those convicted of crimes against honor, that is, slander and insults (Title II, Second Book of the Penal Code).
It should be noted that different projects in this regard had already been presented in the Río Negro Legislature by various political parties.
The President disappointed the opinions of the provincial legislators of the PRO and UCR, whose blocks had opportunely presented projects in this regard.
The so-called “clean sheet” was already sanctioned in Chubut and Mendoza in 2020, in Salta in 2021, Santa Fe in 2022 and Jujuy in 2022. Meanwhile, in the remaining Argentine provinces, different projects linked to the topic have been presented.
Opposition
From Peronism, they demonstrated against the project. The legislator Magdalena Odarda He assured that the project violates the National Constitution and the guarantees established in international conventions and agreements.
In particular, he referred to the “violation” of the state of innocence, which constitutes one of the maximum guarantees of the accused in the criminal process, and the principle of res judicata, which is obtained with a ruling from the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.
“We understand that a project of this nature, at this historical moment in the country and the province, can be understood as a tool of political proscription.”
For the same block, José Luis Berros He based his rejection on criticism of former provincial officials and the independence, impartiality and suitability of the Río Negro Justice Department.
In dissent from his block, Luciano Delgado Sempé supported the project. He justified that “people are crying out in the streets for honesty and transparency in politics.” “I can’t stop hearing the neighbors who ask us for this gesture of transparency, of honesty,” he said.
Source: Ambito
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