The cabinet change they promoted Javier and Karina Milei After all, it wasn’t the Justice Department’s responsibility, which is still responsible Mariano Cuneo Libaronaone of the architects of the new criminal code and who enjoys the trust of the President. However, the official has already announced that he wants to leave the department for personal and professional reasons, but the brothers in power in Argentina have asked him to stay in office for at least a few more months. Nobody knows how long and what problem needs to be defined is his successor.
The problem becomes even more complex when, behind the scenes of the executive branch itself, it is assumed that a new phase will begin next March with the opening of the regular sessions of Congress Negotiations with the opposition to expand the Supreme Court, appoint a new lawyer and fill hundreds of vacancies in various courts and privileges and even occupy the vacant seats in the General examination of the nation.
The eventual replacement in the judiciary is crossed by the latent internal conflict between Karina and Santiago Caputowho has been trying to assert himself as a minister for a long time Sebastian AmerioNumber 2 in the portfolio and current representative of the executive branch before the Judicial Council.
His promotion has been paralyzed by this silent and constant confrontation, although on Thursday he received a small nod from the Casa Rosada with the promotion to Minister of Human Rights Joaquin Mogaboruwho had taken on the same role in the defense in place of the one who resigned Alberto Baños, close to the current minister.
The forces of the presidential advisor are pushing for his promotion, but today he cannot overcome the iron fence imposed on him by Karina, the same person who asked Cúneo Libarona in October to continue leading the department, although he is scheduled to travel to Germany in January 2026 to attend lectures to further develop his doctoral thesis. In the same month, the criminal media expert was invited by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to give a lecture on anti-discrimination policy in Jerusalem.
Two other names were mentioned for the position of head of justice: Guillermo MontenegroBrand new provincial senator and former mayor of Mar del Plata, whose joining the PRO would have deprived him of the chance to take over the portfolio.
That was also rumored Santiago ViolaRepresentative of the LLA and trusted lawyer of Karina Milei, could end up in this position, but the idea lost force because he was “considered associative by Comodoro Py” due to the case in which he was a defendant for an operation against the federal judge Sebastian Casanello -in which it was stated that the judge had visited Cristina Kirchner in the Olivos villa – a meeting that did not take place. But in 2021, Viola later benefited from a ruling by the Criminal Cassation Chamber. Privately, he denies having received an offer from the libertarian.
In any case, Cúneo Libarona would remain in office at least until March, although the Milei know that he wants to return to privacy, also to take care of family matters. In the meantime, it will continue its projects to expand the adversarial system throughout the country and to “organize” the powers of the economic and federal criminal justice system.
The major challenge for the ministry is to obtain resources to be able to implement the adversarial system, one of the grievances of the public ministry. A possible successor to Cúneo Libarona must have “expertise” in legal matters but also political volume to raise funds to implement the adversarial system in most of the provinces where it is authorized (currently 17).
In principle, Justice and Security must defend the ambitious criminal law reform project, which is still in the Legal and Technical Secretariat. There is speculation that he will enter Congress in a few more days: Patricia Bullrich urges the establishment of project evaluation committees in both chambers, which act as a kind of “filter” and then allow debate in the chamber to be rationalized in principle in regular sessions of Parliament.
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