Daniel Rafecas recalled that his document of Prosecutor entered the Senate three years ago: “Filling this vacancy will help to face the drama that Rosario is living”

federal judge Daniel Rafecas recalled that the fold to become National Attorney General was arrested three years ago in the Senate and said filling the position would help combat “the drama that lives Rosariowith the advance of Drug traffic.

President Alberto Fernandez He was the one who offered the job to Rafecas in December 2019, but his candidacy has yet to be debated by the Upper House, a body headed by the vice president. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. His designation came in on March 11, 2020 and was left amid a power bid between the bloc kirchnerista and legislators closest to the albertism.

“3 years have passed since my declaration entered the Honorable Senate of the Nation to fill the vacant position of Attorney General of the Nation”, began the federal judge in his defense in a publication on his Instagram account.

Rafecas argued that holding the position “will help solve the drama that Rosario is experiencing due to organized crime”, which has claimed almost 60 victims so far this year and whose number continues to rise in the country. over the days.

On this subject, the magistrate explained: “The federal prosecutors of the city, such as the Lawyer against drug trafficking (procure) depend on the head of Public ministerwho is the Prosecutor, who must also implement the adversarial model, which is more agile, modern and efficient, in Santa Fe and in the rest of the country (approved by law in 2015)”.

In addition, Rafecas said that filling this position would move forward with “the resources of pending federal prosecutors, trials against humanity could be expedited, move towards gender parity in the MPFN and activate many pending programs”.

In this way, the magistrate confirmed his interest in seeing his document examined by the senators, since he expressed: “On my part, I’m always willing and ready to be summoned to court hearing, and to be subject to the scrutiny of senators and society”.

Since the statement entered the Senate, Rafecas has fallen into the inmate within the In front of allsince Cristina Kirchner and her closest senators were looking for a way to paralyze the processing of her candidacy for the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation.

First, his nomination was delayed by the pandemic which reduced sessions in Congress. Then the draft modification of the parquet and, more specifically, the process of electing the chief prosecutor not only slowed the processing of Rafecas’ candidacy, but also caused the federal judge to decline to be nominated with less than two-thirds of the Senate vote.

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“I cannot continue to be the candidate if that must be the case. There is no way he can be reached,” he told his aides at the time, according to what they said. GlobeLiveMedia. In this sense, Rafecas insisted: “Whether it is me or whoever it is, the Prosecutor must be elected by two-thirds of the Senate.

In this sense, Rafecas argued his decision that “it is the Prosecutor who acts before the supreme court of justiceand because “he is also an actor in the face of other power factors”.

This reform was not approved, which is why Rafecas still insists on his appointment, promoted by Fernández, who tried to have the document dealt with in the extraordinary sessions of the Congress, but did not have the support of the Kirchner sectors. The opposition has even suggested that it could come to support the appointment of Rafecas to the post of Attorney General of the Nation to show that the obstacles to his treatment did not depend on Together for changebut power deals between Kirchner and Fernández.

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