In the Federal Penitentiary Complex No. 1 of Ezeiza, this Thursday, October 2 at 6:00 p.m., President Javier Milei will lead the presentation of the new Criminal Code of the Nation, accompanied by the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, and the Minister of Justice, Mariano Cúneo Libarona. After 105 years, Argentina will replace the text sanctioned in 1921 with an integral and updated norm.
The project, the result of the work of the Criminal Code of the Criminal Code composed of judges, academics and specialists, extends the articles from 316 to 920 articles, unifying in a single regulatory body the current code and more than a thousand special laws that, over a century, fragmentaryly modified the system. The final wording carried out a process with more than a hundred meetings and consultations to magistrates, prosecutors, defenders, judicial bodies and civil organizations, which guaranteed amplitude of views and technical consensus.
According to specialists, the text is presented as a modern, coherent tool adapted to the challenges of the 21st century. It contemplates crimes that were not typified a century ago, such as drug trafficking, trafficking in people, cyberdelites linked to the use of artificial intelligence, structural corruption, organized violence, porn -vegetation, animal cruelty, environmental crimes, pyramid scams, attacks on road safety and virtual kidnappings, among others. In addition, it hardens penalties, reinforces the protection of the victims and seeks a clearer and stronger response to the crime.
A curious aspect, taking into account the Timming of the National Government when presenting this bill for the reform of the Criminal Code in the midst of the scandals of the audios of Diego Spagnuolo, which splashes the sister of the president for alleged request for coimas, and the affair of the candidate of Lla for the future legislative elections, José Luis Espert, with the drug trafficker Antonio “Fred” machado. Media events that the administration led by Javier Milei tries to avoid, aiming that the results of the next suffrage on Sunday, October 26 play in favor of the ruling party. Given this panorama, on social networks, the memes were present.
“Hardening of corruption penalties, organized crime and common crimes (robberies, scam Of those used with the phrase “they already captured little J, but the little one is still free.”
The elaboration of the new Criminal Code was led by Dr. Mariano Hernán Borinsky, vice president of the Commission and Judge of the Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation, together with trajectory jurists such as Jorge Buompadre, president of the Commission, Judge María Eugenia Capuchetti and Dr. Fernando Soto. All had the political and institutional support of Milei, Bullrich and Cúneo Libarona, who promoted the initiative as a structural change in the heart of the Argentine criminal system.
More than a century, fifteen constitutional governments, six military dictatorships and eighteen reform commissions passed without the integral update. With the presentation of this new Criminal Code, the ruling party seeks to leave behind a historical debt and mark a before and after in the legal organization of the country. But political times denote that this type of proposals seek to give a blow to try to remove the media agenda from the scandals and propose another speech.
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