The new power map in the hands of the prosecutors, despite vacancies and lack of leadership

As of August 11, the powerful Federal Justice of Comodoro Py 2002 It will experience a key change: it will no longer be known because the power will pass from the judges to the Tax federal. However, this new order -one of the legacies that the Minister of Justice aspires to leave, Mariano Cúneo Libarona– Find the Head of Prosecutors, the General Prosecutor of the Nationin condition vacant.

In 2017, he resigned from office Alejandra Gils Carbó and replaced it as a subrogant Eduardo Casalwhich was the oldest prosecutor. Since then, macrismo and albertism failed to appoint a new titular attorney who is head of prosecutors and leads this transformation, which For now, Casal carries out with few resources.

President Javier Milei promised to send to the Senate the specifications of his candidate for attorney, but he still did not. It is a matter of a negotiation that includes the votes for the judges of the Supreme Court. Candidates are the judge Mariano Borinskythe city prosecutor Juan Bautista Mahiques And there are even those who risk the name of Sebastián AmerioVice Minister of Justice.

The situation of the prosecutors is complex: they have vacancies of almost 30 percent In their structures, they do not enjoy a clear political leadership, they have few employees compared to the courts and transmit a lot of distrust of the effectiveness of this procedural mechanism.

The vacancies were not covered for various reasons. Some competitions came to an end and the lists with the candidates are in the hands of the Executive Power, which must designate their candidates. And in other cases the competitions were not made because vacancies were privileged in the interior of the country, where the implementation of the accusatory system.

Some of these prosecutors have their history: depending on the circumstance, they consented dismissal when they affected the can or appealed and resorted in other cases to go thoroughly and bring to trial cases of corruption They seemed impossible. They also made feints and time with causes of high political sensitivity that were taken to the rhythm of the moment.

Procurator Casal has the power to dictate the criminal policy and give general instructions, but you have the dictation of particular instructions in each cause. And that line does not cross.

The countercara of this diagnosis is the transparency and advertising of a system that overlaps the officials who have to put it into practice. A mechanism where what is decided must be in public audiencesin which decisions to consent to freedom or dismiss a case must be taken in the face of people.

A tour of The nation Among the members of the Public Prosecutor’s Office before the implementation of the accusatory code allowed to feel that there is a substantive agreement with the new procedural mechanism, but distrust prevails.

The new Process codeThe starter contemplates the establishment of prosecutors of simple cases, complex cases, early care and residual issues, where all current causes will go, including, for example, the case of the COIMAS Notebooks.

The allocation of the causes to these prosecutors will be determined by their complexity and the judges that intervene in each incidence will come from a “bag of magistrates” that will be raffled for each matter to be resolved. Appears The figure of the “prosecutor of the case” that carries the entire process, from beginning to end, even the oral trial.

There will be coordinating and district prosecutors who They will supervise the task of fiscal units. All this requires, then, that the judicial officials who until now were masters and lords of their causes, are under the look of another prosecutor.

The federal system in Comodoro Py 2002 has 12 federal prosecutors of first instance, of which there are five that are vacancies for the death of their holders. One of them is in dispute in justice. The Chamber Prosecutor’s Office was occupied by Germán Moldesan iconic judicial officer who held a kind of political leadership among some prosecutors of first instance. Others questioned him.

Moldes died and the Chamber Prosecutor’s Office was in charge of José Luis Agüero Iturbe. It is a career judicial officer, respected by his colleagues and by the cameramen, who does not have the high profile of molds, which carved both in politics and in the media and justice.

Some prosecutors believe that there will be a real change for the better, others distrust the political opportunity of the announcement in view of the elections, as if justice moved the polls of electoral opinion, and others directly see in this initiative An idea of ​​Minister Cúneo Libarona to generate political impact.

First instance prosecutors today are all Players. They make their game and independently from each other. In some cases there are misgivings among them, but everyone attends their affairs.

Among prosecutors of first instance, in Prosecutor’s Office 1, which is carried by the electoral issues was the prosecutor Jorge Di Lelloalready deceased. A Peronist who came from the hand of Gregorio «Goyo» Corach -Exjuez and brother of Carlos Corach- in the 90s and left its mark among its employees.

The subroga Ramiro Gonzálezwhich is also a prosecutor before the Electoral Chamber. González is the prosecutor who took the case of gender violence against Alberto Fernández and is remembered in the courts for his birthday party on the waterfront, with video and drones included, living room and strobe lights.

The prosecutor Carlos Rívolowhich took resonant cases such as the causes against Amado Boudou or Ricardo Jaime or the murder attempt of Cristina Kirchner, is one of the most experienced.

His neighbor is Carlos Stornellihard prosecutor who was an official of the Ministry of Security in the province and returned to Justice. Promoted cases of corruption such as the notebooks of the coimas and it was object of Kirchnerism attacks.

Has the wall office through Eduardo Taianoa veteran judicial officer who accumulates sensitive causes: from the death of Alberto Nisman, to the case $ Libra against Javier Milei. Prefer the low profile.

The prosecutor Alejandra Mánganodaughter of a historic secretary of Judge María Servini, takes the affairs of her prosecution and cases of trafficking in protex. That prosecution was occupied by the deceased Patricio Evers.

Franco Picardiwho was an official of the Ministry of Justice in Kirchnerism, is the head of the Contigua Prosecutor’s Office, where he has cases of corruption and now investigates the ex -husband of Jessica Cirio. In his prosecution is the Odebrecht case.

Federico Delgado He died in 2023 and his prosecution is vacant. He was the favorite of molds: when he was licensed to tour Italian churches left him in charge of the Chamber Prosecutor’s Office.

Guillermo Marijuan He manages his prosecution without contact with his colleagues and surprises every so often with high profile and political impact opinions. Eternal candidate for procurement, a position that is elusive.

Paloma Ochoaa fierce militant of the feminist cause, works in the Prosecutor’s Office with sensitive cases for the government.

Gerardo Pollicitathe prosecutor who instructed the roads and Hotesur and Los Sauces, is tanned in matters of corruption and accused both Kirchnerism and in some matters to macrismo. It is close to reaching the age when you ask if you must move on or retire. The change of procedural system opens a new scenario.

Above them, in Comodoro Py 2002 are the trial prosecutorsthat carry the causes that are currently at that stage, with audiences in progress or judgments to be done and, above, the prosecutors before the Cassation Chamber.

They are counted Raúl Pleéan experienced who arrived in Comodoro Py from the federal justice of San Martín, who was in a folder in the macrismo to be a attorney and suffered a breakdown at the last moment, with ancestry on some of his colleagues. Mario Villaracademic that guides the Institute of Criminal Law of the UBA, and Javier de Lucathe most disruptive in that strip, to the point that he held for example the absence of crime in the case for the signature of the memorandum with Iran, an idea he shared with the judges that dismissed Cristina Kirchner.

To them, the new procedural code does not reach them on a day -to -day basis, but also attend to the appeals of these matters when they reach the cassation. All in the system, from the first instance to the cassation, have some apprehension, as always that there is a new stage. They ask for more time to adapt, They distrust what to start on August 11 and bet on that date.

Normal fears but, from the government, Cúneo Libarona has the decision to advance with the accusatory system, which may be the maximum and transformation of federal justice since 1992, when Carlos Menem Comodoro Py 2002 devised as an exit for his problems with federal justice.