2023-12-06 06:48:00
Just four days before the presidential inauguration, Javier Milei faces a legal challenge that might put his still incomplete Cabinet assembly in check. Due to different current legislations, Karina Milei might not be appointed to the General Secretariat of the Presidency and Rodolfo Barra might not take over as Attorney General of the Nation’s Treasury.
According to ley 18.777, which defines the operation of the Treasury Attorney General’s Office, the designated person must be no less than 30 years old, nor more than 70 years old. Article 2 details: “The Attorney General of the National Treasury must be an Argentine citizen, not less than thirty nor more than seventy years, lawyer with the qualifying title issued or revalidated by the Argentine University and with at least eight years of experience in the profession. The journalist Martín Angulo was the one who highlighted this situation on his Twitter account.
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The controversial Rodolfo Barra was announced on Friday, December 1, as the new attorney of the National Treasury by Javier Milei, despite already being 75 years old. After his appointment, his past resurfaced in the media, since the lawyer with extensive state legal experience and former Menemist minister had to resign from his position in the 1990s due to his links to phil-Nazi groups. He was even denounced by Domingo Cavallo for the stagnation of the cases for the attacks on the Israeli embassy and the AMIA.
Barra was a member of the Nationalist Union of Secondary Students, a youth political organization linked to the Tacuara Nationalist Movement, of profile affiliated with fascism and neo-Naziwhich remained active between 1957 and 1966. “Youth militancy in the Nazi group Tacuara was, for years, the Minister of Justice’s best-kept secret,” indicated a 1996 magazine note NEWSwhich includes the following statement from Barra: “If I was a Nazi when I was young, I apologize”.
In the first interview he gave following the noise generated by Milei’s decision, the new official stated: “I was 15 years old, I was a teenager. When you are a teenager you lack maturity, knowledge, many at that age do crazy things, I had to do this crazy thing. Others, at an older age, were terrorists“It didn’t happen that I had to participate in a violent act and I didn’t consider myself a Nazi,” he explained and added: “I had a complicated adolescence, I gave my parents a lot of work.”
Why the designation of Karina Milei, “The Boss” is in danger
The sister of the president-elect, usually called by the members of La Libertad Avanza as “The Boss” was the one who managed the electoral strategy that brought Javier Milei to the presidency. Therefore, she sees her older sister as a crucial figure for the deployment of her vision of government and decided to appoint her to the General Secretariat of the Presidency.
However, decree 93promoted in 2018 during the government of Mauricio Macri prevents that appointment. In order to improve “the institutionality, integrity and transparency of all public policies carried out” by the national government, the decree prohibits the appointment of direct family members in “the entire public sector.”
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“It is provided that no appointments may be made of persons, under any modality, throughout the National Public Sector, who have some kinship link both in a straight line and in a collateral line up to the second degree, with the President and Vice President of the Nation, Chief of Staff of Ministers, Ministers and other officials with the rank and hierarchy of Minister. The spouse and the Cohabitant Union are included,” details article 1 of the decree.
When he came to government, Alberto Fernández announced that this rule would be modified, although in the end it never happened. Milei alternatives are limited and it is unlikely that he will give up his intention to keep his sister Karina close. According to him he revealed Page 12Among his possibilities is to eliminate the decree through a law, appoint Karina through a decree that contradicts that of his political ally, Mauricio Macri, or find some way to exempt himself from the law.
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