translated from Spanish: Members agree to extend deadline to nominate attorney general of Michoacan Morelia

; Michoacán-in Conference Committees of Justice and governance session, members who integrate them unanimously adopted seek the extension of the deadline for the appointment of the Attorney General of the State, and prioritize the preparation and approval of the organic law of the Attorney General of the State of Michoacan de Ocampo.
The transitory articles of the Decree 631, which transforms to the Attorney General of Justice of the State (PGJE) Attorney-General, raised in a period of 60 days after the entry into force of the same (official newspaper / 13/08/2018) shall issue public call for the appointment of the Attorney general, what would have to occur later than 6 November; However, it also has that not more than 180 days the organic law of the Prosecutor’s Office must be issued.
The Deputy of Morena Sergio Báez Torres, President of the Commission of the Interior, warned that, if refers to the holder of the General Prosecutor’s Office rather than be issued its organic law, “would have a figure who would act irregularly, subject to a regulation in the” You must report directly to the Executive and interference by the other powers; the Prosecutor would lose autonomy”.
Fermín Bernabé Bahena, Member of the Justice Committee, said that to be an appointment under the circumstances, the Prosecutor would be without competition did not have a regulatory framework that sustains their powers and specific attributions; “we must be very careful to cancel the possibility that accusations of violations of due process,” said the Deputy of Morena.
Baez towers and Bernabé Bahena, concerned that result from the agreement of conference committees will discuss the possibility of extending deadlines without reforming the transitory articles of the decree in question; i.e. from the clauses of the call extended the stages of the election process to make the appointment of the Prosecutor following the issuing of the organic law of the General Prosecutor’s Office.
Another alternative that analyze the governance committees, and justice, is the preparation of an opinion to reform the third transitory articles and fifth, with the purpose of modifying the time limits.
Morena legislators pointed out that in the Congress of the Union is also developing the organic law of the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office, so the State Congress must harmonize with the federal legislation the legal framework that shall govern to the General Prosecutor’s Office of Michoacan.

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