Federal Judge Daniel Rafecas, proposed by President Alberto Fernández as the nation’s new attorney general, said today that he will not take office if the majority required to elect him is changed. In this way Rafecas sat his position – through an Instagram post – as officialism is pressing to discuss the project in the Chamber of Deputies, where he encounters the resistance of Together for Change.
“Since I was not called to give my opinion on its content, nor by those who pushed it in the Senate, nor in the hearings in Deputies, nor by the Minister of Justice, I want to leave my position publicly based,” Rafecas said. His application was announced by Alberto Fernández on December 17, 2019, just a week after taking office, but then the government advanced with a project to lower the management of the Solicitor to five years and reform the necessary majority.
“It is imperative that the attorney general of the nation have sufficient political consensus to hold such an institutionally important office, to deal with the Supreme Court, and to face structural reforms at the federal level,” he said. Rafecas had already breast-conditioned to hold this position when the project began to be discussed in the Senate, where the president is Cristina Kirchner and her main champions the drivers.
Daniel Rafecas is not just a federal judge, he is an internationally recognized jurist and an eminence of law, so from the Executive Branch we will propose to Congress that he be the new Attorney General of the Nation. I trust your independence and ability to do that. pic.twitter.com/jzDTB8fKWB — Alberto Fernández (@alferdez)
December 18, 2019
“That consensus is just at stake in the public hearing, which all previous candidates agreed to (with different luck), and which was not met in my case. If that senate hearing had been finalized, I’m sure that consensus had been reached,” Rafecas added, over modifying the majority needed to nombar it, which would go from two-thirds to a simple majority, the judge defined it as “an insurmountable ethical limit.”
“I respect other positions, but this is my conviction, ethics and legal,” concluded Rafecas, who accompanied the publication with the photo that was taken with Alberto Fernández in 2019.
