The Judiciary of one of the best cities in the world can be better

As in the Nation and in many provinces, the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires has its own Judicial Branch and a Council of the Judiciary with extensive powers, which will manage an increasingly larger structure, will administer a Justice that will be in charge of all the non-federal conflicts of Buenos Aires, their contracts, family matters, labor claims, prosecutors and criminal cases.

An enormous responsibility that will affect millions of people and thousands of companies.

Since many people know little about him, let's explain what he does... or should do.

It is made up of 3 representatives of the Legislature, 3 city judges and 3 lawyers, respectively elected by their colleagues.

The Council selects candidates for judges and prosecutors, has disciplinary power over them and can remove them, and even manages the budget of the Buenos Aires Judiciary.

Having started from scratch, when the Constitution was reformed in 1994 and the Autonomous City was born, it could be believed that a brand new Judicial Branch of the City prevented the evils and defects of the national and federal judicial system. It wasn't like that.

Because in fact, the caste also managed to appropriate the Council and in many cases, they have been the same ones that design and predominate throughout the country's judicial system, something that has been confirmed these days, seeing the result of the election to the National Council and how the authorities of the Public Bar Association and the Faculty of Law of the UBA, with greater or lesser disguise, support candidates who are rotating between these institutions, theoretically alien to politics. They are more of the same thing that prevails in an increasingly worse judicial world

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We cannot fake insanity: justice in Argentina has serious problems that have been repeated and aggravated for years.

What can be done in the face of this situation

But we lawyers can do something to improve this situation: go to vote this Tuesday 17th in Corrientes 1441 (CPACF) on list 20 that consists of practicing lawyers: Diego Carbone, Eduardo Gerome, Juan Curutchet, Josefina Tajes, Roxana Kahale and Jorge

Taiah.

Voting is the only way to end the same organized minorities as always, born of the two parties that governed us for decades, that control and rotate between the Public Bar Association, the Council of the Judiciary of the Nation, the Faculty of Law of the UBA and the Council of the Judiciary of the City.

As long as they are always the same, nothing will change, since beyond the individual value of some of them and their intentions and promises, the concrete thing is that in recent decades they have not known, been able or willing to prevent the progressive decline of the judicial system.

For this reason, at La Libertad Avanza, a group of liberal and libertarian lawyers, we believe that it is time for the City Council to be renewed and new colleagues with real experience to enter the profession at the same time.

We will only succeed if our colleagues are going to vote massively, so that the usual caste ceases to dominate this important sector of public power.

What changes are we proposing?

In addition to the expansion of the ideology of freedom in the legal world, after a century of oppressive bureaucracy, we want:

• Competitions with equal opportunities for trial lawyers, to end judicial politicization and for only officials of the Judiciary to stop winning contests and

positions.

• Public control of the performance of judges and prosecutors, with public indicators and limits to the duration of disciplinary proceedings, hitherto tracked for years. Creation of an Observatory for the regulation of professional fees, so that compensation for professional work is fair and balanced

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• Simpler digital procedures, for reasons as obvious as they were forgotten until today.

If we lawyers who work as lawyers and not as eternal bureaucrats, don't deal with it, no one will. And nothing will change

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Let us show that the time of the judicial castes has passed.