Kicillof described the discussion on the Juvenile Criminal Regime as "marketing" and again avoided giving definitions

The Buenos Aires governor Axel Kicillof escaped once again from the cameras and avoided taking a concrete position on the new Juvenile Criminal Regime and described the discussion about crime committed by minors as “marketing,” during an interview granted to C5N.

When asked about the debate, the governor stated that these are “marketing discussions” that, he claimed, are raised “without solving the problems” and “without seeking the realities.”

“They are marketing discussions, without solving the problems, without seeking the realities. That’s why I believe that yes, there are many discussions that need to be had with much greater depth and they need to be in favor of real issues,” Kicillof expressed. However, the Kirchnerist governor did not specify what the State's response should be to crimes committed by adolescents nor did he develop a concrete alternative to the new regime during his response.

The statement comes amid the dispute over the implementation of the new Juvenile Criminal Regime, which reduced the age of criminal responsibility from 16 to 14 years. In the province of Buenos Aires, Judge Marta Elba Pascual even suspended its application for 60 days and, as revealed by Eduardo Feinmann, she would have privately acknowledged that she acted at the request of Kicillof and Peronist leader Mariano Cascallares.