Justice and Human Rights Minister Julio Alak responded to the Supreme Court’s resolution urging the government to fight drug-trafficking in Argentina’s Northern provinces. In reply, Alak urged the Council of Magistrates to appoint judicial officials in posts that remain vacant in order to meet the Court’s expectations.
“The Executive power is doing an intense job in the fight against drug-trafficking. We are surprised that a sector of the Judicial power accuses the Executive for the lack of positions,” Alak stated as he explained that out of the 36 judicial positions that remain vacant in the Northern region of the country 16 have not yet been covered. “50 percent of the jobs are not convered because of the Council of Magistrates where the government is a minority”.
It was then when the official took the opportunity to recall the recent dispute between the Cristina Fernández de Kirchner administration and Argentina’s maximum tribunal over the government-sponsored justice democratization project that involved the reform of the Council, a project the Supreme Court ruled out.
“The number of drug-trafficking cases and detainees has duplicated or triplicate, it is the crime that generates more money at global levels. We are greatly worried, (the fight against drug-trafficking) is in the government’s central agenda,” Alak affirmed in statements to a local TV news channel and renewed his demands to the Judicial branch for “more judges to be appointed.»
Source: Buenos Aires Herald