Last Monday, the National Review Assembly approved the modifications to 10 articles of the Executive Branch’s proposal on the constitutional reformand the inclusion of 278, among which are 171, which states that the President of the Republic at the beginning of his term will propose to the National Council of the Judiciary one person to be appointed Attorney General of the Republic and seven to be appointed as deputy attorneys, in accordance with the law.
The newspaper Hoy asked the jurist Julio Cury on the subject, and the challenges that would be faced by who would be the new figure of the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic.
The judge considered that the amendment to article 171 raises questions that only time will answer: «Is it appropriate that the Attorney General of the Republic cease to be an official of free appointment and removal? “Would it be better if he became a chosen and immovable official?”.
«I could venture answers to those questions, but only time will tell. The attorney general is a position of trust of the President, or rather, so his appointment regime and, more importantly, his removal regime should not have been modified,” Cury asserted.
The Assembly approved a modification to article 171, submitted by the president of the National Review Assembly, Ricardo de los Santos, which grants a period of 100 days to the President of the Republic, after his swearing-in, to propose to the National Council of the Judiciary a person to be appointed attorney general of the Republic and those who represent half of the Deputy Attorneys, in accordance with the provisions of the law.
In addition, article 179 was approved with modifications, which adds to the functions of the National Council of the Judiciary to appoint the Attorney General of the Republic and the seven deputy attorneys.
Among the proposals of the Executive are, in addition, that the Attorney General of the Republic can only be dismissed by political trialin case of committing serious faults.
The other articles modified by the Assembly are 81, 166, 167, 169, 178, 179, 209, 268, 274, and the transitional provisions included in the modifications, which indicate that the President of the Republic elected on the third Sunday of May of 2024, he will never again be able to run for the same position or for the vice presidency of the Republic.
