Following, the main points from the initiative that was turned over to Deputies:
• The Judicial Council will be made up of 17 members: four judges; six national legislators (three for each House: two for the majority and one for the minority); four representatives of the lawyers; a representative of the Executive Power; and two from academic fields. In each estate, gender proportionality will be respected.
• For the election of advisors to the magistracy representing judges and lawyers, the lists must be made up of one member from each region and their respective alternate. For this purpose, the following federal regions are established: AMBA, North, Center and South.
• The Council will meet in ordinary and public plenary sessions, with the regularity established by its internal regulations or when its president decides to call it, the vice-president or the vice-president in the absence of the president or at the request of nine of its members.
• The Council will be divided into five commissions: Selection of Magistrates or Magistrates and Judicial School; Administration and Finance; Regulation; and Federal Affairs, composed exclusively of Senators of the Nation.
• The members of the Council of the Judiciary will take an oath to duly carry out their duties before the president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation. For each titular member, an alternate will be elected by the same procedure for replacement in case of resignation, removal or death. When the D’Hont system is used, the replacement must meet the minimum number of women established by this law in each case.
• Article 3 is modified, maintaining the term of office at 4 years. In the previous wording it was established that they are eligible for re-election with an interval of one period, and now it is established that they are eligible for re-election only once consecutively.
• Art. 4 and are established as requirements to be a member and meet the conditions required to be a senator of the Nation.
• Its members may not record criminal convictions for intentional crimes issued in the last 20 years, or have held a hierarchical public position or function during the last civic-military dictatorship, or verify ethical conditions opposed to respect for human rights. In the case of lawyers, it will be required to have active enrollment in a professional association, unless it is exempted by their jurisdiction.
• It is also established that it is not necessary to be a lawyer to join the Judicial Council.
• Art. 9th relative to the quorum and decisions, lowering from 10 to 9 members to obtain a quorum for sessions.
• Art. 12 relative to the commissions, their meetings and authorities. The way in which they will be integrated is modified and gender parity is ensured.
• The art. 22 regarding the integration of the Trial Jury to ensure gender parity. The composition of 2 Chamber judges is maintained. Instead of 4 legislators (2 for each Chamber), 3 senators will now be required and, instead of 1 lawyer, 2.
• Art. 24 that deals with the removal of the members of the Jury of Judgment. A paragraph that provided “An equal majority may recommend the removal of the representatives of Congress, to each of the Chambers, as appropriate. In none of these procedures, the accused may vote.”
• It is established as a transitory clause that the integration of the Council of the Judiciary and its commissions and the Jury for the Prosecution of Magistrates provided for in this law will become effective when the mandates of the current directors and directors end.
