Coverage of positions of key federal judges for Vaca Muerta advances

The Council of the Judiciary of the Nation took an important step in filling vacancies in the Federal Court of Appeals of Roca and the Federal Oral Court of Neuquén, two key organizations for both provinces due to the location of Vaca Muertahydrocarbon exploitation, conflicts with native communities and being a border area, among other matters of federal interest. In addition, on Monday the 4th the new Criminal Procedure Code will come into force.

In the 455 contest, to cover a member position in the Federal Court of Appeals of Rocathere was a majority opinion that proposed elevating to the Executive Branch the shortlist headed by the current federal judge of Roca and deputy in Zapala Hugo Horacio Greca, followed by Walter Ezequiel López da Silva, federal judge of Bahía Blanca, and third Luisina Tiscornia, assistant prosecutor of the Federal Oral Court of Neuquén.

The complementary list has the applicants Pablo Matkovic, public defender in Neuquén, and Matías Alejandro Latino.

The minority opinion proposes that the shortlist be made up of Greca; Matkovic and Tiscornia, and the complementary one by López da Silva and Latino. According to Infobae, the representatives of Kirchnerism abstained from the voting.

Mariano Lozano, president of the Federal Court of Appeals of Roca. (Cecilia Maletti)

The Federal Chamber is a powerful body that review what is resolved in the courts of the two provinces and in the future judges colleges to be created by procedural reform. It is currently chaired by Mariano Lorenzo, and the other member is Richar Gallego.

The Federal Oral Court


Pablo Matkovic, federal defender in Neuquén. (Archive)

Regarding the Federal Oral Court of Neuquén, contest 469 It is to fill two vacancies. The opinion of the Council of the Judiciary of the Nation proposes the shortlist composed of Juan Manuel Kees (recently judge of Neuquén Guarantees), Verónica Laura Pérez and Matías Oscar Zanona (acting prosecutor in Roca), and as a second shortlist that composed of Pablo Matkovic; Carolina García (criminal judge of Niño de Neuquén) Jorge García Davini.

The complementary list is made up of Diego Nicolás Rengel and Juan Ignacio Oller.

The only member of the TOF currently is Alejandro Cabral.

On Monday, November 4, when the new federal Criminal Procedure Code comes into effect, there will be a big event at the Domuyo convention center with the presence of the Minister of Justice of the Nation, Mariano Cúneo Libarona, the governors Alberto Weretilneck and Rolando Figueroa, which will probably also be attended by the minister Patricia Bullrich and the president of the Supreme Court Horacio Rosatti, among others.

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