Former Vice President Germán Vargas Lleras presented his main proposals to the Government to reform justice. He takes teeth from the Cortes in the election of the registrar, auditor and magistrates of the Constitutional Court, and proposes restructuring the Inpec.
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Former Vice President Germán Vargas Lleras completed his task and sent the national government his proposal to reform justice in Colombia, as had been agreed by all the members of the commission of experts and wise men who met last January to try to agree on a bill that is agreed upon and that manages to pass in Congress.
The ‘rolling’
At the outset, Vargas Lleras made a crude x-ray of the current situation of justice and, subsequently, presented his proposals. One of them seeks decongestion and access to the administration of justice. “Decongest and improve access to justice through an intensive plan to reduce the time of judicial processes that today take an average of 1,288 days to just one year,” said Vargas Lleras.
Germán Vargas also refers to the efficiency of fiscal control and once again insists on his initiative to create a central and integrated system on fiscal control, eliminating regional comptrollers and thus saving the country 50 billion pesos annually, as expressed in his proposal.
In the document he dedicated a special chapter to citizen security and transformation of the penitentiary and prison regime. The purpose is the effective judicialization of the reduction of impunity, the strengthening of the Police, strategies between companies, citizens, departmental and municipal authorities to improve coexistence and fight against crime.
Likewise, he proposed the elimination of the Attorney General’s Office, an initiative that, without a doubt, supports President Gustavo Petro.
“It is necessary to think about strengthening the Judicial Branch with the capabilities and expertise of the officials of the Attorney General’s Office, which, unfortunately, lost powers to investigate authorized persons (congressmen, governors, mayors), that is, its existence became innocuous, considering, Furthermore, the fact that many elements of disciplinary law are subsumed in criminal law, leads to the entity being eliminated and the Judicial Branch being strengthened in capacity.” argument.
In the document, the former vice president also proposes reforms of the criminal procedure, including the elimination of the formulation of charges and the intermediate phase of the procedure and ending the adjournment system.
