Overview

• Presenting the plan at Ezeiza prison, the government said it will send the new code to Congress but did not specify when the bill will enter the legislative docket.
• The draft raises penalties across a wide range of crimes, tightens or removes parole and transitory leaves to enforce prison time, and mandates the accusatory system to speed trials.
• The project makes several serious offenses imprescriptible, including aggravated homicide, sexual crimes, trafficking of persons, terrorism, narcotics offenses, and attacks on the constitutional order.
• It adds modern offenses such as stealthing, revenge porn, grooming and AI‑related abuse, virtual kidnapping, targeted street robberies by 'motochorros', and expands tools on corruption and property usurpation with immediate restitution.
• The government says it will lower the age of criminal imputability to 13, though prior congressional discussions referenced 14, and prospects for approval are uncertain given human‑rights objections and weak officialist numbers in the Senate.