Overview
- The Senate Comisión de Acuerdos held public hearings for 14 candidates on Tuesday and is actively processing roughly 70 pliegos from a larger package sent by the executive.
- The Justice Ministry under Juan Bautista Mahiques has sent 203 pliegos and set a goal to fill nearly 300 judicial vacancies that underpin a reported vacancy rate of about 36.5 percent in national and federal courts.
- The Supreme Court, in an acordada signed by Ricardo Lorenzetti and Carlos Rosenkrantz, proposed a reglamento that would use anonymized written tests, standardized criteria, and limits on the weight of the personal interview to curb discretionary scoring.
- Political controversy is sharp: critics point to nominees with partisan ties such as Facundo Cortés Olmedo and Andrés Fraga, and the case of María Virginia Miguel Carmona showed how an interview dropped her 41 points after she led anonymous tests.
- Senate leaders plan floor sessions to confirm many nominees but the kirchnerist bloc's partial boycott and calls from figures like Esteban Bullrich to pause approvals until the Consejo adopts article 92 create uncertainty about timing and the legitimacy of rapid confirmations.