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The Chamber of Deputies unanimously approved the bill eliminating procedural privileges in favor of the civil and judicial authorities including the parliamentarians themselves, thereby meeting the citizens' expectations regarding of equality before the law.
According to the text approved and that was elaborated by the Commission of Constitution, the proposal manages to modify the norms of the Civil Code relating to the declaration of witnesses and the judicial confession thus to remove from the list to a large part of the authorities mentioned who have the opportunity to make a testimonial statement or a confession in a trial, to the address they determine and not in court.
The authorities who have the privilege mentioned above are: senators and deputies; undersecretaries; regional and provincial presidential delegates; mayors, within their jurisdiction and senior managers.
To these are added the members of the Supreme Court or any of the courts of appeal; the judicial prosecutors of these courts; the learned judges; the national prosecutor and the regional prosecutors; general officers on active or retired service, senior officers and chief officers.
Only the President of the Republic and the State Ministers will maintain the current profit.
deputies MPs of the project, now submitted for the consideration of the Senate, point out that in a democratic society the preferential treatment in favor of the public authorities must be limited and only those which are strictly necessary for the exercise of the
It should be recalled that this initiative is complementary to another proposal sent by the Chamber of Deputies last June, which removes these procedural privileges in favor of the ecclesiastical authorities.
This rule removes them for the Archbishop and Bishops, as well as vicars general, outfitters, vicars and priests and priests . Even this measure contemplates the religious and the novices even if they belong to closure orders.
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