\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t The Milei government has added a bill to lower the age of criminal responsibility to the agenda for the extraordinary sessions that will begin on February 2.<\/p>\n
A decree published on Tuesday in Argentina\u2019s Official Gazette expanded the Congressional agenda and revived the debate on a new Juvenile Criminal Code.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The bill proposes reducing the age of criminal responsibility from 16 to 14 years of age.<\/p>\n
The government has introduced the proposal in the past. In 2025, a congressional committee agreed on a final draft of the bill, but it was not debated on the house floor because it failed to garner parliamentary support.<\/p>\n
However, with a strengthened Congress after the ruling party\u2019s landslide victory in the legislative elections in October, La Libertad Avanza (LLA) will now insist on the proposal.<\/p>\n
\u201cLowering the age of criminal responsibility can\u2019t wait any longer,\u201d Gabriel Bornoroni, the head of the LLA Deputies bloc, wrote on X.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast year, we were unable to move forward with its passage due to Kirchnerism and its well-mannered allies. It\u2019s time to settle that debt. Good Argentinians demand that this reform be approved,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
LA BAJA DE EDAD DE IMPUTABILIDAD NO PUEDE ESPERAR M\u00c1S.<\/p>\n
El Presidente @JMilei sumar\u00e1 la Ley Penal Juvenil al temario de las sesiones extraordinarias. El a\u00f1o pasado no logramos avanzar con la sanci\u00f3n por culpa del kirchnerismo y sus aliados de buenos modales.<\/p>\n
Es hora de saldar\u2026<\/p>\n
\u2014 Gabriel Bornoroni (@BornoroniG) January 26, 2026 If the law is approved, 14-year-olds who commit serious crimes could be held accountable like an adult. However, minors would serve their custodial sentences in special institutions separated from adults, where staff would have to be trained to deal with adolescents.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They would also receive education, medical care and substance abuse treatments.<\/p>\n
Critics say children should not be treated as adults and claim lowering the age of criminal responsibility will not lower the crime rate, and will only worsen the problem of prison overcrowding.<\/p>\n
Three killings The decision to relaunch the proposal \u2014 which will be debated in extraordinary sessions along with other controversial bills such as the labor reform, the changes to the Glaciers Law, and the Mercosur-European Union agreement \u2014 comes as a spate of crimes has intensified the public debate on the Juvenile Criminal Law.<\/p>\n
Since the beginning of the year, three brutal crimes apparently perpetrated by minors have shocked Argentines.<\/p>\n
The killings of 21-year-old Joaqu\u00edn Ibarra, 12-year-old Uriel Gim\u00e9nez, and 15 year-old Jerem\u00edas Monz\u00f3n in separate incidents\u00a0 \u2014 which involved two boys aged 14 and 15 \u2014 have brought the debate back into the public eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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