President Javier Milei has officially expanded the agenda of the extraordinary sessions of the National Congress to enable the debate on lowering the age of criminal responsibility. This decision provides a legal framework for his political announcement made earlier to his supporters, where he stated: 'In Argentina, the one who commits the crime pays the price; adult crime, adult punishment.' The bill to be sent by the Executive branch, driven by the Security and Justice ministries, seeks to amend the current regime in effect since the military dictatorship, by lowering the age of criminal liability (currently set at 16) to allow minors who commit serious crimes to be tried and convicted. This initiative fulfills the promise the president made last night during his event in Mar del Plata.
