Minister of Justice Mariano Cúneo Libarona referred to the recent confirmation regarding the treatment of the Juvenile Penal Law in Congress and supported the initiative of the National Government. In statements to Radio Rivadavia, he stated that President Javier Milei's administration 'stepped on the accelerator in terms of criminal legislation' and that this project must be debated with urgency, as the current law dates back to 1980 and sets the age of criminal responsibility at 16, 'while in 1978 it was 14.' 'The idea is to separate minors according to their social connotation, their violence, and the crimes they have committed. Today it is a young person who is a product of drugs, violence, a product of multiple factors. The reality is that the young person of 1980 is not the young person of 2026. It is necessary to re-educate and resocialize.'
