Paraguay
Chamber of Deputies committee backs bill to create a Public Defender’s Office in Mariano Roque Alonso
The initiative received a favorable report in the Chamber of Deputies’ Budget Committee. According to the sponsors, it seeks to improve access to public defense and ease the burden on other regional offices.
The Budget Committee of the Chamber of Deputies issued a favorable report this Tuesday on the bill proposing the creation of a Public Defender’s Office in Mariano Roque Alonso, according to La Nación Paraguay.
According to the grounds cited by the outlet, the installation of an office in that district would improve the territorial distribution of public defense services, reduce the overload on other regional offices and strengthen effective judicial protection for the most vulnerable sectors.
The document cited by La Nación Paraguay also states that the measure would strengthen the State’s institutional presence in one of the fastest-growing cities in the Central Department, with closer, more efficient and more accessible service for the public.
At the same meeting, the committee also issued a favorable report, with formal amendments, on a bill that modifies and expands Article 14 of Law No. 635/95, the regulatory law for Electoral Justice, to create the Electoral Court of the Judicial Circumscription of the Department of Caazapá.
It also recommended accepting the Executive Branch’s total veto of a bill that modifies Article 9 of the National School Feeding Fund law. That initiative proposed that the Ministry of Social Development also take over the administration of school meals in Concepción and Alto Paraná, a task that until now has been handled by their respective governorates.
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