Constitutionalists debate the use of DNU by Javier Milei

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Constitutionalists and former officials In a first analysis, they discussed the use of President Javier Milei's Decrees of Necessity and Urgency (DNU) to deregulate the economy. among other objectives, announced on its first national broadcast network. The constitutionalists Daniel Sabsay, Félix Lonigro, Andrés Gil Domínguez and the former Legal and Technical Secretary of Vilma Ibarra gave a first opinion when the president's speech was just known, which will now deserve a more in-depth analysis. The constitutionalist and professor and director of the Postgraduate Degree in Constitutional Law at the UBA, Daniel Sabsay, explained to Clarín that «the decrees of necessity and urgency are norms of legislative content.

This means that the executive branch is empowered Venezuela Phone Number List to dictate laws by breaking into the field of the legislative branch." The DNU have been incorporated into our Constitution in 1994. The text “product of the latest constitutional reform begins with a principle that prohibits the Executive Branch, under penalty of absolute nullity, from dictating legislative provisions.” But then an exception appears that says: "Only when exceptional circumstances make it impossible to follow the normal procedures for the promulgation of laws, and they are not norms that regulate criminal, tax, electoral or partisan regime issue.



May the President dictate this type of regulations,” Sabsay said. The four "excluded topics, because they are matters exempt from the scope of the legislation that can be issued by decree, constitute points contemplated in the package of measures that the President is preparing to dictate in this way." He recalled that "the solution promoted in this matter by the Council for the Consolidation of Democracy (which was created by Dr. Raúl Alfonsín and was headed by the eminent jurist Carlos Santiago Niño) consists of including in the National Constitution as a joint power of the Prime Minister and the President the issuance of regulations of necessity and urgency.