The Senate calls a public hearing for five key judicial nominations

The Parliamentary Secretariat of the Honorable Senate of the Nation has called for a public hearing on Friday, November 27, 2026, at 10 a.m., for the purpose of addressing five agreement dossiers submitted by the National Executive Power to fill judicial positions. The call was published in the Official Gazette of the Argentine Republic on November 11, 2026, First Section (official reference: 350224), and sets the deadline for submitting questions and observations between November 12 and 18, 2026, inclusive.

The five messages and their files

The agreements were entered with messages 276/26 through 280/26 and are being processed in files PE-308/26 through PE-312/26, according to the official detail:

• File PE-308/26 — Message No. 276/26: agreement to appoint Dr. Gonzalo Luis Gassull as judge of the Federal Court of First Instance No. 1 of San Juan.
• File PE-309/26 — Message No. 277/26: agreement to appoint Dr. Analía Isabel Cascone as official public defender before the courts and the National Court of Appeals in Civil, Commercial and Labor Matters of the Federal Capital, Public Defender’s Office No. 4.
• File PE-310/26 — Message No. 278/26: agreement to appoint Dr. Juan Carlos Vallejos as judge of the Federal Court of First Instance No. 1 of Corrientes.
• File PE-311/26 — Message No. 279/26: agreement to appoint Dr. Laura Bellocqui as chamber judge of the Oral Criminal and Correctional Court No. 22 of the Federal Capital.
• File PE-312/26 — Message No. 280/26: agreement to appoint Dr. Pablo Garciarena as federal prosecutor of the Mendoza Prosecutor’s Unit.

The regulatory framework and the venue of the debate

The call is issued in accordance with Article 22 of the Regulations of the Honorable Senate of the Nation, which enables the submission of questions and observations regarding the qualifications and merits of the applicants. The formal requirements for the admission of these submissions are established in Article 123 quater of the same regulations and in the current regulations published on the Senate’s institutional website, under the “Agreements Commission” item, “Observations Registry” tab.

The public hearing will be held in the Blue Room of the Honorable Senate of the Nation, located at Av. Hipólito Yrigoyen 1849, 1st floor, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. Submissions may be made digitally, through the institutional website, or in person before the Agreements Commission, located at Av. Hipólito Yrigoyen 1702, 6th floor, Office 606, in the same city, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The notice bears the signature of the parliamentary secretary Agustín Wenceslao Giustinian and was published with an entry date of November 6, 2026, and a publication expiration date of November 11, 2026.

An overlapping hearing calendar

The appointment on November 27 is added to another already convened by the same Parliamentary Secretariat: on Wednesday, November 18, 2026, also at 10 a.m. in the Blue Room, the file for Expte. PE-237/26 — Message No. 222/26 will be addressed, which requests agreement to appoint associate judges for the national courts of first instance for labor within the jurisdiction of the National Court of Appeals for Labor of the Federal Capital, specifically Dr. Natalia Beatriz Caviglia. That call set its observation period between November 3 and November 9, 2026.

In this way, the Senate concentrates the processing of six candidacies into two November hearings, with observation deadlines that close before each hearing and using the same digital or in-person submission channel before the Agreements Commission.

Impact

The five files from November 27 directly affect the composition of sensitive federal jurisdictions: two federal courts of first instance in the interior of the country (San Juan and Corrientes), a federal oral tribunal in the Capital, a public defender’s office of the National Civil, Commercial, and Labor Justice, and a federal prosecutor’s office in Mendoza. With the observation period open until November 18, the public hearing will be the step prior to the consideration of the agreements by the Senate and defines the fate of vacancies affecting the justice service in key jurisdictions.

Source: Official Gazette of the Argentine Republic, November 11, 2026, First Section (official reference: 350224).