The Senate debates 33 judicial nominations in November public hearings

The Parliamentary Secretariat of the Honorable Senate of the Nation has called for public hearings on Tuesday, November 17, 2026, starting at 2:00 p.m., and Wednesday, November 18, starting at 10:00 a.m., to address messages from the National Executive Branch requesting agreement for the appointment of judges, associate judges, public defenders, and prosecutors. The call covers 33 files and 62 candidates, with 21 positions in courts of the Federal Capital and 12 in federal jurisdictions in the interior of the country. Official notice 80545/26 was published in the Official Gazette of the Argentine Republic on October 29, 2026, in the First Section, and bears the signature of Agustín Wenceslao Giustinian, parliamentary secretary.

The process is governed by the Regulations of the H. Senate of the Nation: Article 22 enables the submission of questions and observations regarding the qualifications and merits of the candidates, while Article 123 quater establishes the formal requirements for the admission of such submissions. The nomination files are submitted by the Executive through individual messages, each identified by its file and message number, and are subject to the agreement of the upper House.

Tuesday 17: twenty files for the courts of the Capital

The first day concentrates twenty files, nineteen of which are destined for courts and chambers based in the Federal Capital. Among the positions, the following stand out:

• PE-220/26, message 209/26: Leonardo Marco Toia, judge of the National Court of First Instance in Federal Administrative Litigation No. 7.
• PE-236/26, message 221/26: nine associate judges of the Oral Criminal and Correctional Courts of the Federal Capital — Martín José Adrogue, Sofía Chiambretto, Guido Damián Cresta, Lucía Inés Gallagher Campos, David Gabriel Mangiafico, Federico Martín Mercader, Horacio Alfredo Peix, Paula Vanesa Romeo and Andrea Paola Santos.
• PE-248/26, PE-263/26 and PE-283/26: Carolina Morales Deganut (Public Defender’s Office for Minors and Incapacitated Persons No. 3), María Lucrecia Sammartino (Official Public Defender’s Office No. 12) and Natalia Eda Bonino (Public Defender’s Office No. 2).
• PE-264/26: Romina Soledad Paraboni, auxiliary defender of the General Defender’s Office of the Nation.
• PE-265/26, PE-266/26, PE-277/26, PE-278/26, PE-279/26 and PE-302/26: members and appellate judges for the Economic Criminal Oral Court No. 2 and for the Oral Criminal and Correctional Courts No. 5, 10, 26 and 30.
• PE-267/26 and PE-268/26: Valeria Alicia Bertolini and María de los Ángeles Sapin, for the Federal Courts of First Instance for Social Security No. 6 and No. 8.
• PE-286/26 and PE-303/26: Matías Sebastián Moreno Espeja (Chamber IX) and Rosalía Romero (Chamber VIII) in the National Court of Appeals for Labor.
• PE-291/26, PE-300/26 and PE-301/26: Sofía Inés Hernández Saint Jean and Camilo Jorge Almeida Pons (Chamber III) and Alejandro Jorge Nobili (Chamber II) in the National Court of Appeals for Federal Civil and Commercial Matters.
• PE-282/26: Luciano Cruz Savignano, judge of the Federal Court of First Instance No. 1 of San Nicolás, province of Buenos Aires, the only destination of the day outside the Capital.

Wednesday 18: labor associate judges and federal positions in the interior

The second session adds thirteen files. Two of them are collective and correspond to associate judges of the national labor courts of first instance within the jurisdiction of the National Court of Appeals for Labor: PE-237/26, with eight applicants, and PE-293/26, with fifteen.

• PE-237/26: Mariano Gastón Piacenti, Alejandra García, Roberto Oscar Copertari, Osvaldo Javier de Ugarte, Alberto César Vega, Ignacio Hermida, Christian Gabriel Aparicio and Pablo Alberto Gasquet.
• PE-293/26: Norma Alejandra Benítez, María Virginia Chedrese, María Victoria Cosentino, Alejandro Esteban Danussi, Gabriela Andrea Donadio, María Ximena Fernández Barone, Mirna Lorena Martínez, Juan Martín Segura, Luciano Vidal Mauriz, Lucas Hernán Palla, María Roxana Henríques, Federico Pablo Agüero Urquiza, Fernando Guzmán, Silvia Rita García and Héctor David Rodríguez.

The remaining eleven files cover federal positions outside the Capital:

• PE-260/26: Lucas Alberto Colla, federal prosecutor of the decentralized fiscal office of Caleta Olivia (Santa Cruz).
• PE-262/26, PE-269/26, PE-284/26, PE-288/26 and PE-304/26: federal criminal judges of guarantees in San Lorenzo, Rosario, Santa Fe, Venado Tuerto and Rafaela (Santa Fe).
• PE-287/26 and PE-290/26: Juan Mateo Dijou and Juan Manuel Kees, judges of the federal trial courts of Resistencia (Chaco) and Neuquén.
• PE-285/26 and PE-292/26: Berenice Olmedo (Córdoba) and María Julieta Ibáñez Arrieta (La Rioja), public defenders for victims.
• PE-289/26: Federico Miguel Baquioni, attorney general of the San Luis Fiscal Unit.

Citizen observations and venue for hearings

The hearings will be held in the Blue Room of the Honorable Senate of the Nation, at Av. Hipólito Yrigoyen 1849, 1st floor, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. Questions and observations regarding the qualifications and merits of the applicants may be submitted from November 3 to 9, 2026, inclusive, digitally via the institutional website or in person before the Agreements Commission, at Av. Hipólito Yrigoyen 1702, 6th floor, Office 606, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The call defines the composition of courts and chambers that will intervene in administrative, labor, economic criminal, and social security cases, therefore its resolution directly impacts the processing times faced by litigants and legal subjects in the Capital and in six interior provinces.

Source: Official Gazette of the Argentine Republic, First Section, October 29, 2026 (official reference: notice 80545/26; files PE-220/26 to PE-304/26).