Ministerio de Justicia | |
Headquarters of the Ministry of Justice | |
Ministry overview | |
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Formed | 1949 |
Jurisdiction | Government of Argentina |
Headquarters | Sarmiento 329, Buenos Aires |
Annual budget | $ 32,087,882,671 (2021) [1] |
Minister responsible | |
Website | argentina.gob.ar/justicia |
Argentinaportal |
The Ministry of Justice [2] (Spanish : Ministerio de Justicia; MJ) of Argentina is a ministry of the national executive power tasked with enforcing of the law and administration of justice.
The ministry was created in 1949, during the first presidency of Juan Domingo Perón, and has been consistently present in every presidential cabinet since then. The incumbent minister is Mariano Cúneo Libarona, who has served since 10 December 2023 in the cabinet of Javier Milei.
The Ministry of Justice has a number of centralized dependencies reporting to it. The centralized dependencies, as in other government ministers, are known as secretariats (secretarías) and undersecretariats (subsecretarías); there are currently four of these: [3] [4]
In addition, the National Institute Against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism (INADI), the Office of the General Notary of the Government of the Nation, the Procuratorship of the Treasure of the Nation, the International Centre for the Promotion of Human Rights (CIPDH), the University Institute of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo (IUNMA) and Argentina's federal prison system all depend on the Ministry of Justice. [3]
No. | Minister | Party | Term | Presidente | ||
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Ministry of Justice (1949–1954) | ||||||
1 | Belisario Gache Pirán | Peronist Party | 11 March 1949 – 4 June 1952 | Juan Domingo Perón | ||
2 | Natalio Carvajal Palacios | Peronist Party | 4 June 1952 – 24 July 1954 | |||
Ministry of the Interior and Justice (1954–1955) | ||||||
3 | Ángel Borlenghi | Peronist Party | 24 July 1954 – 24 July 1955 | Juan Domingo Perón | ||
4 | Oscar Albrieu | Peronist Party | 24 July 1955 – 16 September 1955 | |||
5 | Eduardo Busso | Independent | 23 September 1955 – 12 November 1955 | Eduardo Lonardi | ||
Ministry of Justice (1955–1956) | ||||||
6 | Julio Velar de Irigoyen | Independent | 12 November 1955 – 13 November 1955 | Eduardo Lonardi | ||
7 | Laureano Landaburu | Independent | 13 November 1955 – 8 June 1956 | Pedro Eugenio Aramburu | ||
Ministry of Education and Justice (1956–1966) | ||||||
8 | Carlos Adrogué | Radical Civic Union | 8 June 1956 – 25 January 1957 | Pedro Eugenio Aramburu | ||
9 | Acdel Ernesto Salas | Independent | 25 January 1957 – 1 May 1958 | |||
10 | Luis Rafael Mac Kay | Radical Civic Union | 1 May 1958 – 26 March 1962 | Arturo Frondizi | ||
11 | Miguel Sussini | Intransigent Radical Civic Union | 26 March 1962 – 29 March 1962 | |||
29 March 1962 – 19 October 1962 | José María Guido | |||||
12 | Alberto Rodríguez Galán | Independent | 11 October 1962 – 15 May 1963 | |||
13 | José Mariano Astigueta | Independent | 15 May 1963 – 12 October 1963 | |||
14 | Carlos Alconada Aramburú | Radical Civic Union | 12 October 1963 – 28 June 1966 | Arturo Illia | ||
Ministry of Justice (1956–1966) | ||||||
14 | Carlos Alconada Aramburú | Radical Civic Union | 28 June 1966 – 23 October 1969 | Juan Carlos Onganía | ||
15 | Conrado Etchebarne | Independent | 23 October 1969 – 8 June 1970 | |||
16 | Jaime Perriaux | Independent | 18 June 1970 – 22 March 1971 | Roberto Levingston | ||
22 March 1971 – 11 October 1971 | Alejandro Lanusse | |||||
17 | Ismael Bruno Quijano | Radical Civic Union | 11 October 1971 – 11 July 1972 | |||
18 | Gervasio Colombres | Independent | 11 July 1972 – 25 May 1973 | |||
19 | Antonio J. Benítez | Justicialist Party | 25 May 1973 – 13 July 1973 | Héctor José Cámpora | ||
13 July 1973 – 12 October 1973 | Raúl Lastiri | |||||
12 October 1973 – 1 July 1974 | Juan Domingo Perón | |||||
1 July 1974 – 10 June 1975 | Isabel Perón | |||||
20 | Ernesto Corvalán Nanclares | Justicialist Party | 10 June 1975 – 14 January 1976 | |||
21 | José Deheza | Justicialist Party | 15 January 1976 – 12 March 1976 | |||
22 | Augusto Pedro Saffores | Justicialist Party | 12 March 1976 – 23 March 1976 | |||
23 | Julio Arnaldo Gómez | Independent (Military) | 29 March 1976 – 30 October 1978 | Jorge Rafael Videla | ||
24 | Alberto Rodríguez Varela | Independent | 5 November 1978 – 29 March 1981 | |||
25 | Amadeo Frúgoli | Independent | 29 March 1981 – 12 December 1981 | Roberto Viola | ||
26 | Lucas Jaime Lennon | Independent | 22 December 1981 – 18 June 1982 | Leopoldo Galtieri | ||
18 June 1982 – 10 December 1983 | Reynaldo Bignone | |||||
Ministry of Education and Justice (1983–1989) | ||||||
27 | Carlos Alconada Aramburú | Radical Civic Union | 10 December 1983 – 21 June 1986 | Raúl Alfonsín | ||
28 | Julio Rajneri | Independent | 21 June 1986 – 10 September 1987 | |||
29 | Jorge Federico Sabato | Radical Civic Union | 10 September 1987 – 26 May 1989 | |||
30 | José Gabriel Dumón | Radical Civic Union | 26 May 1989 – 8 July 1989 | |||
Ministry of Justice, Security and Human Rights (1989–1999) | ||||||
31 | León Arslanián | Independent | 8 July 1989 – 16 January 1992 | Carlos Menem | ||
32 | Jorge Luis Maiorano | Justicialist Party | 16 January 1992 – 16 June 1994 | |||
33 | Rodolfo Barra | Justicialist Party | 16 June 1994 – 10 July 1996 | |||
34 | Elías Jassán | Independent | 10 July 1996 – 25 June 1997 | |||
35 | Raúl Granillo Ocampo | Justicialist Party | 25 June 1997 – 10 December 1999 | |||
Ministry of Justice and Human Rights (1989–1999) | ||||||
36 | Ricardo Gil Lavedra | Radical Civic Union | 10 December 1999 – 6 October 2000 | Fernando de la Rúa | ||
37 | Jorge de la Rúa | Radical Civic Union | 6 October 2000 – 21 December 2001 | |||
Ministry of Justice, Security and Human Rights (1999–2010) | ||||||
39 | Jorge Vanossi | Radical Civic Union | 3 January 2002 – 3 July 2002 | Eduardo Duhalde | ||
40 | Juan José Álvarez | Justicialist Party | 10 July 2002 – 25 May 2003 | |||
41 | Gustavo Béliz | New Leadership | 25 May 2003 – 25 July 2004 | Néstor Kirchner | ||
42 | Horacio Rosatti | Justicialist Party | 25 July 2004 – 26 July 2005 | |||
43 | Alberto Iribarne | Justicialist Party | 26 July 2005 – 10 December 2007 | |||
44 | Aníbal Fernández | Justicialist Party | 10 December 2007 – 8 July 2009 | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner | ||
45 | Julio Alak | Justicialist Party | 8 July 2009 – 10 December 2010 | |||
Ministry of Justice and Human Rights (2010–2023) [5] | ||||||
45 | Julio Alak | Justicialist Party | 10 December 2010 – 10 December 2015 | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner | ||
46 | Germán Garavano | Independent | 10 December 2015 – 10 December 2019 | Mauricio Macri | ||
47 | Marcela Losardo | Independent | 10 December 2019 – 18 March 2021 | Alberto Fernández | ||
48 | Martín Soria | Justicialist Party | 29 March 2021 – 10 December 2023 | |||
Ministry of Justice (2023-Present) | ||||||
49 | Mariano Cúneo Libarona | Independent | 10 December 2023 – Present | Javier Milei |
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