Vice President of the Senate Commission for Justice, Cesar Augusto Matias, has vowed that revised legal codes will be passed by Congress before 27 July, when the legislature closes. The 200-year-old codes were rewritten by the Comisionado de Reforma y Modernización de Justicia during the Fernandez administration. They encompass the penal code, criminal code, penal procedures, criminal procedures, civil code, civil procedures, business code, and the statutes of the government prosecutors (ministerio publico). The revised code has stagnated in Congress for more than a year. Jurists say that if the codes were passed, the courts would be freed of congestion since the new codes provide for the expediting of legal procedures. Matías was responding to a complaint made by Supreme Court of Justice President, Jorge Subero Isa, regarding the stagnation of judicial reform.
