The List 33 of the Professional Union headed by Ignacio Segura achieved re-election this week to lead the Córdoba Bar Association, which will allow them to occupy all the spaces of the institution. The final result was: 2,252 votes for the list headed by Segura (45% of the total votes), followed by that of Mariano Albrisi, with 1,231 votes (24.6%) in third place was Santiago Morra, with 1,135 votes (23.2%) and Luis Pareja was in fourth place with 362 votes (7.1%).
One of the significant data of the election lies in the plurality of those who make up the list in the Professional Union, since llaryorists coexist with lawyers related to the PRO and radicals from the different internal lines. Segura himself mentions Alejandro Tejerina, Julio Ochoa, Marcelo Bee Sellares, Juan Manuel Cid and Oscar Agost Carreño, to name a few, among the main people responsible for putting together the list. “We have overcome the crack because we left party politics outside the doors. Inside, we all have a common goal, which is to defend our professional role,” Segura tells PROFIL CÓRDOBA.
In addition, the re-elected president of the Bar Association assures that “we also understand that politics cannot be a bad word, it cannot be reviled. A sector of the opposition attacked us throughout the campaign saying that our management had handed over the College to politics and it is unfortunate that colleagues, men and women of the Law, are heard reviling political activity”.
And he added: “We understand that politics is a tool for social transformation, of reality and that without politics it is very difficult to transform it. By getting involved and participating we are going to achieve that transformation, not by questioning it, denying it and rejecting it. Our country has suffered a lot to achieve that today we have democracy and political participation, that is why it hurts that political activity is reviled and that we are attacked because we can have political participation outside the Bar Association.”
In this sense, Segura reaffirms the role of the entity he leads: “The Bar Association is a political institution and denying it is lying to colleagues; The more political relations the Association can have with the different institutions and levels of the municipal, provincial and national state, the more solutions we will achieve in pursuit of the defense of lawyers. If we have a closed Association in itself, we will not be able to respond to the needs of professional practice with the standards that today demands according to the requirements and all the complexity that professional practice has as a consequence of the paradigm shift in the way of exercising advocacy”.
-How are you going to reconcile the opposing ideas that arise in party politics, within the institution?
-That is achieved with commitment and understanding what the real objective is. We put aside our partisan differences in pursuit of the defense of professional practice, we are all lawyers committed to defending the professional role: it is one of the great virtues of this space and we hope that this idea transcends my management and continues this same line.
-Bringing together important figures from different parties in Córdoba, did it lead you to think about entering political activity?
-We had the virtue of gathering these names in the association, since the political issue is something that exceeds me and I have no participation there. I have been a trial lawyer all my life, like my grandparents, my parents, my wife and my siblings: we are all trial lawyers, we live from the profession and it was my lot, with great honor and pride, to be president of the Bar Association and to be re-elected, but I have no party political activity. I always dedicated myself to college and the profession, that is a question that I cannot answer, it does not correspond to me.
Achievements and what’s to come. Segura emphasizes the achievements he achieved with the administration he headed for three years. “The Córdoba Bar Association has had a very active participation in the entire sphere of Córdoba society, we have greatly promoted it. The College has interacted with different sectors of society, with government standards, both municipal, provincial and national, as well as with the university spheres, and we have taken clear public positions regarding agenda items,” says the professional, adding that “we propose it in 2019 when we said that we did not want a School on pause, in silence, stopped: we want to be active, dynamic, participatory and open the doors to colleagues”.
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