In a statement released this afternoon, the legislators Silvia Lospennato, Belén Avico, María Ángel Sotolano, Silvana Giudici and Sofia Brambilla, members of the Women and Diversity Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, expressed their “deep concern in response to statements made by the Minister of Justice, Mariano Cúneo Libarona, in his speech on August 27.”
In this sense, the deputies of the party led by the former president Mauricio Macri They assured that the lawyer’s words are “in Open opposition to the regulations in force in our country regarding violence and gender identity” and they stressed that, since the National Constitution, the Argentine State “assumed the defense of women victims of violence and the expansion of rights in its articles 16, 43, 75 inc. 22, 23.”
PRO deputies against Mariano Cúneo Libarona on sexual identity laws: “It is their inescapable obligation to ensure their compliance”
In addition, they argued their questioning towards the Minister based on the fact that Argentina is subscribed to the Universal Declaration of Human Rightsto the American Convention on Human Rights already the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
“Also the National Congress Over the years, it has enacted laws such as Law 23592 Against Discriminatory Acts, Law 25087 Crimes against Sexual Integrity, Law 26485 Comprehensive Protection of Women; Law 26743 Gender Identity, Law 26791 Femicide, Law 27039 Line 144, Law 27363 Removal of Parental Responsibility from Femicides, to mention just a few of them,” the deputies continued.
For this reason they clarified to Cúneo Libarona that “In a State of Law, the impartial application of the rules is guaranteed”“That is why we affirm that the highest authority of the Ministry of Justice cannot ignore the current regulations since it is his unavoidable obligation to ensure their compliance regardless of his personal preferences,” they concluded.
The Government defended Mariano Cúneo Libarona after his controversial words
At his usual press conference, the presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni He stressed: “We are against gender policies and everything that has been the defense of certain groups have certain businesses behind them that do not help anyone’s defenseneither of women, nor of men, nor of those who are not.”
In line with that, he added: “That is what I understand the minister meant. I don’t know why you are asking me to resign, when we preach freedom of choice in all areas. We are liberals”.
When one of the accredited journalists pointed out that the minister did not make any reference to this and quoted Cúneo Libarona’s statements verbatim, Adorni cut himself short: “Ask him for the details of what he meant from a grammatical point of view”.
Source: Ambito
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