Javier Milei government wants to eliminate a figure of femicide from the Argentine Penal Code

The strong discourse against feminism that the president of Argentina, made this week in World Economic ForumIn Davos, Switzerland, it should not be alone in rhetoric. The country’s Minister of Justice, Mariano Cunnea Lebarona, confirmed that the current government will even seek to eliminate the figure of femicide from the Argentine Penal Code.

“This administration defends equality before the law enshrined in our national constitution. No life is worth more than more, ”he said to local means of communication.

In the discourse in which he emphasized that radical feminism is a distortion of the concept of equality, Milei had already made clear his desire to change the legislation. “We have to normalize that in many supposedly civilized countries, if someone kills women, this is called femicide. And that causes a more serious feather than if someone kills a man just because of the victim’s sex, ”he said in Davos.

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Libarona said that for years “they used women to fill their pockets and undermine men. Regardless of our sex, we are all equal to the law and deserve the same protection and respect. ”

Milei also criticized the fact that a woman’s life is worth more than a man’s, raising the flag of wage disparity between men and women. “When you look at the data, it is evident that there is no inequality for the same task, but that most men tend to have better -paid professions than most women.”

To the newspaper Financial scopeLibarona said the idea is to “punish violence against everyone with energy” and “protect the family.”

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But other voices warned of the implications and consequences of the measure. The researcher and a specialist in Criminal and Gender Law at the University of Palermo (UP), Agustina Rodríguez, said that this type of modification would “imply the violation of the international commitments that our country has assumed by signing different conventions that aim to show the seriousness of killing one woman in a context of structural discrimination ”.

In turn, the Observatory’s director-general now that they see us, Raquel Vivanco said that “femicides are the most extreme expression of sexist violence” and describes the figure as “a political term” installed “to name the murders committed against women because of their gender condition ”.

For experts, it will not be easy to eliminate this aggravating circumstance of the Penal Code because there is no correlation of necessary forces within Congress.

The PhD in Philosophy and Professor Diana Maffia, current director of the Gender Observatory in the Council of the Judiciary of Buenos Aires, said that the measure of justice is a “bravata”, since this modification does not depend on the executive branch – to the which justice responds – but of the legislature and that must be done by Congress.

Also according to the researcher the inclusion of the figure of femicide in the code, which has been in force since 2012, was “object of a hard legislative debate”, built by the “approach of different political forces”, so it is “the result of legislative pluralism, not only of Legislative Power ”.