The Argentinian government would like to remove the criminal concept of feminicide, considering “that no life is only worth another,” said the Minister of Justice, a wish to become a legislative, however uncertain, in a parliament where the forces of the president Ultraliberal Javier Milei are very minority.
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“We will eliminate the concept of feminicide from the Argentinian penal code. Because this government defends equality before the law inscribed in our national constitution, “said Minister of Justice Mariano Cuneo Lebarona on Friday on his account X, echoing the diatibe of Javier Milei the day before on feminism, at the Forum from Davos.
Milei, taking up one of his regular arguments, said Thursday that “radical feminism is a distortion of the concept of equality”. And that the concept of feminicide “legalized, in fact, that the life of a woman is worth more than the life of a man”.
“Whatever our gender, we are all equal to the law and deserve the same protection and the same respect” supports the Lebarona Minister on Friday.
The notion of feminicide was incorporated into the Argentinian penal code in 2012, although the word is not explicitly there. But he considers as an aggravating circumstance, liable to perpetuity, the homicide “of a woman perpetrated by a man and undergoing gender violence”. That is to say kill “for her condition of woman, because she is a woman,” explains the criminalist Gaston Francone to AFP.
-Among other aggravating circumstances in homicide, the penal code also considers questions of race, religion, sexual orientation, or “for pleasure”.
Homicide without aggravating circumstance is liable to 25 years in prison.
Since the end of 2024, some media, citing government sources, have echoed the will of the Milei presidency – to the frequent outings against “the agenda”, “cancer” WOKE – to return to legislations of last years relating to gender.
Thus eliminate feminicide, delete the possibility (since 2012) to change gender identity on simple declaration, and (since 2021) the “non -binary” identity documents offering the “x” option on passport and card of identify. The executive would like to present a bill to this effect at the next ordinary session of the Parliament, from March.
But the very admission of these sources, the legislative becoming of such a project is hypothetical. The ultra -liberal group of Milei is very minority – 3rd or 4th force – to the two chambers of Parliament, where the peronist opposition (center left) which had carried these laws, remains the first block. In 2012, the Senate approved the gender identity law to an overwhelming majority.
