National deputy Margarita Stolbizer (Gen-Encuentro Federal) deemed President Javier Milei's speech in Davos as "very serious," where he repudiated gender policies and human rights. She stated that listening to him caused her "secondhand embarrassment" due to his "retrograde and medieval" message.
"I find it very serious; it is impossible to propose such a significant regression as the President is doing in Davos; it is a retrograde and medieval speech," Stolbizer expressed during an interview on the program "Contacto Digital" on Radio Rivadavia. The legislator from the Gen party, part of the Encuentro Federal block led by Miguel Pichetto, stated that she feels "concern and pain," and even "secondhand embarrassment" for Milei's "absurd" ideas.
"The president of a democratic country cannot express only his absurd ideas recklessly; he must think that he represents millions of people who decided many years ago to live in democracy and chose that human rights are always progressive," emphasized Stolbizer. Additionally, she questioned the announcement by Justice Minister Mariano Cuneo Libarona regarding the Executive's intention to send a bill to Congress to eliminate the term "femicide" from the Penal Code.
"It is a brutality from a legal standpoint," she added, referring to the minister's statement that "one person's life cannot be worth more than another's." The deputy pointed out that this "denies reality in a country where a woman is killed every 27 to 30 hours."
Stolbizer expressed her confidence that Congress "will have the capacity and maturity to stop these things," as "the Constitution establishes measures for positive discrimination, to try to balance a field that is naturally unequal."
