translated from Spanish: Deputy Jaime Mulet mulls questioning women’s minister

This after the murder of Amber Cornejo, where criticism has arisen in the conduct of public policies that ensure the protection of women. The parliamentarian noted that “looking at what happens to the Amber case, we started to do an analysis of the gender discrimination between men and women in our country, as to whether we have made progress or not, and we have realized that over the past few years, particularly in the governments of President Piñera, all efforts driven since the ’90s , first in the Sernam and then with the Ministry of Women and Gender Equity, it has been deteriorating, as it begins to decline in governments where there is no concern on such a complex and sensitive issue.” This is not just about increasing penalties, punishing in the case of femicide. And in this sense, we believe that especially today, the authority in charge has not been up to the task, because the authorities that in the Women’s Ministry have put the government of Piñera, are people who come from other sectors, such as Monica Zalaquett, and unfortunately that has resulted in the fact that there is no force with which this is a matter so relevant to make the changes it needs in this matter , and thus stop seeing discrimination against women only as a matter of vulnerability or as a social-only problem many times,” he added. Mulet emphasized that “gender-based violence is a structural and complex problem, so the State must respond in various areas, and from there this appeal is a way of dealing with a discussion from the conceptual framework.” Beyond there will be an investigative commission and a constitutional indictment, we believe that discussion has to be done from the public, of public policy, and we see that there is a weakness that has to obviously change,” the parliament said.

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