Soledad Acuña: “The Ministry of Women is only associated as a box for militancy”

The Minister of Education of the City of Buenos Aires, Soledad Acunajoined the controversy over the Ministry of Women, after the cross between its owner Ayelen Mazzina and the Buenos Aires head of government, Horacio Rodriguez Larretaby saying that said portfolio “It only corresponds to the creation of political positions and as a box for militancy“.

In a Twitter thread, Acuña came out at the crossroads of Kirchnerism, without directly mentioning Mazzina, but within the framework of the International Day of Working Women: “I would have liked to hear Kirchnerism defending the right to work for the thousands of women who had to stay at home, with schools closed, during the quarantine. We did not stay in rhetoric and we opened the classrooms, also for a matter of genre”.

Ayelén Mazzina criticized Rodríguez Larreta for promising to close the Ministry for Women: “A secretariat is not the same”

Acuña also spoke of the teacher strikes of Kirchner unions: “I did not hear them oppose the Teacher strike organized by the Kirchnerist unions to impede the right to education and the equality of opportunities that is built in the classrooms“.

“You have to put an end, once and for all, to the stories. Since its creation, the Ministry of Women should only be for the creation of political positions and as a fund for militancy,” he shot.

And he concluded: “Talking about gender equality should not be just an expression of desire for those of us who have the responsibility to govern. It must be a clear goal to be achieved with public policies that generate real opportunities and transform the lives of women.”

The sayings of Rodríguez Larreta about the Ministry of Women

His statements come just after Rodríguez Larreta declared his intention to close the Ministry of Womenwith the idea of ​​halving the number of current ministries if he is elected president this 2023.

“I don’t think that the importance that one gives to an issue in the government depends on having a ministry, secretary or undersecretary. The ministry, the only thing it puts is more bureaucracy”, the head of the Buenos Aires Government had assured.

Ayelén Mazzina’s response to Larreta

Due to these statements by the PRO candidate, Mazzina quickly responded: “Larreta and that sector have been insisting on the closure of the Ministry (of Women, Gender and Diversity) for a long time. You have to understand the depth of where you want to go with this”I present in dialogue with the radio futurerockwhere he also said that his portfolio “was won in the heat of feminist struggles.”

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