Again Amalia Granata is at the center of the controversy. After the assassination attempt against Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on Thursday, the deputy described the event as a “armed pantomime” and reproduced a fake news that pointed to a Kirchnerist militant as the author of the crime.
A part of front of all on the Santa Fe Chamber of Deputies, called for Granata’s expulsion “for being an embarrassment and a generator of serial hatred.” “Amalia Granata is part of a monobloc, a serial provocateur, a skillful communicator, she thinks that politics is a television set and therefore she uses every morning to rudely disqualify the rest”, declared the PJ deputy in Santa Fé Luis Rubéo.
But the deputy scoffed, pointing out that “they don’t have the votes to kick her out”, and issued a warning: “Don’t look for me, because look, I’m going to start talking about all your gimmicks”adding that she would mess with the “lovers, families, mothers and children” of those who threaten to kick her out.
And it is not the first time that Granata has been in the eye of the storm for her opinions. In June, when the United States Supreme Court canceled the ruling “Roe vs. Wade” (one that was valid for half a century) that gave American women the possibility of unpunished abortion, the deputy published on her Twitter: “In the world, there is again Justice. In Argentina, we are going to achieve it too”.
HShowing off her public position against the voluntary interruption of pregnancy, in addition, Granata had already declared in March of this year that “if her daughter was raped, she would raise the baby.” “My role as a mother is that she understands that there is a life inside her womb and that life, when she decides to abort, she is going to kill him and he is her son,” she added then.
And more controversy brought his proposal to install a mandatory civic service in Santa Fe for “those who neither study nor work”. Granata argued that her proposal “It would guide the behavior of young people in the country”, and took the Israeli case as an example: “I loved compulsory military service. I feel fabulous. Education in Israel is model. Let’s start taking examples from countries that work and not from Venezuela”.
Finally, Granata publicly opposed state assistance for this trans community, arguing that it constitutes a “privilege”as well as questioned the existence of the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity. “I don’t need my rights recognized on a holiday, because I already have them. Before the law I am equal to men and I earn the respect of my peers alone with my actions. Let’s put an end to the tribunero story that is behind”, declared Granata on March 8 on the occasion of Women’s Day.
