Villarruel inaugurated a bust of Isabel Perón in the Senate and criticized those who left her “at the mercy of terrorism”
The vice president, Victoria Villarruelremoved a bust of the former president months ago Nestor Kirchner from the Hall of Provinces of the Senate and replaced it this afternoon with one of the former Argentine president Isabel Peron. During the inauguration, the head of the upper house directed semi-veiled darts at Christianity and camporism, in particular, when asking the whereabouts of “those people who left a woman, whose last name is Perón, at the mercy of the terrorism she fought, by the de facto government that imprisoned her and, finally, by a political class that banished her”.
“Today the ban on Isabel Peronimposed by the same people who now lead the political party that bears their same last name and that has corroded the structural bases of our great nation, ignoring the ideas that fed the Justicialist doctrine”said Villarruel, who thanked the former singer and leader of “Almafuerte”, Ricardo Iorio, who “generously and posthumously” donated the bust in question.
Beyond the claim, The head of the Senate made it clear that she was not coming to “praise her management or her government.”but to comply with an act of historical reparation towards a woman who, widowed and alone, had to endure more than 40 years of persecution and ostracism.
“There are not a few of us Argentines who, even if we share little, much or nothing of his ideas, value the courage and patriotism with which he faced the ingratitude and offenses of his enemies, who were not few.”, highlighted the Vice President.
The outcome occurred after months of dispute between Villarruel and the Frente de Todos, when one of the greatest leaders and founder of La Libertad Avanza gave the order to remove the bust of former president Néstor Kirchner from the same room. “We took it out because He was not a senator, he was not vice president, I am not his widow and here there must be equality in all spaces. Simply for that reason,” the head of the upper house argued at that time.
The Vice President with Isabel Perón
Hours before this afternoon’s event, held during the “Day of Loyalty” celebrated by various branches of the now remembered Justicialist Party, Villarruel published on the X network images of a meeting he had last Thursday, as corroborated Infobaewith one’s own Isabel Peron. In the post, he maintained that it was the “first constitutionally elected female president of the world and of Argentina”. And he added: “Vice president like me and a well-born Argentine”.
Already in the Senate, the head of the upper house expressed that the former president “She never asked for revenge, nor did she criticize the cowards who had harmed her. nor, much less, did he raise his voice against our country.” Along these lines, he observed that, “On the contrary, revealing a dignity as high as his courage, he made silence a martyrdom.”.
“What a difference with current politicians, right? For much less, we see them victimizing themselves without knowing what it means to face danger, exile or, much less, prison. “They already have the miserable habit of crying and selective indignation,” said Villarruel.
“Today the complicit silence ends and the strident cry of what should always have been raised rises: Isabel Martínez de Perón, not ‘Isabelita’, once again has the voice that should never have been taken away from her. I trust that, by reflecting on these virtues, we Argentines will take the first steps towards the necessary national pacification. The country is divided and in ruins, it is not possible to even dream of a great nation project where hatred and confrontation reign.”the vice president suggested.
Finally, Villarruel challenged “the Argentine people, without distinction of ideologies, to the arduous task of promoting that peace, which is essential to rise up.” And he warned that “only one condition is required to not condescend to discord: a deep love for the country.”
