This morning, President Alberto Fernández confirmed that he accepted Elizabeth Gómez’s letter of resignation, to which Gabriel Katopodis was not indifferent and spoke about it.
The Minister of Public Works He lamented the departure of Gómez from the national cabinet and assured that the Government loses a great official, “I regret Eli’s decision, I had a daily job with her. The cabinet loses an official and a very capable and committed militant,” he said. Gabriel Katopodis.
When referring to the reasons that led the minister to leave her post, Gabriel Katopodis explained: “She has a position on what happened and must have information on a number of details of the procedure and the actions of the Justice”.
The minister presented her letter of resignation to the president and the chief of staff, Juan Manzur, due to the security operation that took place in Villa Mascardi, where at least eight women were detained.
In this regard, Gómez stated in his letter: “The publicly known events unleashed in Villa Mascardi due to the eviction ordered against the Lafken Winkul Mapu community, in which women and children were detained, with the participation of federal forces, are incompatible with me. with the values that I defend as a political project”.
Although initially the Government had not ruled on the matter, finally this morning the presidency issued a statement confirming that Gómez’s resignation was accepted.
The president also thanked the minister for the work carried outduring the time he was in charge of the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity, a job he had been doing since December 2019.
Gabriel Katapodis spoke about the operation with the Mapuches
In addition to ruling on the departure of Elizabeth Gómez from the national cabinet, the minister He also referred to the conflict with the Mapuche that led to the resignation of the Minister for Women.
In this regard, he indicated: “They are complex, conflictive situations, but the Government, the president, Peronism will always be the guarantor of the rule of law. That diametrically differentiates us from how the macrismo acted in these situations.”
