Congressman Alejandro Muñante of Popular Renewal presented the Bill No. 11561which proposes to incorporate the article 402-A to the Criminal Code, in order to criminally sanction those who file “false complaints” in cases of family violence, which includes violence against women and imposes sentences of three to six years in prison.
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“When a woman goes and denounces her partner at a police station, they give the complainant a file in which they must mark from 1 to 10 how much she considers that her partner can be a feminicidal potential and how the woman has anger puts 10” argued during session of the Commission of Women and Family developed this Monday, September 8.
In addition, they seek to establish criminal and civil responsibilities to professionals (lawyers, doctors, psychologists, police, among others) who collaborate in the elaboration of false or adulterated evidence. The law also proposes to modify Law 30364, which fights violence against women and members of the family group, to condition the false complaint as a criminal aggravating.
So far from 2025, the Women’s emergency centers (CEM) attended more than 168,000 cases of violence and carried out more than 99,000 preventive actions, according to the National Bulletin of the Warmi Ñam National Program of the Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations Ministry of Women. These data confirm the high demand for care facing these services.
It should be noted that who presides over the Women and family commissionin which the project is discussed, it is Congresswoman Milagros Jáuregui. His legislative career includes initiatives clearly contrary to women’s rights, such as proposing to repeal the therapeutic abortion applied to an 11 -year -old girl of rape, replace the crime of feminicide for “couple murder” and promote laws to eliminate the gender equality approach and integral sexual education.
Manuela Ramos movement expresses its rejection of bill
Given this, the Manuela movement He expressed his rejection and urged to remember femicide figures in the country. He also demanded that Parliament propose laws supported with statistics of violence against women.
“The bill 11561 threatens with jail women who denounce family violence. We remind congressmen that femicide figures indicate that many complaints are not attended to time and that, in other cases, women are afraid or distrust of denouncing. We demand Congress to legislate from the evidence and address the dramatic reality of family violence with seriousness and commitment,” they wrote in a post on June 19.
