In Argentina, the Government wants to eliminate femicide from the penal code

The current law would create "only privileges" .  For President Javier Milei, it is a concept that "in effect legalizes that a woman's life is worth more than a man's"

The government of Argentina has announced that it will propose the elimination of femicide from the penal code, arguing that the current law implies "a distortion of the concept of equality that only creates privileges, pitting half the population against the other" .

"We will eliminate the concept of femicide from the Penal Code because this administration defends equality before the law enshrined in our national Constitution. No life is worth more than another ," wrote  Justice Minister Mariano Cúneo Libarona in X.

The current law provides for increased sentences for those convicted of killing women on grounds of gender. 
 In his impassioned speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos 24 hours earlier, Argentine President Javier Milei had criticized how the concept of femicide " in effect legalizes that a woman's life is worth more than a man's . "

To change the Argentine Penal Code, a law must be passed in Parliament where the government is in a minority and opposed by the center-left opposition , which had introduced femicide when it was in power.