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The controversy over beauty pageants: Justice validated the election of the Queen of the Harvest

2023-01-25T14:44:44.999Z


The Supreme Court of Mendoza ordered the Municipality of Guaymallén to choose and crown a sovereign. The beauty queens went to court to defend the contests. And Justice ended up giving them the reason: the Supreme Court of Mendoza ruled this Wednesday that the resolution of the Municipality of Guaymallén that prohibited the election and coronation of the Queen of the Harvest in that district is unconstitutional. Now, the commune directed by the radical Marcelino Iglesias must enable the election


The beauty queens went to court to defend the contests.

And Justice ended up giving them the reason: the Supreme Court of Mendoza ruled this Wednesday that the resolution of the Municipality of Guaymallén that prohibited the election and coronation of the Queen of the Harvest in that district is unconstitutional.

Now, the commune directed by the radical Marcelino Iglesias must enable the election at the party on February 10, with the participation of the queens of the districts in the competition.

According to the newspaper Los Andes, the mayor had already stated that he would abide by the ruling.

“My way of thinking will not change because it is something

anachronistic, retrograde and discriminatory

, but we are going to comply with the Court's ruling, whatever it may be.

Since the rulings are to abide by them and therefore it is an issue that is falling under its own weight, ”Iglesias said about this last November.

Mendoza has spent more than a year discussing the future of the election of the Queen of the Harvest of Guaymallén, the most populous municipality in Greater Mendoza and the only one in the province that dared to annul

the contest that has 80 years of tradition

.

In 2021, the Guaymallén Deliberative Council sanctioned ordinance 9196 that

prohibited the election of the departmental queen.

But the Commission of National Harvest Queens (Corenave) and the Commission of Queens of Guaymallén (Coreguay) filed an unconstitutionality action in the Justice.

The resistance of the

queens of mandate served

, as former sovereigns like to call themselves, generated empathy even in sectors of feminism for a reason: "The freedom to decide as a woman if they want to participate in the departmental queens contest."

In 2022, the judges gave rise to the precautionary measure and provisionally suspended the measure, while the substantive issue was resolved.

In this way they forced the department to present its queen.

At that time, the municipality appointed Sofía Gangretto, who had been elected in 2020.

At the end of December of last year, there was a public hearing called by the Supreme Court of Justice to present

arguments for and against

.

So, five former queens were speakers at the Provincial Court.

They defended the tradition and the role of ambassadors of work, tourism and production, and

discarded the argument that Vendimia is a beauty contest

.

Estefanía Correa was queen of the town of Colonia Segovia in 2017. "I did not get to compete for the national crown, but my victory in the district had a huge impact. I still remember the day I applied to compete and they wanted to discourage me. But Don't tell me no, because I try a thousand times," said the young woman who was a model in special sizes at the time, weighed 122 kilos and was called Queen XL in the media.

"On social networks, 30% of the comments were about my body and my shapes, but 70% supported me," Estefanía recalled in her speech in court.

And she reflected on the repercussion of being a different queen in her physical appearance: "I set out to talk about discrimination, against bullying, and the need to have a size law. I had so much support from the people that although I did not come out queen of the municipality, my application was even in the news in the international press".

look too

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Source: clarin

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