The Minister of Defense of the Nation,
Luis Petri
, chose to avoid the controversy raised this March 24 by the Government of President Javier Milei over the number of missing people during the last Military Dictatorship, and considered that it is an issue that does not enrich the consolidation of democracy.
Interviewed this Sunday, when the National Day for Memory and Justice is commemorated, the minister preferred to make general considerations about the democratic history of Argentina, and not enter into the discussion about whether or not there were 30,000 missing persons revived from a video published by the official Casa Rosada account in X and retweeted by President Milei.
"The institutional breakdowns in Argentina began on September 6, 1930 and we only consolidated the democratic system on December 10, 1983. You think that in that period in Argentina only 9 presidents should have passed if the constitutional mandates of six years had been fulfilled, and we had more than 23," Petri said during an interview this morning on Radio Rivadavia.
"And this speaks of perhaps the darkest time that was experienced in those 53 years, where it cost a lot to recover democracy and today we have to value that recovery and that consolidation of democracy and condemn each and every one of those institutional breaks that occurred. in the country," added the member of the national Cabinet.
When asked what he thought about the number of missing people, the minister
chose to stay out of the controversy
and not adhere to the ruling party's position, made explicit in the video.
"
It seems to me that it does not contribute to the discussion
. The truth is that it is a trap between those who say 'the figure is not such' or 'it is such'. It does not contribute anything to the debate. What it does contribute is
to work to consolidate the democracy every day
," he noted.
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