Congress Calls on Wilmar Ehler to Publicly Apologize for Speech in Alleged Sexual Assault Case

Congress of the Republicin a statement released through Twitter“regretted” the statements of his third vice president, Wilmar Elerain relation to the case of Congressman Freddy Diaz’s alleged sexual assault against one of his employees, and “exhorted“Apologize to the country.

“We regret expressions of our third vice president of the Board of Directors expressed in the media, and We urge you to make a public apology to the country about statements in the case of Congressman Freddie Diaz Monago,” the statement said.

In turn, Parliament rejected “all kinds of Violence against women that humiliates their dignity.”

As you know, in an interview conducted this morning in TV Peruthe third vice president of Congress let it slip that the alleged incident of rape was due to the fact that the victim worked in “a space for all men.”

“Based on what I’ve been able to find out, I think that Ms. she is the only woman who works in the men’s spacewhich created much more favorable environmentespecially when they start drink liquor”, he referred

Similarly, Elera referred to the fact that this fact was “Very specific” given that the attitude of the alleged aggressor “changed from one moment to the next” due to the alcohol effect.

A few hours after these statements, Elera made a brief statement about the event in twitter, declaring that “the worker is the victim” and accompanied him hashtags “#Not one less”

“NO TO SEXUAL ABUSE is a NO and should be respected. I demand speed in filing a complaint against Kong. Freddie Diaz for rape. Let’s remember that the worker is a victim from the first moment and this fact cannot pass a day without being clarified and sanctioned,” he wrote on this social network.

The Ombudsman’s Office announces

From my side, Ombudsmanby using Twitterdescribed as “serious”Declaration by the Third Vice President of Congress and indicated that he seeks to ‘justify’ sexual violence with ‘stereotypes’ against women.

“We take seriously the statements of the third vice president of Congress, Wilmar Elera, who try to justify the act of rape in a complaint against Congressman Freddie Diaz based on stereotypes and discrimination against women,” the institution said in a statement.

They also asked the judiciary to “extinguish all forms of justification and tolerance to gender-based violence” and “expel revictimization towards the victims.