The Buenos Aires Minister of Women, Gender Policies and Sexual Diversity, Estela Diazconsidered this Monday “deeply discriminatory, prejudiced and out of place” The opinion of the macrista Miguel Angel Pichetto on Ayelén Mazzinain charge of the national portfolio in charge of gender policies.
Díaz judged that Pichetto, who this Monday confirmed his questions about Mazzina’s sexual orientation“added tweets to supposedly clarify and aggravate” the controversy.
In dialogue with AM 530, the Buenos Aires minister valued as “important” that the Institute against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism (Inadi) has convened the former running mate of Mauricio Macri to analyze what happened.
The general auditor and leader of Together for Change, Miguel Pichetto ratified his controversial questions to the Minister of Women, Gender and Diversity, Ayelén Mazzina, for her sexual orientation https://t.co/S4Z24jDho3
– Telam Agency (@AgenciaTelam) February 20, 2023
“I may be a dinosaur but I don’t regret it, I don’t blame anyone, I take care of what I say”Pichetto insisted this Monday in an interview.
Days ago, the former senator had said that the portfolio headed by Mazzina “is in the hands of a girl who is a lesbian” and added: “If it’s the Women’s Ministry, they could have put a woman.”
“It’s like the saying, don’t make it darker,” Díaz continued, adding that Pichetto had an opinion “profoundly discriminatory, prejudiced and out of place”.
Proud @AyelenMazzina of the work you are doing.
Closed minds do not admit the positive transformation that our society has undergone.
We want more democracy, more rights and more respect for diversity.
The dinosaurs are already going to disappear, Charly García would say. https://t.co/aBXL14btwC
– Alberto Fernandez (@alferdez) February 18, 2023
In addition, he considered that the official’s statements respond to “a strategy of installation in the public space.”
“There is a sector of the right that is seeing how more and more people run the agenda on the rightthen it seems that (the deputy of La Libertad Avanza) javier milei He sets the script for what he says,” he analyzed.
Pichetto’s expressions in recent days have received rejection, not only from the president Alberto Fernandez but also leaders of various spaces.
“Proud @AyelenMazzina of the work you are doing. Closed minds do not admit the positive transformation that our society has experienced. We want more democracy, more rights and more respect for diversity. The dinosaurs are already going to disappear, Charly García would say,” he wrote. the President on Twitter days ago.
