The general auditor and leader of Together for Change Miguel Pichetto ratified this Monday his controversial questions to the Minister of Women, Gender and Diversity, Ayelén Mazzina, for her sexual orientation, and assured that he does not regret what he stated days ago, expressions that earned him the repudiation of broad sectors of politics and leaders of civil society.
“I will be a dinosaur but I do not regret it, nor do I blame anyone, I take care of what I say,” emphasized Mauricio Macri’s former presidential running mate in statements to Radio Rivadavia.
However, he clarified: “I have never discriminated against any type of sexual identity. I believe in individual rights.”
“I support article 19 of the National Constitution and I have encouraged in Congress all kinds of laws that are in line with the rights that Mazzina raises, with this Ministry of minorities,” he argued.
Because -he added- “deep down, the Ministry for Women belongs to intense minorities, ghetto politics, small, oriented towards minorities with valid and legitimate sexual identities that develop and exercise them in freedom.”
In another section of the interview, Pichetto insisted: “It is important to analyze the ideological vision of the minister and not her sexual identity. I respect that everyone lives as they want, but if you are at a function and you have 261 femicides, the policy has to be directed towards that. To the concern about that issue”.
Case Dupuy
Days ago, the former senator from Macrista had told the channel La Nación+ that “the Ministry of Women did not rule” on the Lucio Dupuy case because that portfolio “is in the hands of a girl who is lesbian, but if it is a women’s ministry, they could have put a woman”.
After the controversy over these statements, Pichetto published a series of tweets in which he stated that his “intention was to denounce that the Ministry for Women did not repudiate the murder of Lucio Dupuy because the sexual orientation of the minister coincided with those of the perpetrators of the crime.”
However, Mazzina had spoken about the case in an interview with Télam on February 2, before the verdict was announced.
“There are two direct perpetrators who have to be condemned by justice,” he said then, alluding to Lucio and with the aim -he said- of “breaking the silence about violence against children, in a context of hostility, of speeches from hatred and with a right that makes public debate difficult for us.”
President Alberto Fernández -like a large number of leaders from various spaces- expressed solidarity with Mazzina through a post on his Twitter account: “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, ”he wrote.
In the last hours, too, the Minister of Equality, Gender and Diversity of Santa Fe, Florencia Marinaro, pointed out on Twitter: “Once again the speeches that indicate what women are or should be. Judging our ability to perform in politics by our sexual orientation or gender identity. Once again the stereotypes encircling our freedom”.
“Miguel Pichetto knows well about responsibility and the amplification of his sayings, generating controversies that divert the true debates that we need to give ourselves as a society,” he warned.