The former candidate for Buenos Aires legislator of Together for Change, franco rinaldi He resigned his candidacy amid the controversy over his homophobic, xenophobic and anti-Jewish statements.
As he explained in his account on the social network Twitter, the determination seeks not harm the pre-candidate for Buenos Aires head of government on his list, Jorge Macri.
“Well, this got too complicated and I want to spare my family suffering, and I don’t want to be a hindrance to anyone, much less Jorge Macri. who I do not doubt will be an extraordinary head of the City Government. In order not to harm him and the entire team that trusted me, I want to tell you that I am renouncing my candidacy for Buenos Aires deputy”detailed the former pre-candidate in his networks.
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“It hurts my soul to make this decision, because I believe that the attacks are unfair, opportunistic, false, and that their sole objective is to harm the rival list. I already said what I think of those video clippings and I apologized,” Rinaldi expressed.
“It deeply offends me to be told that I am homophobic or anti-Semitic, nothing but nothing further from mebut I can’t do more. Son very large attacks built with a lot of money that one day must explain. But I think that at this point it is too much to ask Jorge to support me, because the bottom of the matter is another. The discussion is different “, he expected.
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The political scientist pointed to the list headed by the candidate Martin Lousteau: “I am paying back a burden for the campaign, and this only benefits the instigators, who are also our competitors. That’s it. This policy is like that and I will continue to fight for freedom and the Constitution in the place that touches me. Thanks to Jorge for thinking of me and to everyone who was happy to see me on the list. I will continue fighting, as I have done all my life. See you soon”.
“Synagogue 12”: new controversial expressions attributed to Rinaldi
This Thursday a new controversy was opened when in a video Rinaldi referred to the newspaper Page 12 as “Synagogue 12” and revived the controversy after his homophobic statements that came to light last week.
The term “Synagogue 12” was used by Guillermo Patricio Kelly, an Argentine political leader who was a member of the “Nationalist Liberation Alliance”, a pro-Nazi space. “It seems to me that I have even seen a note in the newspaper Synagogue 12 about it, as GP Kelly told him that Página 12 was called Synagogue 12,” Rinaldi said.
last week, Radicalism asked the Electoral Board of Juntos por el Cambio de la Ciudad that the candidate for head of government Jorge Macri eliminate from his list the first pre-candidate for Buenos Aires legislator (Rinaldi) for “homophobia and discrimination”.
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The request was made on Friday by the head of the Radical Civic Union of CABA, Mariela Coletta, after videos of Rinaldi in which he has discriminatory expressions and against the gay community circulated on social networks. It is a compilation of different moments of his live broadcasts on Twitter in recent times.
“Or do we kill the morochos or let them do what they want?”is one of the phrases, to which are added other statements about Villa 31: “It is a complicated problem. Flamethrower.”
Rinaldi’s statements were also repudiated by the presidentialist Horacio Rodriguez Larreta: “I deeply disagree and I heard Jorge Macri also disagree.”
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