(ANSA) - TERNI, 01 NOV - A cartoon published on his private Facebook profile by the president of the Province of Ternie, center-left mayor of Guardea, Giampiero Lattanzi, Pd, in which a dialogue appears between two young people with sexual allusions is causing controversy in the Umbrian city.
Chearrivano after those related to the anti-prostitution ordinance of the Terni mayor Leonardo Latini, Lega.
A post "in line with a genre of goliardicotypically masculine humor of a very low level that would not be well suited even to the taverns of the past" defines Lattanzi Fratelli d'Italia's lavignetta. Arguing are ten different city councilors and councilors from Terni who are members of the FdI, together with Fiorella Ciani, the head of the Equal Opportunities department of the Umbrian party. They argue that the post - in the meantime removed by Lattanzi himself after the criticisms of the social media - "highlights in a striking way the communal places that have existed for centuries in the face of the female sex", without "any misunderstanding whatsoever". "It would already be very little justifiable a post like this - for the exponents of FdI - if any person had published it,instead in this case it is a person who holds a public office, or rather two ".
As for the removal of the post, according to the eleven Lattanzi administrators "he did not even have the courage to keep his face and continue to convey sad and sexist messages".
"I am sexist? Anyone who knows my story knows very well that I am not" retorts, contacted by ANSA, Lattanzi himself. Ilquale defends - as always done via social media - the "good faith" of the publication. "It has taken on meanings that he absolutely did not want to have - he continues -, because he wanted to be just a goliardic joke to snatch a smile in the context of a sort of 'column' that in the past has also mocked men.
I didn't want to damage anyone's values, least of all women, many of whom had responded with a like to the cartoon.
My way of acting and thinking as a private citizen and administrator proves it.
But from now on - he concludes - I will be more careful ". (ANSA).