The Peppa Pig cartoon “entered” after airing an episode in which one of the characters appeared with two mothers, in the middle of the election campaign in Italy, where elections will be held on the 25th.
Throughout the weekend and on Monday (12), the issue was on the agenda of the country’s top leaders.
It all started when the far-right Brothers of Italy (FdI) party opposed the cartoon and demanded censorship for the episode to be broadcast in Italy through the broadcaster “RAI”, which owns the broadcast rights. According to the latest election polls (9) released on Friday, Giorgia Meloni’s FDI is leading in voting intentions at around 24%. Federico Mollicone, the acronym’s cultural director, said it was “unacceptable for the authors to include a two-mother character”. “Me and Meloni will always be on the front lines against discrimination, but we cannot accept gender indoctrination,” the representative said.
“Peppa Pig is a cartoon that reaches the average three-year-old. These are the issues that families should be interested in. I have always thought and continue to think so. Also, the fact that it forces concepts. metabolize them. It’s not the famous phobias that people say,” he said.
After the speeches, Enrico Letta, general secretary of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD), mocked the comments. Legend technically appears to be in second place in the electoral race with the FdI.
“I wanted to talk about everything in Italy, but not about Peppa Pig.
“Unfortunately, the right is forcing us to confront these issues because in some speeches they reveal a vision of a society that shows the backwardness of society and its inability to understand the changes in the country,” he said.
Letta returned to address the issue on social networks, recalling that Meloni posted a video of a woman being raped and was later removed by Twitter.
“Question for Giorgia Meloni: Does the video of the woman being raped in Piacenza go unrestricted while Peppa Pig is censored?” she stated.
Again, MP from PD Alessandro Zan, the author of a law against homophobia and transphobia crimes blocked in the Senate by the pressure of right and far right parties, also mocked FDI.
“Italy’s brothers are alarming, a new enemy is threatening the nation: Peppa Pig,” she wrote on her social media account.
Matteo Salvini, the leader of the ultra-nationalist Liga, which is part of the centre-right coalition that is expected to win elections on the 25th, downplayed the issue when questioned at a political event in Milan.
“If I have to choose between Peppa Pig and the high value of the bills, I choose the bills. For me, controlling the price of the electricity and gas bills is a priority because many Italians don’t even have the money to pay the RAI. But I don’t think that without innovations that concern adults more than children, it’s a priority to control the price of electricity and gas bills. I would let them have the right to watch the cartoons and fairy tales they watched all day long.”
Also, Silvio Berlusconi from Força Italia, which is part of the coalition, spoke about the debate this Monday.
Berlusconi confirmed, “I find it sad and at the same time alarming that a cartoon is used to convey an ideological vision of the minors’ family and sexuality. The same rights and dignity. Another thing is to condition children.” “natural family”.
After the former prime minister’s speech, Monica Cirinnà, the nationally responsible senator for PD Rights, criticized the FI leader.
“Today Berlusconi also finds time to criticize Peppa Pig and reinforces that for them family is just a family. The enormous problems the country is facing right now, from the price of bills to the shadow of war, Berlusconi has nothing better than to attack gay families. And look at this, less bad, the moderate strength of the Força Italia coalition,” the senator mocked.
source: Noticias
