Uruguay
The Broad Front backed Blanca Rodríguez and condemned a smear campaign
The FA National Political Board expressed its support for the senator and linked the attacks to gender-based political violence. It also called for setting aside insults and violent confrontation in public debate.
The National Political Board of the Broad Front expressed its rejection of the attacks directed at Senator Blanca Rodríguez and voiced its support for her parliamentary work, according to Caras y Caretas Uruguay.
According to the statement, the FA said these types of episodes are not isolated and recalled that it had previously spoken out against attacks on Broad Front leaders, which it classified as gender-based political violence.
Also according to what was published by Caras y Caretas Uruguay, the political force said that in recent days Rodríguez was the target of a smear and discrediting campaign. The FA attributed that situation to a distortion of the senator’s public statements in order to discredit her proposal to promote regulation against hate speech on social media.
The Political Board added that the attacks against Rodríguez are repeated systematically in response to each of her initiatives. In that line, it said that discrediting the person instead of debating ideas is part of macho violence practices aimed at intimidating and silencing women who hold positions of political representation.
In addition to rejecting what happened, the Broad Front expressed its solidarity with those who suffer media or political violence in the exercise of public functions and called on political forces and leaders to reflect on these events. It also urged them to banish insults, abuse and violent confrontation as customary forms of interaction.
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