The General Directorate of Disability Rights handed over this Friday to the General Staff. Investigation “Mocking Podemos candidate” for mayor of Valencia, Pilar LimaSources from the 2030 Agenda this Tuesday, led by Minister Ione Belarra, secretary general of the Ministry of Social Rights and Podemos, reported in the program “El Hormiguero”.
The host of the show asked Pablo Motos, “What requirements must a candidate meet, regardless of party, to be accepted?” Comedian Miguel Lago replied with a laugh: “Deaf. Coming from Valencia, says Irene Montero, is the best candidate: deaf, lesbian”. “As all else goes, start craving: ‘And here’s this lame we brought’”, he added.
In his letter to the prosecutor’s office, The Directorate General emphasizes that these comments “constitute an attack on the right to equality and non-discrimination”. contribute to the development of people with disabilities and “stereotypes and prejudices seriously affecting the lives of people with disabilities.
Through these, he adds: given for “clearly understanding that it is absolutely absurd” a person with a disability, in this case ‘because he is deaf or lame’, not qualified to perform functions characteristic of the political position for which he was elected”.
The Ministry refers to various articles of the Constitution, the General Law on Audio-Visual Communications, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and the Equal Treatment and Non-Discrimination Law as legal bases. The Royal Board on Disability also filed a complaint against the program, arguing that “freedoms have limits when the rights of third parties are compromised”. In a statement on its Twitter account, the institution said, “We will not remain indifferent to applications that stigmatize and ridicule people with disabilities.”