Terni mayor Bandecchi slammed for vulgar outburst in council chamber.
The outspoken mayor of the central Italian city of Terni landed himself in a recent controversy on Monday over his remarks throughout a council debate on combating violence towards ladies.
Stefano Bandecchi, of the conservative Alternativa Popolare occasion, stated: “A traditional man seems to be at a girl’s good ass and possibly even tries it on along with her. Then if he succeeds…, that is nice, if he would not he goes residence as an alternative”.
Bandecchi was replying to councillor Cinzia Fabrizi, of the rightwing Fratelli d’Italia, after she criticised a November assertion wherein the mayor claimed that “anybody who has by no means cheated on their girlfriend just isn’t regular”.
Bandecchi, 62, stated that every one “regular” Italian women and men perceive what he meant however famous that Italy is “filled with imbeciles”.
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Il sindaco Stefano #Bandecchi (#AP) in occasione della discussione di una mozione sulla violenza di genere: “un uomo normale guarda il bel culo di una donna e forse ci prova. Se ci riesce se la tromba anche. Se non ci riesce, se ne torna a casa”.@ultimora_pol pic.twitter.com/FCyMPZbuCt— Ultimora.web – POLITICS (@ultimora_pol) January 22, 2024
The centre-left Partito Democratico (PD) has referred to as on Bandecchi to resign as mayor, a task for which he “as soon as once more demonstrates his unworthiness” to carry, in an announcement signed by deputy Sara Ferrari, a member of the parliamentary fee of inquiry into femicide and all types of gender violence.
“He proudly claims a “pure” justification of the predatory Italian male, incapable of referring to ladies besides as recipients of his personal pleasure” – the assertion from the PD reads – “Sadly, it’s exactly the “normalisation” of sexist reasoning, which recognises ladies as the item of “pure” and due to this fact uncontrollable male need, that cripples the cultural battle towards violence towards ladies.”
The rightwing Lega occasion additionally referred to as for Bandecchi’s resignation, claiming that he has “diminished the town council to a dive” together with his “scurrilous and vulgar language, provocations, insults”, information company ANSA stories.
“It’s not the primary time that Bandecchi indulges in behaviour that reveals a complete lack of tradition of respect for ladies, as has already occurred lately throughout a tv programme and on many different events wherein his phrases have gone past the boundaries of decency”, the Lega stated.
Bandecchi responded to the controversy on Monday with a sarcastic video on Instagram wherein he stated: “If you wish to exile me, please are you able to ship me to Elba? As a result of I would prefer to comply with the identical path as Napoleon.”
A self-made multimillionaire, Bandecchi based the personal Niccolò Cusano College in 2006 and was the proprietor of Ternana Calcio males’s soccer membership from 2017 to 2023.
The mayor of Terni Stefano Bandecchi makes an attempt a bodily confrontation with opposition councillors (after threatening them with ‘knocking their tooth out’), is restrained by cops and the town council assembly is suspended.
August 28, 2023 pic.twitter.com/7SGli4Nvm2— Loopy Ass Moments in Italian Politics (@CrazyItalianPol) August 28, 2023
Final August he made headlines for being bodily restrained by cops in Terni council chamber after threatening an opposition councillor with “knocking his tooth out”.
Bandecchi has served as mayor of Terni – a big city positioned about 100 km north-east of Rome within the Umbria area – since Could 2023.
