Pre-election candidate for Guayas Prefecture, Hector Vanegas, was drawn into the controversy after making sexist comments during a Democratic Center Party rally on Saturday. The situation caused controversy in Ecuador.
“When I walk the streets, women come out and take out not handkerchiefs, but pants,” Vanegas assured at a campaign rally, according to a video broadcast by the Ecuadorian newspaper La Hora.
Vanegas running in the elections for the prefecture of Guayas which will take place on February 5, 2023, noted hundreds of users on social networkswho accused him of being “macho” and “disrespectful”.
A few hours later, the candidate himself shared a video apologizing for his comment, claiming that he was “carried away by the emotions of being on the platform” in Ecuador.
“I said this at the beginning, I am not a politician, I am actually probably the most politically incorrect figure that will be on the ballot. Politicians, when they make mistakes, don’t apologize for those mistakes, they justify them. I am going to apologize for this mistake of mine, because I am a citizen, not a politician, ”Vanegas said in a video message.
“I apologize first of all to the woman, society, my mother, my wife and my daughter who are present here. I have seen a viral video of my family and it is true that it is over the top and goes against my advocacy and fight for women,” she added, according to Metro Ecuador.
The election candidate thanked the people who “raised their voices of protest” and asked to be allowed to “make this apology.” “This old political style should always be condemned,” he said.
Judge who freed accused of corruption sacked
Ecuador’s Judicial Council fired last week for “gross negligence” a judge who in April freed Jorge Glas, the country’s former vice president during Rafael Correa’s presidency, who is serving two hard prison sentences for corruption, one of which is linked to the Odebrecht case.
Justice Diego Moscoso, who had already been removed from office a few days after the controversial decision, was finally dismissed in a plenary session of the Judicial Council, deeming him to have committed a “very serious breach”.
Moscoso, who served as a judge in the jurisdiction of Manglaralto in the coastal province of Santa Elena, granted Glas’s habeas corpus defense appeal so that he could regain his freedom, alleging a deterioration in his physical and mental health due to prison conditions.
(According to Europe Press)
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