Nazi candidacy challenged in the City of Buenos Aires

City of Buenos Aires, May 27, 2011

Lawmakers of Nuevo Encuentro Gonzalo Ruanova and Gabriela Cerruti submitted a request to challenge the candidacy for head of Government of Buenos Aires of Alejandro Biondini, known neo-Nazi.

The MPs and Martin Sabbatella were honored by the Delegation of Argentine Jewish Associations (DAIA) for this request, which should be answered to in the next 48 hours.

There, the candidate for Governor of the Province of Buenos Aires said Biondini “is a character who has a history of anti-Semitism, racism, xenophobia and has a history of challenges. We believe that democracy must be the limit of space and political space, and there should be room for a character like this, for characters of its kind to claim the worst in the history of mankind.”

Also, leader of the bloc of deputies of Nuevo Encuentro noted that “We are asking that the various political forces to adhere to this because these situations have to be taken by all democratic forces. We can not naturalize the existence of such of proposals.”

In a statement marking this recognition, the DAIA said: “Biondini, connected to discriminatory and Judeophobic behavior, uses Nazi symbols on his Web sites, denies the Holocaust and has questioned the legitimacy of democratic institutions.”

Biondini during a political rally of the Partido Nuevo Triunfo