“A normal man He sees a girl’s pretty ass, and he tries it“These words from the Italian mayor of the city of Terni, Stefano Bandecchi, have unleashed outrage in the country.

The politician, from the Popular Alternative party, made these sexist and homophobic statements during a plenary session, and they come after he was criticized for saying in an interview last November that who had never betrayed his girlfriend “He was not a normal man.”

By way of justification, Bandecchi replied that Italian men had understood him, “at least the normal ones, the mentally healthy ones.” And so, he continued: “A normal man sees a girl’s ass, and he tries it. If he gets it, he throws it. And if not, she comes home.”

After these unpleasant statements, there were protests and verbal confrontations in the plenary session between the councilors, who chose to leave the room.

The opposition councilors have now asked in a statement that the mayor resign from his position, and they reproach him for the language he usually uses in plenary sessions, but they especially criticize that those phrases were pronounced when talking about femicides and measures against sexist violenceon which the mayor planned to vote against.

“Once again, the mayor demonstrates total lack of respect towards institutions and towards women, expressing incoherent concepts that we strongly condemn and that should push him to resign,” the letter highlights.

Despite the commotion caused, Bandecchi has not backed down. On his Instagram He has not stopped boasting about his words and to reaffirm themselves in them. “If you want to exile me, please send me to the island of Elba because I would like to follow the same path as Napoleon,” he declared in one of his most recent videos, referring to the criticism he is receiving from the opposition.