translated from Spanish: Adriana Barrientos accused her of “slander” her candidacy by the PC: “The only crime I have committed is being very female”

Adriana Barrientos, model and candidate to integrate the Constitutional Convention, came to the step of the communist party’s (PC) petition to lower her candidacy. From the conglomerate they noted that the choice of the former reality show participant “violent awareness of relatives of victims of the dictatorship, and therefore does not represent us”, alluding to various comments made by Barrientos in the past. In this sense, the model insisted that these are “slander”. “I can’t believe the slander raised by the Communist Party saying I’m a pinochetist, that’s a lie. I am not a Pinochetist and I will never endorse the violation of human rights committed in the military dictatorship and, of course, the violation of human rights that were committed with the boys who went out to protest on the street,” he said.” Where is the tolerance they profess, where equality is, where my citizen’s right to apply for a political candidacy is, if I pay my taxes and I am a Chilean citizen and I have not committed any crime,” she continued. He added that during the social outburst “I was afraid when my followers came out and I would write it on my accounts and ask ‘Did you get to the house well?’ because I didn’t know if they were going to get it right, I didn’t know if they were going to get hit, I didn’t know if they were going to be killed.” She even said that “the only crime I’ve committed is being very female and having tremendous stigma for working in showbiz media.” In this same line, he handed over the arguments of his candidacy, reiterating that “I represent many women, I represent – at this minute and more than ever – all those people who are told ‘you, you can’t’ and that’s what the Communist Party is doing to me, he points the finger at me, disqualifies me, he lies,” he said.

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