PD post on the referendum, Amos Mosaner asks for its removal

Ends with Amos Mosaner who requests its removal, the president of CONI, Luciano Buonfiglio, who says he is stunned, and therefore, with the actual deletion of the offending post, the controversy that broke out in the last few hours for a content that the Democratic Party published on social media for the campaign in support of the No vote in the referendum on justice and which effectively ended up ‘enlisting’ the Italian curling team in the battle over justice reform.

Let’s rewind the tape. The video dem showed images of a winning shot by the blue couple as a metaphor for the March vote. “My commitment is and remains exclusively sportyrespecting the Olympic values and of all those who follow and support me”, is the clear one distancedare InstagramOf Amos Mosaner “regarding the diffusion, on the social channels of Democratic Partyof a video that takes images of one of my matches accompanied by a message inviting you to vote for the referendum next March 22nd and 23rd“. “I would like to point out that I was not informed in advance of the use of these images nor did I in any way authorize the association of my sports performance to messages or initiatives of character politico“, clarifies the athlete who then goes on to ask that “the images portraying me be removed from any communication that could generate a connection, direct or indirect, between my sporting activity and initiatives of a political nature”.

The speech of the CONI president

Also intervenes president of the Coni, Luciano Buonfigliosaying he was “astonished” by the fact that “images of our people were used athletes during competitions Olympic Games to promote a political choice“.

The Democratic Party’s response and removal

In the end it is the Pd to explain that “as soon as we learned of the request made by Amos Mosaner and from Stefania Costantinisorry that the post may have lent itself to misunderstandingswas removed immediately“, while observing that “the post published a few hours ago by the account of Democratic Party used the image of a sporting event which had a great following, with a communicative languagethat of memewhich by its nature works thanks to its simplicity and fits into a ironic context“.

“There was no intention to directly involve them athletes in the referendum campaignto give them one political positionnor to exploit theirs in any way sports performanceof which we are, like everyone, proud”, concludes one note them.