The right-wing Fratelli D’Italia (FdI) party has come under fire after one of its candidates in the September 25 general election called for State broadcaster RAI not to screen an episode of the children’s cartoon Peppa Pig in which one of the characters has two mothers.
“The decision by the producers of the Peppa Pig cartoon to include a character with two mothers is unacceptable,” said FdI’s Federico Mollicone.
“Political correctness strikes again, and our children are the ones who pay the price.
“We ask RAI, who buys the rights to the Peppa Pig series in Italy with the license fees of the Italian people, not to broadcast the episode in question on any channel or web platform.”
Alessandro Zan, an MP for the centre-left Democratic Party (PD), mocked that stance.
“Fratelli D’Italia have sounded the alarm - the new enemy of the nation is Peppa Pig,” Zan said via Twitter.
The centrist Più Europa party was sarcastic too.
“Who knows what will happen when they realise that families with parents of the same sex exist in reality, not just in cartoons,” it said.
