The Comptroller General of the Republic officiated at National Television Council (CNTV) for the broadcast of homophobic content during the television period of the constitutional plebiscite.

The measure was adopted after the complaint Homosexual Integration and Liberation Movement (Movilh), where they assure that the organization violated the law by allowing the diffusion of homophobic and transphobic messages in the block.

Specifically, they allude to what was agreed in the 2014 law for the “introduction of digital terrestrial television”, where sexual orientation and gender identity are “explicitly incorporated as categories protected from discrimination,” they noted.

The Movilh alleges that the CNTV ignored what was established in the regulation, “holding the parties responsible for it and without assuming their responsibilities,” said its spokesperson Óscar Rementería.

Under the same arguments, days ago, the group filed an appeal in the Santiago Court of Appeals after one of the spots of the El Samaritano Foundation, which was part of the Independent Democratic Union segment in the option “Rejection”, will use the LGBTI flag to indicate that “the evangelical church is in danger, we are going to go out to defend it”; all this with images of excesses as a backdrop.

According to the Comptroller’s Office, the CNTV has a term of 10 working days to respond to the complaint by means of a “report that must be prepared with the intervention of the legal department or lawyer of that entity.”

The segment in question is available at minute 03:38 of the following video:

Emission of Electoral Strip September 25 Afternoon (second ID) from CNTV on Vimeo.