The head of INADI, Victoria Donda, Like so many characters in Argentine politics, he has been a participant in several scandals. The most recent occurred after the deputy for the PRO Mary Eugenia Vidal reproached him for his silence after the governor of Formosa, Gildo Insfran called her “mentally retarded” during an act. Something that was not the case when Mauricio Macri said that Germany was a “superior race” and Donda immediately came out to question him with the tip caps.
Donda spoke about the subject in “And now who can help us”, the radio program of Ernest Tenembaum. The journalist asked him if there was a double standard in the INADI, since they seemed to be merciless with the opposition figures but permissive with those of the ruling party. “INADI is one thing and Victoria Donda another as a political leader, that I run INADI, but I am not INADI,” Donda began to justify himself. And he continued to clarify that against Macri it was she who had made an expression as a political leader. But she was not enough, because Twitter fury broke out in the networks, accusing her of having a “double standard.”
It is not the first time that where is involved in scandals. In May 2021, the government official published a tweet celebrating the appointment of Ornella Infante on the Directorate of Anti-Discrimination Policies of the INADI, boasting that she was “the first national trans official”. Which was not the case, since it was the Macri government that granted an important position to a trans girl, when Mara Perez Reynoso took over as head of the Diversity and Non-Discrimination Coordination Office of the Ministry of National Securityheaded by Patricia Bullrich. For this mistake, where She was denounced for discrimination before INADI, an organization that she directs, by Pérez Reynoso, who accused her of wanting to “erase her from Argentine history” and of making her invisible.
But one of the most resonant scandals was in March 2021, when his former domestic employee Arminda Banda Oxa He denounced her for “labor exploitation”: he had worked for the official for 13 years, many of them in black. It happens that during the pandemic, where he had told Banda Oxa that he could not maintain his salary. “I had asked Victoria to please retire me but she came out saying she couldn’t. She never spoke to me again. Two weeks later she called me offering me a position at INADI, I don’t know what position she wanted to give me. Then she offered me a plan social but I did not answer him, ”the employee then denounced.
But the list of scandals goes further. In July 2020, Baby Etchecopar denounced her for having issued “discriminatory expressions” during an interview with students from the PROFILE School of Communication. In said interview, Donda had expressed the desire to “build a society where Baby Etchecopar be disowned and have no audience.” This triggered a criminal complaint, based on the fact that the official “encouraged and invited hatred and proposed to disappear it.”
At the end of that same year, the head of INADI starred in another fight: this time with the referent of + Values, Cynthia Hotton. Both had coincided in TN to discuss the legalization of abortion. Hotton, who is pro-life, began making a series of arguments that Donda called “religious fanaticism.” Faced with this, the former deputy accused that where he was discriminating against her for being a citizen of faith. Not only did she demand Donda’s resignation from INADI, but she later filed a lawsuit against him.
However, Donda seems to have a shell that other former officials of Alberto Fernández such as Martín Guzmán or Matías Kulfas, among others, could not achieve, since he survives in his position, despite the scandals.
