Lollobrigida: “We cannot surrender to ethnic substitution”. The opposition protests

“We cannot give up on the idea of ​​ethnic replacement: Italians have fewer children and we replace them with someone else. That’s not the way”. As Francesco Lollobrigida, speaking at the tenth Cisal congress. The Minister of Agriculture spoke on the issues of falling birth rates and demographic decline, also in relation to the issue of migrants as a response to the lack of people on the labor market. An intervention that follows by a few days the indications contained in the Def, according to which the presence of immigrants could in the future have a positive effect on the public debt.

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“Births are not encouraged by convincing people to spend more time at home”, said Meloni’s loyalist, according to whom the way “is to build a welfare system that allows you to work and have a family, support young couples to find a occupation”. Demographic growth, continued the minister, “travels in parallel with better assistance also within our national territory: the regions where there is less welfare see a much more significant demographic decline than the others”.

Words that dust off a formula that the Melonians seemed to have abandoned by now – that of “ethnic replacement” – and which have provoked a strong reaction from the opposition. “White supremacist language,” he attacks Elly Schlein. “These are unworthy words from those who hold the role of minister, which take us back to the 1930s and are said, moreover, on the day when President Mattarella is visiting Auschwitz”, added the Pd secretary, hoping ” that Giorgia Meloni distances herself forcefully”.

The comment from the leader of Action also arrived, Charles Calenda: “Reviving the old refrain of ethnic replacement brings the government back to a posture incompatible with an authoritative presence in Europe. We are facing a mistaken and dangerous involution for Italy“. Statements that match those made by Riccardo Magi: “They use the worst theorems of race, typical of the supremacist and conspiracy right, which have been the inspiration for numerous attacks. They do not realize how serious and dangerous it is to wield those theorems while staying in the institutions and because having this political culture they cannot even to read and understand the economic and financial document that their government has drawn up”, added the secretary of +Europe, underlining – as did his dem colleague – that Lollobrigida’s words came just as the President of the Republic is in Poland.

In the morning, on the theme of work and the demographic crisis, she also spoke in other tones Giorgia Meloni, anticipating a measure the government would be working on. “It is objective that there is a problem with the stability of our economic and social system given the fact that for too many years we have not invested in the birth rate and demography”, said the premier in view of the Salone del Mobile in Milan, explaining that “the The way to solve the problem is not with migrants but with that large unused reserve which is female employment.By raising the levels of female employment and bringing them to the European average, our data would already change a lot and also by working on demographics, and therefore on incentives the possibility for families to bring children into the world. This is what the government is working on”.