Soumahoro joins the Misto group: “Embittered: no human solidarity and support from the Verdi-Left”

“I was frankly amazed and embittered, with the exception of a few MPs, by the absence of human solidarity and political support from the Alleanza Verdi-Sinistra (AVS) parliamentary group, with which I was elected as an independent. After a careful and suffered meditation on the human and political level, I matured the decision to join the Mixed parliamentary group, leaving the AVS group, to continue my activity as a Parliamentarian”. It was the deputy himself who announced the transition to the new group Aboubakar Soumahoro who in a substantial dossier reverses the accusations that have rained down on him in recent months.

Soumahoro suspended himself from the Left Green Alliance parliamentary group before Christmas. A ‘push’ decision, in the sense that it was decidedly supported by Angelo Bonelli And Nicola Fratoianni, the two promoters of the list that brought him to Parliament. Now joining Misto. Angelo Bonellico-spokesman of Green Europe and deputy of Alleanza Verdi Sinistra, replies in a few words: “I have nothing to say about this, except that we are terribly disappointed humanly by this person”.

Soumahoro on the right to elegance

Then he goes back to talking about his wife, Liliane Murekatete, and of his declaration on the “right to fashion and elegance”: “I was not understood. I was referring to the right of anyone to dress as they see fit. However, I find it really strange that I am asked to express a value judgment about photos of my partner dating back 4 years before I met her”. And on the investigation opened by the Latina Public Prosecutor’s Office on the conditions of the workers in the Karibu cooperative, the dossier reads, the photos of Liliane Murekatete were taken “from newspapers, websites and magazines which have underlined and commented on her way of dressing, the type of clothing and accessories used, etc. Provocatively nicknamed ‘lady Gucci’ – the dossier continues – the woman was at the center of a series of heavy comments and insinuations from the press and opinion leaders of various kinds”.

Soumahoro: “Person of color is fine as long as poor and on the margins”

A black person “is fine as long as he is a ‘yard nigger’, as long as he protests with banners, which I have done a thousand times and will never stop doing, if he is poor and on the margins. But if he tries to make a leap in quality immediately disturbs”. This is, according to Aboubakar Soumahoro, one of the reasons that led to an “unjustified persistence” against him. It is a “dimension relating to me as an individual”, he underlines in the dossier, speaking of a second dimension, this one relating to the “social model”: the model of the Lega Braccianti, with the workers in the fields not only foreign but also Italian – he states – who self-determine and self-manage”. This “is very scary, it takes power away from a system of welfare whose objective is to maintain the state of emergency, simply because as long as there is an emergency there is money pouring in to manage the emergency, and, since nothing happens by chance, perhaps this can help explain why there has been so much unjustified harassment against me”.

Soumahoro: “I asked for clarification on Karibu in 2021”

“At the end of 2021, I read some press articles on the non-payment of some Karibu employees and – despite having no direct interest in the cooperatives – I asked for immediate clarifications in this regard. I was informed that all the money needed to pay had not yet been received the salaries, which the public bodies had asked for, and – so I was told – that hopefully everything would be resolved in a reasonable time”, continues the deputy Aboubakar Soumahoro in a dossier.