The League distances itself from Lollobrigida: “Wrong, really ugly words on ethnic substitution”

They are “really bad” words, those spoken yesterday by the Melonian minister Francesco Lollobrigida on an alleged risk of “ethnic substitution” to the detriment of the Italians. Even the League says so. The FdI ally claims the toughest possible position on welcoming migrants, but in front of the citation of the conspiracy theory of the ultra-right (in the past also used in its slogans by Matteo Salvini) now it seems to want to stop.

“The League is satisfied with the agreement found on the limitation of special protection in the Cutro decree”, says the Salvini group leader in the Chamber Richard Molinari. “The government’s message is clear: those who enter Italy illegally are not guaranteed to stay there, while we want to save those fleeing wars and those who want to enter through legal channels”. But the Northern League stops when faced with the expression ‘ethnic replacement’: “Would I use it? No, I’ve never used it”.

And again, more explicitly, Gianmarco Centinaiovice president of the Senate and former minister of the League: “Lollobrigida spoke really bad words, he got the form wrong and often the form is substance. But I don’t consider his reasoning on the need to help Italian couples have more children to be wrong. I also believe – adds Hundred to The wind that blows, with another thrust at Lollobrigida – that there is no need for 500,000 immigrants to do some jobs, especially in agriculture. We must rather help Italians to have a fair job, with a fair salary”.

“I would not have said it, the human being deserves respect beyond the color of the skin and everything, there are essential rights”, declares the president of the Sicilian Region, Renato Schifanito Sky Timeline.

The party colleague, the vice president of the Chamber intervenes to defend the minister Fabio Rampelli: “I have known Lollobrigida since he was 15 years old, the accusation leveled against him of “white suprematism” (words of Elly Schlein, ed) is a colossal lie worthy of a lawsuit. My solidarity with him and with the entire government. The left, blinded by the loss of power, by political marginalization and by the confusion of contents, is solely engaged in a sickly war of words. Personal stories or substance in the management of one’s role do not count, look for words on which to unleash futile media storms, often discrediting Italy’s image. They are so happy…”.

The opposition’s reply is very harsh. “It’s in their ‘Ontos’, they grew up politically with the alarm of the black invasion, and their political references were the ones who made the racial laws in Italy against the Jews. Yesterday the Jews – he attacks Angelo Bonelli, national co-spokesman of Green Europe and deputy of Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra – today it’s the turn of those who come from Africa. Speaking of ethnic substitution, Minister Lollobrigida winks at that neo-fascist culture that makes white suprematism the element of action of far-right groups in Italy and Europe. We shouldn’t be surprised – but scandalized yes – by the premier’s silence Giorgia Meloni on the shameful words of Minister Lollobrigida because it is the same humus in which she grew up with him and because she also spoke those words”. “More than talking about ethnic replacement, an ethical replacement would be needed from the parts of Palazzo Chigi and the government” , says the national secretary of the Italian Left Nicola Fratoianni.