The League distances itself from Lollobrigida’s statements on ethnic replacement

The words of Agriculture Minister Francesco Lollobrigida on ethnic substitution continue to create quite a few controversies. And after the declarations of indignation by the opposition, harsh comments also come from the majority itself, on the Lega side. «Minister Lollobrigida spoke really bad words, he got the form wrong and often form is substance. But I do not consider his reasoning on the need to help Italian couples to have more children wrong ». This was stated by the vice president of the Senate Gian Marco Centinaio (Lega), speaking on La7 in the program ‘L’aria che tira’. “I also believe – added Centinaio – 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».

In short, Lollobrigida’s words become a case even within the same majority. Massimiliano Romeo, group leader of the League in the Senate, comments on Lollobrigida’s statements yesterday on ethnic substitution in Agorà on Rai Tre. «You used an expression that undoubtedly lends itself to controversy. We still continue to be interviewed on a daily basis. A word said not in the right, most correct way is enough for controversies to immediately mount ».
What Lollobrigida said
Yesterday, the Minister of Agriculture spoke on the subject of falling birth rates, explaining that to counter it and “to prevent the Italian people from disappearing, we need to help those who want to start a family”, because “we cannot give up on the idea of ​​ethnic replacement” according to which “Italians have fewer children so we replace them with someone else: that’s not the way”. Words that have raised a real storm, “It’s a white supremacist language,” underlined the secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein. “We are at brutal levels,” said Romano Prodi. All the oppositions criticize the sentences of the director of the Brothers of Italy. He today it’s up to the League.