Luigi Di Maio lashes out against Silvio Berlusconi but at the same time joins the anti-migrant chorus intoned by the right after the facts of Macerata. The Premier candidate of the 5 Star Movement accuses the leader of Forza Italia of being a "traitor to the homeland" and does so by posting on Facebook the video in which "when he was in government he promised housing and work to all immigrants: watch and spread it". is the call to militants.
Di Maio accuses the former Knight of having "created the social bomb on immigration by bombing Libya, signing the Berlin regulation and doing business on immigrants with the left".
In an interview with Repubblica, the pentastellato leader explains: "Our solutions are in the 20 points of the program: we want to hire 10 new resources to make the procedure for assessing whether a migrant has the right to stay in Italy faster and more efficient, and then stake everything on international cooperation by favoring the stipulation of bilateral agreements with third countries, in order to make repatriation procedures clear and rapid".
Meanwhile, the secretary of the Pd, Matteo Renzi, avoids open confrontation on the issue of immigration, aware that the facts of Macerana are favoring the center-right coalition and above all the Lega in the polls. “It's difficult for us to just say 'racist' – the leader vents to his followers – We have to ponder the message, because otherwise they gain votes in this scheme. And we cannot allow the League to win, nor give them and CasaPound the choice of topics for the electoral campaign. Is it clear to everyone that the risk is that Salvini will arrive after us?”.
Sergio Mattarella, on the other hand, does not hide his concerns about the climate of intolerance: “Italy needs to feel like a community, without distrust. The lack of sense of community leads to distrust, intolerance and sometimes to violence - said the President of the Republic speaking at the Quirinale - I never get tired of emphasizing how our country needs to feel like a community of life in which we are all linked by common lot and in which one lives together with others, not with distrust but with others, living together".
