Salvini met with deputies Eduardo Bolsonaro (PSL) and Roberto Lorenzato (Lega)
In a live broadcast on Facebook, this Friday (19), Italy's vice-premier and interior minister, Matteo Salvini, said that the only immigrants that interest Italy are those of Italian descent in the world, mainly citing Brazilians.
Salvini met with federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (PSL), son of President Jair Bolsonaro, and with deputy Roberto Lorenzato, from the Italian parliament and from the same party as Salvini, Lega.
In the role of interviewer, Eduardo – who is president of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Chamber of Deputies – wanted to know from the Italian leader what Brazilians can expect on the topic of dual citizenship.
“We defend Italian borders to talk about the immigration that interests us, which is the descendants of Italians in the world, in Brazil, Argentina and Europe. Who are close culturally and historically, by religion, by the way of thinking, of working. Now, with the borders closed to illegal migration, we hope to reopen them to positive immigration for siblings,” said Salvini.
The Italian community in Brazil has around 30 million Brazilians.
This is the second time in less than a month that the Italian vice-premier has defended citizenship jus sanguinis, that is, by right of blood. At the end of March he said that “the citizenship law is great like that".
In the video lasting just over seven minutes, Salvini, Eduardo and Lorenzato also spoke about the European elections, the arrest of terrorist Cesare Battisti, immigration and the recently approved law in Italy on self-defense that makes gun ownership more flexible.
Eduardo's visit to Italy is part of a tour of Europe that included a trip to Hungary.
