Meloni: “We will remove special protection for immigrants” Democratic Party: “Inhuman”

Italy will remove special protection for immigrants. The confirmation came from Giorgia Meloni during a visit to Ethiopia. “I aim to remove the special protection, because this is additional protection compared to what is happening in the rest of Europe, and I believe Italy has no reason to deviate from the European reference standards,” said the Prime Minister. Italian school ‘Galileo Galilei’ in Addis Ababa.

“There was a proposal that the majority worked on collectively, and I trust that this is the accepted proposal,” said Erdoğan. “This is not an issue on which there are differences of opinion, it is a complex issue. It is normal for various changes to occur in the parliamentary work, but we all agree on the goals we set for ourselves.” . On this issue, we spoke with Lega leader Matteo Salvini “a few weeks ago to see if we were going to work on the amendment as a government initiative or as a parliamentary initiative”, Meloni explained, and eventually “we chose to release the parliamentary groups but there is no fundamental difference of opinion, together He has the will to work.”

Special protection in its current form was established by the Conte 2 government when Salvini changed his immigration decisions. It is awarded to foreigners who do not have refugee status (guaranteed only to those from countries at war) or subsidiary protection (recognised for those who could face torture or the death penalty in their homes), but still at risk of racial persecution. , sexual orientation, religion or political opinion. In 2022, Italy granted 10,865 residence permits for special protection, which is the highest share among all types stipulated by the law, an increase of 5% compared to the previous year. According to the data in the latest report of the Italian Refugee Council Cir, 52,625 international protection requests were examined in Italy in 2022, and 53% were rejected (27,385). Of the applicants, 21% received special protection (10,865), 12% received refugee status (6,161), and 13% (6,770) received subsidiary protection.

Strong criticism of opposition to the government plan. “I believe it’s a shame to try to make the most vulnerable people pay again for this government’s failure to create immigration policies,” said Pd secretary Elly Schlein. “We are absolutely against the compatibility of migration policies with international rights, international conventions on the rights of women refugees, starting with the Geneva Convention, and we will continue to fight in this direction, we have a very clear stance on this issue.”

Meloni’s words “reaffirm that the absurd inhuman anger towards immigrants seeking the cancellation of the special protection agency only serves to cover up the delays and the failure of this government to show a clear travel direction to get our country out of the crisis.” economic difficulties” attacked Francesco Boccia, president of the Pd senators, according to whom “a prime minister, a woman of government, knows very well that it is certainly not private protection that is pushing immigrants on the Italian route”.

Source: Today IT

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