The government of Italy has granted the citizenship to Argentine President Javier Milei due to his Italian family roots. Milei has traveled to the Italian capital to meet with the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloniand to participate in the annual festival of his Brothers of Italy party on Saturday.
The news in the Italian media provoked an angry reaction from some politicians and on social networks from people who They protest the concession of citizenship to Milei when it is difficult to obtain for children of immigrants born in Italy.
Italy’s citizenship laws They are based on blood tiesmeaning that even distant descendants of an Italian citizen can obtain an Italian passport. Instead, hethe requirements for foreigners born in Italy or who emigrate to that country They are much stricter.
Pro-immigrant groups have proposed a referendum to make them more flexible, but Meloni’s right-wing coalition opposes any relaxation.
Riccardo Magi, a lawmaker from the small opposition party +Europe, said granting citizenship to Milei was an act of “intolerable discrimination against so many young people who will only obtain it after many years.
At the end of my visit to Argentina, I received the Palazzo Chigi of the President of the Argentine Republic, @JMilei.
The discussion has become the occasion for the community’s will to strengthen subsequently the solid bilateral partnership, with… pic.twitter.com/jXlVgEVDc5
— Giorgia Meloni (@GiorgiaMeloni) December 13, 2024
During a previous trip to Italy in February, Milei said in a television interview that he felt “75% Italian” since three of his grandparents had Italian origins, and that he has “an incredible passion for Italian opera.”
The libertarian Milei and the conservative Meloni have established a close relationship. When they met in Buenos Aires last month, the Argentine leader presented his Italian guest with a statuette of himself wielding his trademark chainsaw.
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