“These somewhat emphatic tones are explained by the shock, no one expected Alternative for Germany to be above 40 percent”: Gianfranco Fini said this in an interview with Il Fatto Quotidiano, speaking about the overwhelming victory of the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt. The former Speaker of the Chamber then wanted to emphasize that “Nazism has nothing to do with this. In the AfD program there are disgusting things, such as separate classes for the disabled and foreigners. But everything must be contextualized: the vote took place in the smallest Land of Germany, which has great economic and social difficulties.”
The party’s triumph, according to him, is due to the fact that the AfD “promised the citizens of Saxony to give them back an identity. East Germans, despite all the money given to that area, continue to feel like second-class citizens. It was a vote to reclaim identity. The party’s growth was also contributed to by Merkel’s choice to welcome a million Syrian refugees. Praiseworthy, but it was a upheaval, the consequences of which are still being paid.” For Fini, moreover, it would be a mistake to create “a sanitary cordon” around AfD: “You cannot exclude those who have received votes: they must be tested in government, and then it will be understood that remigration makes no sense.”
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On the EU, instead: “It is not true that it got everything wrong, but certainly a slimming down of the European bureaucracy is needed and its architecture must be rewritten. Europe must deal with big issues, not bottle caps” and “in general greater integration is needed, also on the military level, pending a common army.” “We – Fini added – need immigration, demographically and economically. But it must be combined with proper integration, starting from a reflection on political Islam.” When asked what could be Giorgia Meloni‘s key to not being overwhelmed by Roberto Vannacci, assuming she does not want to bring him into the center-right, he replied: “I can reasonably exclude that. Then the issue about Vannacci was raised by the Financial Times: who does he answer to?”. While to the question of how to stop the general, he answered: “Certainly not by chasing him.”
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