Drastically reduce irregular immigration, strengthen borders, increase repatriations and in some cases challenge Schengen. With this program, the AfD party in Germany achieved a historic result in Saxony-Anhalt, reaching 43.8% and becoming the leading force. This is discussed on “Quarta Repubblica,” an in-depth and current affairs program on Rete 4, hosted by Nicola Porro. The host asks Alessandro Sallusti, editor-in-chief of Libero, what the difference is with the Spanish Vox: “It seems different from AfD to me, but it is also different from Meloni, even though I get along with her, they are not in the same European parliamentary group.”
Sallusti then explains: “But look… Vox and Fratelli d’Italia were born together in the months between 2012 and 2013 and this is perhaps not a coincidence. And they were born by intercepting and trying to fill the same voids that the dominant politics has left and still leaves. Among these, certainly immigration is also one, which is not an obsession of Vox or Fratelli d’Italia, but a real concern of citizens, Spanish, Italian, Norwegian, German.” Then, Sallusti’s attack on the left: “So to say that immigration is a right-wing obsession is to not live in the real world, to not intercept not only perceived fears but also real fears and everything that follows for the people.”
Michele Silenzi, director of LiberiLibri, points to Ceuta as a turning point in the immigration issue in Europe: The Ceuta issue is not marginal or imaginary, we have seen something that will probably remain in history and that has completely changed the way Europe looks at immigration. Seeing that incredible human mass that crosses the barriers and wants to enter Europe completely changes the way we understand and perceive immigration in Europe. And it will also change the narrative of the left. I heard an intervention by De Luca that was very harsh towards immigration, with terms that not even AfD would have used.”
“Vox and Fdi were born together and this is not a coincidence trying to fill the same voids left by dominant politics. To say that immigration is a right-wing obsession means not living in the real world”#Sallusti #quartarepubblica pic.twitter.com/TlxDcknHbn
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