Italian citizenship to Argentina’s President sparks row on migrant discrimination – Occasions of India

ROME: When Argentine President Javier Milei stepped onto the grounds of Giorgia Meloni‘s social gathering pageant at Rome’s Circus Maximus, a conservative truthful that combined vacation and Italy-First vitality, he discovered a skating rink, a Christmas tree and an upbeat, anti-woke crowd. However with the go to, he obtained one thing greater than recordings of Mariah Carey and conferences with Meloni, the prime minister of Italy and a conservative ally. He additionally acquired Italian citizenship.
Milei, whose grandparents emigrated from Italy to Argentina, acquired the citizenship due to his bloodline, Italy’s overseas ministry stated this previous week. The announcement sparked some anger amongst critics of the govt. in Italy, who’ve lengthy opposed Italy’s citizenship legislation for permitting folks with distant Italian ancestry to get an Italian passport, however not granting citizenship to kids of immigrants born in Italy.
“Granting the Italian citizenship to President Milei is yet one more slap within the face to girls and boys who have been born right here or reside right here completely and have been ready for citizenship for years and years, generally with none consequence,” Riccardo Magi, a liberal opposition lawmaker, wrote on X.
Italy would not mechanically grant citizenship to children born in its borders, whether or not or not the mother and father are within the nation legally. Liberals have proposed a referendum to vary the legislation, however Meloni’s govt has resisted it. Milei has repeatedly expressed pleasure in his Italian ancestry, however hasn’t defined why, as a head of state, he would search the citizenship of one other nation.