With huge increases of support for Italy’s Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini’s Lega party, is it wise for Italian priest Enrico d’Ambrosio to attack them?
During a homily earlier in the week, Father d’Ambrosio lashed out at Italian’s saying, “Those who are not accepting and vote for that party that closes ports also on Christmas Eve are insignificant Christians,” Il Giornale reports.
Populism is on the rise as more and more people are realising that migrants are committing a significant number of violent crimes, including raping children and women and seeing them having precious little consequence for such.
One of the reasons Salvini’s party successfully became part of their coalition government was they listened to what voters wanted and have since kept the promises to do what they asked.
The priest was obviously referring to the NGO Open Arms request, which was rejected by Interior Minister Salvini, to dock with 300+ migrants they had picked up off the coast of Libya.
The priest was not alone in his attack of Salvini over his migrant policy, as Salvini has closed all Italian ports to human trafficking since coming into office.
Salvini has done as the Italian people have voted for him to do and as a result, Italy has seen a rapid decline in new migrant arrivals, going down by 80 per cent compared to the previous year.
Voice of Europe