The former deputy Luis Roberto Lorenzato and the businessman and presenter Marcelo Fragali, TV network!, embark on Monday, 12th, to Roma. They will participate in an emergency meeting with leaders of the two largest parties in the Italian government. The meeting aims to try to reverse parts of the new decree on Italian citizenship under analysis in the Senate.
According to Lorenzato, who has good connections with the Lega party, the priority is to remove from the text the requirement that the applicant be “exclusively an Italian citizen”. “We have already removed the ‘nato in Italia’, now we are going to try to remove the 'exclusively Italian cittadino'”, he said.
Marcelo de Carvalho reportedly canceled the recordings of the program he hosts on RedeTV! to join the mission, given the importance of the issue. A businessman and communicator, he has stood out as an important activist in defense of the Italian community in Brazil and abroad, especially on issues related to maintaining citizenship. jure sanguinis.
“God will help us save the rights of all Italian descendants in the world. I am very hopeful,” Lorenzato said.
The proposal, which is being processed by the Italian Senate's Constitutional Affairs Committee, changes citizenship rules jure sanguinis – that transmitted by right of blood. The aim is to restrict the criteria, directly affecting the descendants of Italians born outside Italy.
Last Thursday (8), the Italian Senate approved a reformulation of the text, removing the requirement that the applicant's ancestor was born in Italy. This was one of the main criticisms of Matteo Salvini's Lega.
With the new agreement between the center-right parties, only ten amendments remain to be voted on. The expectation is that the analysis will be concluded on Tuesday, the 13th. The text could be sent to the plenary the following day.
The Brazilian mission seeks to ensure that the changes do not harm the millions of descendants of Italians spread across the world, especially in South America.
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