The retired civil servant Pasquale Matafora expressed opposition to the new legislation. which centralizes the Italian citizenship processes in RomeThe measure was approved last week by the Italian parliament.
Matafora served for more than 30 years in Italian Embassy in Brasilia and is intimately familiar with the administrative structure of the agency.
Having lived in Brazil since the 1980s, he entered the Italian civil service through a competitive examination and is recognized as having a deep understanding of the reality of the Italian community in the country.
For Matafora, the shortcomings of the consular offices do not justify the change. “Administrative incapacity of the consulates can in no way be an alibi for limiting a fundamental right. It would be like saying: I don't have shoes, therefore I'm going to cut off my feet,” he stated.
The expert emphasized that consular fees generate sufficient resources for the sector. According to him, the Committee of Italians Abroad (Committees) and the General Council of Italians Abroad (CGIE) They demand financial transparency from the General Directorate for Italians Abroad. (DGIT), without getting a response.
Matafora classified the centralization as a constitutional violation in practice. "The constitutional violation in practice is more than evident; the cases of residents abroad will, in practice, be handled at the whim of the central office," he warned.
He expressed concern about the treatment that will be given to residents abroad by the central office in the Italian capital.
“The accumulation of paper-based processes will be a reflection of yet another shameful discrimination,” declared the former civil servant. He recalled that, in a previous period, the transcription of his son's birth by the Comune di Roma took almost 18 years. “They already tried to centralize the transcriptions in Rome once, and that didn't work out very well,” he said.
Matafora's perception is that the measure aims to discourage access to the right. He points out that the growth of the Italian diaspora could conflict with other international powers and influences.
The former civil servant also criticized the current narrative on the subject. "Public opinion is systematically manipulated with news of fraudulent citizenship applications and led to believe that those who work with citizenship services are criminal gangs," he said.
Matafora concluded by stating that this strategy distances society from the truth about the process. He ended his analysis with the Latin expression... “mala tempore currunt”, indicating that bad times are coming.
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