An inscription against Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi was made on a wall along the road that connects state road 106 to Cutro where the meeting of the Council of Ministers is scheduled for this afternoon after the sinking of the migrant boat on 26 February which resulted in 72 confirmed deaths.
"Cutro does not defend Piantedosi" is the sentence written, probably at dawn, by unknown persons along the road.
A single decree, "containing urgent provisions on the legal entry flows of foreign workers and the prevention and fight against irregular immigration": this is the name of the
provision on migrants included in the update of the pre-council agenda
, which will meet in the morning at 8.30, in view of the Council of Ministers scheduled for the afternoon in Cutro.
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Iron fist against human traffickers, more effective expulsions, simplification of procedures for those who want to enter Italy legally, extension of the flows decree.
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Take the whole government away to
Cutro
.
To end the controversy and give a "concrete" signal that for the executive it is a priority, a "moral" duty, to avoid other sea tragedies like the one ten days ago off the Calabrian coast.
Giorgia Meloni has chosen to "put her face into it", prepares a "symbolic" gesture to pay homage to the over 70 victims of the shipwreck, and stakes everything on the squeeze on the "traffickers".
While in parallel it carries on the game with Europe on which it seems to be able to count on an unprecedented ally, the Dutchman Mark Rutte, who says he is ready to act in "tandem" with his Italian colleague, so much so that he is also preparing a trip to Africa Together.
But it is in Rome, before Brussels, that the potential pitfalls are gathering.
The premier has to deal with the discontent of the League, which for days has not given up on what for the Brothers of Italy are nothing more than provocations, starting with the pressure on the proposals to restore the security decrees signed by Salvini at the time of the government yellow-green (and already twice, it should be noted, rejected by the Colle).
In the morning the challenge becomes explicit, with the Northern League leader Riccardo Molinari making an appointment with the Brothers of Italy in the commission: "We will see - he says clearly - whether Fdi will vote for them or not".
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But this is not the time, and those decrees are the offspring of another season, the reasoning that is used in the premier's party, which in fact has taken over the management of the immigration dossier to itself.
Meloni would like to keep his cards face down until the CDM, which will be held in the mid-afternoon in the town of Crotone, preceded by an eve of controversy over the transfer of the bodies.
He points to the surprise effect, so much so that he does not initially envisage passing the new decree - or more measures, it is still under discussion - from the preparatory meeting of the pre-council.
A choice that the League would not have liked at all - we cannot, the reasoning, arrive in the CDM without having seen the texts.
So much so that the meeting of the technicians postponed, leaving a few more hours for the offices to refine the measures.
Who will also look at the reception,
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The choice of the government, the most right-wing in Italy's history, could also displace the Democratic Party, which in the meantime signs the popular initiative bill - first signed by Riccardo Magi - to ask to overcome the Bossi-Fini law by enlarging the possibility of residence permits.
The exact opposite of what the League would like which indeed, as Matteo Salvini does, embraces the philosophy of Rishi Sunak and relaunches the British prime minister's migration policies on social media which aim, in particular, not to grant asylum to those who have illegally entered the UK.
At Palazzo Chigi, for the moment, the tension that has arisen in Parliament is not a concern.
Relations between Salvini and Meloni, is the line, are "excellent" and "concrete".
The prime minister is convinced she will succeed on the
ally who badly digested the de facto commissioning of "his" Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi.
At the Viminale, in fact, they refer to Piazza Colonna to get information on the measures.
They will be reviewed to the last.
And certainly there will be a tightening of penalties for traffickers: the words of Pope Francis have made inroads in the executive which for days has no longer spoken of smugglers precisely to shift the accent from refoulement to saving those lives endangered by those who speculate on human trafficking.
There should therefore be the introduction of a new aggravating circumstance in the event of the death of migrants.
But also, by leveraging the agreements already in place with various countries, in particular in North Africa, a regulatory and bureaucratic simplification for those who ask to enter legally, the
