(ANSA) - ROME, APRIL 18 - The Minister of Agriculture and FdI exponent, Francesco Lollobrigida, mentions the "ethnic substitution" and his words become a coincidence.
"We cannot surrender to the idea of ethnic replacement: Italians have fewer children, so we replace them with someone else. That is not the way", he said on the occasion of the Cisal congress, arguing that the drop in the birth rate must be responded to with a "welfare that allows one to work and have a family".
"Disgusting" and "unacceptable" words that "take us back to the 1930s and have the flavor of white supremacy", comments the Secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein.
"I hope that Giorgia Meloni and the government distance themselves from these statements - he concludes - made on the day when President Mattarella is visiting Auschwitz".
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