There is controversy over Francesca Donato, the MEP elected with the League who announced a few hours ago that she will leave the party. A “painful” decision taken “after a very long and in-depth reflection” to distance ourselves from the more moderate positions of the League, the “Giorgettian” ones, which are putting Matteo Salvini's most extremist line in the minority.

"My choice - explains Donato on social media, recently ended up in the storm for a question and answer with the daughter of a doctor who died of Covid - has matured after months in which the values in which I firmly believe, those of equality, of freedom individual and human dignity, have been increasingly trampled by the measures taken by the national government, of which the League is a part. Despite the assurances and internal battles of our leader, liberticidal and discriminatory decrees have passed which, in my opinion, are incompatible with the fundamental principles of our legal system ".

Among the "liberticide decrees", the one in favor of extending the Green pass in all public and private work environments, for example, widely supported by the "ministers and governors of the League", headed precisely by the Minister of Economic Development Giancarlo Giorgetti. For Donato it is "a matter of consistency with my values and respect for my constituents but also for my party colleagues, to take a step back and stop being part of them".

He will remain a member of the Identity and Democracy group in the European Parliament "but I will remain out of other party positions in order to be able to carry out my political role in defense of the minority of Italians today labeled as 'no-vax', seriously discriminated against and attacked in our country, and by all those who still believe in the values of our Republican Constitution, which place respect for human rights for all citizens at the center ".

ID: "NO TO PERSONALISMS" - From the group in the European Parliament, however, the group leader Marco Zanni and the head of delegation of the Lega Marco Campomenosi attack her: "Being part of a party means teamwork: when personalities and differences prevail, they are incurable, good Let the roads divide. Let us continue our work and do not give rise to the controversy of those who, after having put the League in a bad light to justify its abandonment, discredit colleagues. In our group there is no room for those who act in this way ", MEPs say.

SALVINI: "BEST WISHES" - Salvini liquidates the matter with a few words: "Who goes, thank him, greet him and best wishes". The leader of the League, pressed by journalists on the sidelines of an electoral meeting in Montepulciano in support of the center-right candidate for the supplementary Tommaso Marrocchesi Marzi, excludes divisions in the party: "I do not comment on fantasies, I comment on reality and reality are bills and taxes".

(Unioneonline / D)

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