First published at 16:51 UTC on December 14th, 2018.
'Italian Deputy PM Salvini attended the Dublin protest against the Global Compact on Migration' (Ireland)
Fiona O'Leary told PJ Coogan on Cork's 96 FM that the Deputy Prime Minister of Italy, Matteo Salvini, attended the protest…
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'Italian Deputy PM Salvini attended the Dublin protest against the Global Compact on Migration' (Ireland)
Fiona O'Leary told PJ Coogan on Cork's 96 FM that the Deputy Prime Minister of Italy, Matteo Salvini, attended the protest in Dublin against the Irish government's decision to sign the UN's Global Compact on Safe, Regular and Orderly Migration.
Fiona said she was very worried about support for Salvini in Ireland. She said he was a very frightening individual, interested in national pride and that sort of thing. She had seen a photograph of a man at the protest whom she believed was Salvini with a mob. She told Coogan that it was a terrifying sight, like something out of a history book. Fiona wanted to know what he was doing in Ireland waving his fascist flag.
In Italy, Salvini passed the decision on whether to sign the pact to Italian parliament. They voted against signing it.
Hermann Kelly's IREXIT Freedom To Prosper party had organised the protest. Placards were held reading 'Our Land, Our Laws, In Our Lifetime'.
Fiona described the protest in Dublin as one against refugees and people fleeing war-torn countries but the UN's pact seeks to increase legal pathways for economic migrants and penalise criticism of replacement migration as too many migrants were abusing the asylum system in search of a better life. The UN's solution is to create legal pathways for them.
At the beginning of 2018, there were 500,000 failed asylum seekers in Italy, 200,000 had applications pending and only 30,000 were considered to have genuine claims. Matteo Salvini's rise to power can be attributed to his opposition to the abuse in the asylum industry.
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