The decision causes discomfort among politicians and residents of the European country, considering it unfair.
▲ The heads of state of both countries after the meeting they held at the Chigi Palace in Rome.Photo Ap
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La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, December 14, 2024, p. 18
Rome. The Italian government yesterday granted citizenship to the president of Argentina, Javier Milei, because of his family rootsa source close to the matter informed the Reuters agency, within the framework of a visit by the far-right president to Rome, where he met with the prime minister of that nation, Giorgia Meloni.
In addition, the South American president will attend the Atreju Youth Festival, of the far-right Brothers of Italy (FDI) party.
Meanwhile, the news spread in the Italian media caused the discomfort of some politicians and on social networks users protested the granting of nationality to Milei, since it is difficult to obtain such recognition for the children of migrants born in Italy.
The laws regarding the subject in that nation are based on blood ties, which means that even distant descendants of an Italian citizen can obtain a passport.
On the other hand, the requirements for foreigners born in Italy or who emigrate to that territory are much stricter. Pro-migrant groups have proposed a referendum to make them more flexible, but Meloni’s right-wing coalition opposes any modification.
During Milei’s meeting with Meloni, within the framework of a brief official visit, the leaders analyzed the bilateral relations of their respective countries, three weeks before the prime minister makes her first official trip to Buenos Aires.
On his eighteenth trip abroad since taking office a year ago, the Argentine president also met with representatives of the Anglo-Australian mining company Río Tinto, in what was his first activity after arriving in the European State.
Likewise, the South American head of government also received the Milton Friedman Prize at the Wedekind Palace, which commemorates the American economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1976.
Today, the president will give an interview to the Fourth Republic television program and will speak at the Atreju youth festival, organized by the FDI political party that Meloni founded, and which will take place until December 15 at the Circus Maximus in Rome.
From Italy, Milei considered invalid a session led the day before in the Senate by the vice president, Victoria Villarruel, during which one of its members, Edgardo Kueider, detained in Paraguay for crossing the border with Brazil with more than 200 thousand, was removed. undeclared dollars.
On another issue, the Argentine Foreign Ministry and the Argentine Ministry of Security rejected in a joint statement the alleged arrest of a gendarme when he was trying to enter Venezuela to visit his family, in an episode that represents a new escalation in tensions between the two countries.