The Open Arms forces a political crisis | Crisis…

The Open Arms NGO again demanded the "immediate" landing of the 134 people left in one of its ships off the island of Lampedusa, despite the Italian government's persistent refusal to accept emigrants on its territory. "The situation on board is unsustainable Suicide threats Reports of violence All people are physically and psychologically broken up, and they must be evacuated immediately," the organization said. social networks, at the end of the day. fifteen at sea for most shipwrecked.

But Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has called the NGO's claim a "lie". It was based on a note made by the newspaper La Stampa to the head of the Medical Center Lampedusa, to which the first thirteen landed were taken. Dr. Francesco Cascio stated that "they had no pathology" except for one case of otitis. "We are facing the nth caught in the hair of the Spanish NGO," Salvini concluded.

The ship Open Arms was anchored one kilometer from the island's port in southern Sicily, the closest point to Europe in Europe. They were able to approach so much after a court had declared Salvini's invalid order, as Minister of the Interior, prohibiting the entry of shipwrecked vessels into the waters. Italian sovereigns. But the minister then banned these ships from entering the port, so that the one of the NGO is in sight of land, without being able to disembark.

Up to now, only fourteen shipwrecks have been landed for medical reasons, including four at dawn on Friday. Open Arms even managed to convince the juvenile prosecutor of Palermo, Sicily, to badign guardians to all the miners on board. But they did not let them off because "the bureaucracy slows the procedure" to arrive safely. At the same time, the Agrigento justice has opened an investigation for "abduction of people" alleged as a result of a request from the lawyers of the NGO that had taken refuge in the decision of Wednesday leaving without effect the decree Salvini prohibiting their entry in the territorial waters. On Friday, the Interior Ministry also announced that it was challenging the court's decision that had canceled its anti-immigration measure.

This immigrant crisis has finished dividing the fragile coalition government in which Salvini is number two. The head of the xenophobic and formerly separatist League has asked Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte a vote of mistrust, considering winning and taking the government. Along the way, he fought with the other government partners, the Five Star Movement, which took steps to help immigrants. On Friday, the opposition Democratic Party, the main force of the center-left, entered the arena, warning that it did not rule out the possibility of forming a government with Conté and the Five Stars.

The leader of the group of Democratic deputies, Graziano del Rio, felt that there should be "a written agreement, as in Germany between CDU and SPD" between his strength and the Five Stars. "We sit down, that is to say that we badyze each point for the good of the country, summoning the best brains, to give a different impression." Until now, this country was obsessed with problems that had not been good, such as immigration, "he said. Of the river.

Next week, the Italian Senate will badyze the League's proposed dismissal of Conte, which, if advanced, would mean the end of the joint mandate between the right-wing force and the Five Stars that began in June 2018. The League seeks to accelerate the fall of power. Conté to go to the elections "quickly" in which his leader and who heads all the polls, the current Deputy Prime Minister Salvini, may be candidate for the post of prime minister at the head of an alliance with d & # 39; 39, other groups on the right.

Whatever the case may be, in the event that the Senate guarantees the withdrawal of Conte's confidence, it would be President Sergio Mattarella who should badyze the steps to be taken, which could range from the calling of elections to the commission to the current prime minister to form a "bis" government, which could be based on a majority between the PD and the M5E