Italy: Two MPs to Represent Four Million Immigrants
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The only two immigrants to have been elected to the new Italian parliament, “will have the honour of representing 4 million new citizens living in our country,” Italy’s Immigrant Party president Mustapha Mansouri, said on Tuesday.
Italy’s Association of Moroccan women president Souad Sbai (photo) has been elected an MP for election winner Silvio Berlusconi’s conservative People of Freedom party.
Senegalese born Jean Leonard Touadi, a former Rome city councillor, has been elected an MP for the centre-left Italy of Values party.
Mansouri promised his party’s “full support” saying he hoped “channels of dialogue” would be opened with the anti-immigrant Northern League party.
The Northern League made gains in the election, taking over 8 percent of the vote, almost doubling the 4.5 percent it took in the 2006 polls.
It will have 47 seats in the Chamber of Deputies (the lower house of parliament) and 23 in the Senate (the upper house), according to interior ministry data.
Two other immigrant parliamentary candidates, both fielded by the far left, failed to win seats in Sunday and Monday’s polls.
Frias Merceder Lourdes stood as a leftwing ‘Rainbow’ alliance candidate for the Chamber of Deputies and Khalil Ali, as a senator for the northern Piedmont region.
The ‘Rainbow’ coalition performed abysmally in the election, failing to take a single seat in either house of parliament. Its leader, veteran trade unionist and politician Fausto Bertinotti, has since resigned.
“Veltroni and the left paid a high price for ignoring issues linked to immigration,” said Immigrant Party vice-president Marc Angelelli.
“After making political capital from allowing immigrants to vote in primaries [for the recently formed centre-left Democrat Party led by Walter Veltroni], it then dropped them,” he said.
The Democrat Party drew criticism from immigrants for failing to field a single candidate of foreign origin in the national election.
“As a result, we have fewer representatives of foreign origin in parliament than in the last legislature,” said Angelelli.
“But quality-wise we have improved. Souad Sbai represents much of civil society,” he concluded.
Ahead of the polls, Mansouri commented that the selection of 4 immigrant candidates to represent 4 million citizens was “an absolutely miserable figure.”
(Posted on April 16, 2008)
Comments
Ahead of the polls, Mansouri commented that the selection of 4 immigrant candidates to represent 4 million citizens was “an absolutely miserable figure.”
What they are really saying is that they will keep complaining until they have full control of the government with every slot filled by some third world alien
Posted by Alex at 7:09 PM on April 16
Actually, what’s “miserable” is that there are African immigrants in Italy to begin with.
Posted by at 7:20 PM on April 16
“The Democrat Party drew criticism from immigrants for failing to field a single candidate of foreign origin in the national election. ‘As a result, we have fewer representatives of foreign origin in parliament than in the last legislature,’ said Angelelli.”
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Why should they? This was supposed to be an ITALIAN election!
Posted by at 7:56 PM on April 16
“We have the honour of representing four million new citizens living in our country” ,,, Italy’s immigrant party Mustapha Mansouri ,,,,
How is Italy “HIS” country? How is Italy “THIER” country? Italy is the Italians country! This arrogant ass needs to remember that.
Posted by at 8:29 PM on April 16
“Ahead of the polls, Mansouri commented that the selection of 4 immigrant candidates to represent 4 million citizens was “an absolutely miserable figure.””
Half of these people are EU nationals and the rest are largely Albanian and other Eastern Europeans. It doesn’t seem appropriate to me to field a black African and a Moroccan to speak for these people.
Posted by at 8:36 PM on April 16
Is Souad Sbai half White? She looks Italian to me.
Posted by at 10:14 PM on April 16
As I read the names of the politicians involved in this ITALIAN election I thought I was reading the “Kuwait Times” or some other list of people from Saudi Arabia, it WAS an article about ITALY and its elections right??
Posted by Skip at 2:28 AM on April 17
I voted for the “Lega Nord” and I am glad I did it. They doubled the vote of 2006 because a lot of people are SCARED.
Immigrants are everywhere, they bring crime, drugs, drunk-driving accidents and people feel more and more unsafe.
The best thing of these elections is that the far left, the communists, are out of the parliament. We’ll no longer hear them screaming “this is racist!” or “this immigration law is too tough!” and “oh,we must love the rainbow society!”.
You all shut up now, silenzio!
Posted by Lukino Italy at 11:23 AM on April 17
The fact these people got elected and that there’s 4 million immigrants in Italy is unacceptable.You know I’ve seen on a popular demographics blog where a bunch of professor types sit around reviewing demographics issues. And they sit there, like it’s a game talking about how they can add 30,000 Somalis, to a certain low fertility rate country and talk about switching work forces as if they were a god. They like these people in Italy seem to think human beings are interchangeable and that Italy would still be Italian if it looked like Brazil. Funny thing is, when I brought up this reasoning to these professors on this blog, suddenly my opinion which made things more diverse in terms of opinion wasn’t acceptable.
Posted by RealityCheck at 2:58 PM on April 17
”The best thing of these elections is that the far left, the communists, are out of the parliament. We’ll no longer hear them screaming “this is racist!” or “this immigration law is too tough!” and “oh,we must love the rainbow society!””.
You all shut up now, silenzio!
Posted by Lukino Italy at 11:23 AM on April 17
Well said, Lukino. Like a true Italian patriot. I am also sick of blacks & muslims here in UK continually wanting to change our institutions. It’s incessant. Every day. These globalist elitists are close to pushing white people beyond their breaking point. I wonder which country will be the first to explode. Ordinary white people whose ancestors built & fought for our white nations & civilizations are just cattle to them.
Posted by dr dees brainwashing elixir at 8:02 PM on April 17