The Italian government granted Italian nationality on Saturday, December 14 to Argentine President Javier Milei, currently on an official visit to Rome. If the president, like his sister, are entitled to this naturalization by virtue of their ancestors born in Italy, the speed of the process raises an outcry within the Italian left. Since coming to power, the ultraliberal has become a friend of Giorgia Meloni, the far-right Italian Prime Minister.
Javier Milei is in Rome to meet the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and participating in a festival organized by his far-right party, Fratelli d'Italia. The two leaders established a close relationship. The speed of granting Italian nationality was strongly supported by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and is based on the 1992 law, based on blood law. Javier Miley and his sister Katerina – also his closest political advisor – obtained Italian citizenship, because their grandparents were born in Calabria, reports our correspondent in Rome, Anne Le Nir.
According to the ANSA news agency, their requests had been processed urgently by Rome. But the opposition is especially headstrong against the accelerated procedure. All center-left parties emphasize in particular that many people who are abroad must “ wait years to become Italian by descent ».
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