Bonaccini says immediate talks on ius scholae with FI

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 23 - Emilia-Romagna Governor and centre-left opposition Democratic Party Chair Stefano Bonaccini on Friday called for "immediate" talks with the ruling centre-right Forza Italia (FI) party on ius scholae amid a push by FI leader and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani to get the foreign minor school citizenship proposal tabled.
    Bonaccini said the PD was "ready" to enter such talks even thugh FI's ruling allies the rightwing League and Premier Giorgia Meloni's rightwing Brothers of Italy (fDI) parties have both come out strongly against the idea of granting citizenship to children of migrants who have completed at least one cycle of school.
    "I greatly appreciated Tajani's words," said Bonaccini, No 2 to PD leader Elly Schelin, adding: "I think that if FI is serious about this, as I hope, there can be a parliamentary majority, cross-party, can find reasons for agreement on ius scholae".
    He also said that the PD's preference would be for ius soli, law of the soil, automatic citizenship fro being born on Italian soil. (ANSA).