Row over FdI member's migrant tweet

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 2 - A row has erupted in Italy over a tweet on the Calabria migrant shipwreck that has claimed at least 67 lives from a member of Premier Giorgia Meloni's rightwing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party.
    Veteran former conservative daily editor and FdI Lombardy councillor Vittorio Feltri tweeted on the disaster that is feared to have left over 100 dead: "I remind the non-EU migrants of an old Italian saying: leaving is a little like dying. Stay at home".
    Feltri, 79, a former editor of Silvio Berlusconi's Il Giornale daily and an editor of the rightwing Libero daily until he retired two years ago, is known as a waspish conservative commentator and provocateur.
    The centre-left opposition Democratic Party (PD) slammed the tweet with MEP Pina Picierno saying: "I flag up to Premier Meloni that this vile tweet is from one of her members, elected in Lombardy".
    Another PD MEP, Pierfrancesco Majorino, centre-left Lombardy councillor, called Feltri "unhuman and unsuited (for office)".
    (ANSA).