Italian-Ivorian trade unionist and
labour activist Aboubakar Soumahoro entered parliament as
Italy's only black MP Thursday wearing muddy wellies to recall
the migrant workers he has fought to lift out of slavery.
Soumahoro, 42, was elected on September 25 on a left-green
ticket.
He has been fighting for years to raise the wages and improve
the working and living conditions of the migrant workers who
pick most of Italy's crops, especially in the poorer south of
the country.
Soumahoro tweeted: "I'm wearing these wellington boots, a symbol
of the suffering and hopes of the real Italy that enters
parliament with me in order to legislate, in memory of those who
have died of over-work, those who are discriminated against and
those who are hungry. With our feet in the mud of reality and
our spirits in the sky of hope".
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