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.
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