Metalworkers, Salvini: “The right to strike is sacrosanct but blocking the ring road is a crime”

"The right to strike and demonstrate is sacrosanct. When you block me and prevent thousands of workers from going to work, to the factory, to the shop, to school, to the hospital, you are doing an injustice to other workers. So everyone can strike, demonstrate, picket, march", but "if you block my ring road, the railway, a road, a hospital, a factory, you are committing a crime. It seems very simple to me". This was said by Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini regarding yesterday's blockade of the ring road in Bologna by metalworkers. Salvini spoke on the sidelines of a Lega initiative on the security decree at Largo Argentina in Rome.

The deputy prime minister of the Northern League also addressed the issue of the third mandate : "When Forza Italia asks for easy citizenship in exchange, the Ius scholae ... what are we talking about! If Forza Italia says in exchange for the third mandate I want this and that, I say we are not at a market".

Salvini continues: "There has just been a referendum in which millions of Italians, even left-wingers, said no: the citizenship law is untouchable. In my opinion we should be even more severe: take away citizenship or residence permits from those who commit crimes in Italy".

For the minister, "the third term gives a citizen the opportunity to choose a good mayor or a good governor. In my opinion it is a shame that Forza Italia is not there but I cannot force someone to do something against their will. I certainly will not change the law on citizenship which is something that Italians do not want".