Giovanni Toti greets “the first Ligurian girl born in Genoa”, clash with the League: she is not Italian, not Ius soli

Saying goodbye to the first children born in 2021, the President of Liguria wrote on Facebook: “We welcome the first Ligurians born in 2021! Morena was born in La Spezia shortly after midnight, little Louis was born in Imperia and I I arrived from the San Martino hospital. The photo of Greta, first-born in Genoa. You are our hope, our future, the strength not to give up in this new year that has just begun. Welcome to the world, little ones, and best wishes to your families in my name and throughout Liguria. ”

“Anyone born in Liguria is from Liguria” Toti was then forced to intervene by commenting on his own publication: “Racist comments will be eliminated by the moderators of the page. A child who comes into the world is a blessing and should be welcomed as such, without useless and harmful polemics in any debate democratic”. to start 2021 with a new step. “And finally:” Everyone who was born in Liguria is Ligurian. “

The clash with the League The League entered the issue with a straight leg and corrected the Ligurian president. “It is not possible to define Italian, or Ligurian, who was born in our territory of foreign parents. Greetings and welcome to all newborns in Liguria in 2021, but we reiterate that to be Italian and Ligurian it is necessary to undertake a well-defined path and therefore then ask for citizenship, in accordance with current provisions. No to the Ius soli “, stressed the leader of the regional group Stefano Mai.” With the ruling of the Lega in Liguria and, hopefully soon, in Rome – Mai added – it will never happen that The acquisition of Italian citizenship occurs as a simple consequence of the legal fact of being born in Italy. We need to defend our traditions and our identity. Therefore, the transmission to the descendants of the citizenship of the parents, depending on the descent and not the place of birth, it is fundamental ”.