(Local) Leoluca Orlando, mayor of Palermo, has ordered the local registry office to ignore a new clause in the so-called “decreto sicurezza” that would deny migrants the right to apply for full residency after two-year asylum stays.
Left-wing mayor Orlando argued that the application of Article 13 of Law 132 of the security decree would effectively criminalize certain sections of society. He therefore ordered the suspension of the law in Palermo and informed his registry office to continue to allow everyone to register for residency.
“Ours is not an act of civil disobedience or conscientious objection, but the simple application of the constitutional rights that are guaranteed to all those who live in our country,” Leoluca Orlando, Palermo’s mayor, told Repubblica.
