(Local) Clashes over migration between Interior Minister Matteo Salvini and Italian mayors continue, with several city mayors now refusing to follow Salvini’s orders.
Leoluca Orlando, mayor of Palermo, has been joined by left-leaning mayors in Naples and Florence who say they will not apply some parts of the decree which they believe to be unconstitutional.
Salvini today demanded the resignations of the rebellious leaders of Florence, Palermo and Naples, with the last escalating the row by also offering to take in migrants stranded at sea that Italy has turned away.
Salvini accused Orlando of civil disobedience yesterday, after the Sicilian mayor ordered Palermo’s registry office to ignore a clause in Salvini’s controversial new security decree that would deny migrants the right to apply for full residency after two-year asylum stays.
