Muslim candidates divide right in Italian metro vote
VIGEVANO: A local poll in an industrial metro in northern Italy is exposing differences over immigration between governing alliance parties and
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Muslim candidates divide right in Italian metro vote
VIGEVANO: A local poll in an industrial metro in northern Italy is exposing differences over immigration between governing alliance parties and showing how the country's rapidly changing social fabric is shaping politics.
Surrounded by factories and rice paddies, Vigevano is a metro of 62,000 individuals where 15% of the inhabitants is external, including many individuals from Egypt and Romania.
Once a Communist Faction bastion, the metro is held by the League, a far-right junior partner in Italy's ruling alliance whose head Matteo Salvini has stated citizenship should be revoked for second-generation immigrants who commit crimes.
But the League's mayoral nominee, Riccardo Ghia, a jeweller, made headlines last month when he put two Muslim candidates on his list of prospective councillors — with an eye to attracting votes from immigrant communities.
One of the two, Italian-Egyptian Hagar Haggag, 20, stated she had received a slew of insults and threats since her candidacy was announced.
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