Matteo Salvini , the leader of the ultra-right League , is campaigning, with polls very much in favor, although it is still unknown if there will be an electoral advance in Italy. And that explains in part why he is acting so inhuman and so fierce with the Open Arms . Salvini knows that having become the great champion against illegal immigration gives him many votes. Hence, even the failure of a court that has allowed the Spanish NGO ship with 147 migrants on board to access Italian jurisdictional waters to land in Lampedusa will stop it from continuing to hinder the docking of Open Arms in a port.

But Salvini is also acting with a Machiavellian cunning. Faced with a challenge as complex as that of migratory flows, with the arrival of tens of thousands of people a year to the EU countries of the Mediterranean basin, this particular humanitarian drama is just a drop in the ocean. But it has been focusing the attention of European public opinion for 14 days . And that is going well for Salvini to strengthen his firm profile before his electorate and to have reopened the nth crisis in an EU in low hours. The unfortunate image of uncoordination and inability to move forward in a common migration policy of the Twenty-eight gives arguments to the anti - European populists - from left or right - like Salvini.

Since the leader of the League announced a motion of censure against Prime Minister Conte to force elections in the fall, the coalition government between the extreme right and the left-wing anti-system of the 5 Star Movement is broken. And the management on the reception of the Open Arms has triggered even more the tension between the two antagonistic formations that cohabit in an impossible Executive . Conte exploded yesterday against Salvini accusing him of intolerable "disloyalty" for ignoring the efforts that Rome has made to get the EU involved in a coordinated and supportive solution. At least six countries, including Spain, have agreed to host quotas of migrants aboard the Open Arms .

The Government of Sanchez has exercised its responsibility by not accepting that our country became the final destination of the ship, since, as Maritime Law marks, it was the countries on whose coast it was the ones that should offer a safe harbor as forced help . The problem with Moncloa is that its immigration policy is not credible. The demagogic goodism with which Sanchez premiered in the Government -recall the Aquarius-, and that with such frivolity stirred in the opposition, has become like a boomerang, and makes it easy prey for the pressures of NGOs and groups of left In addition, the lack of decision to explain the realistic policy that is being developed now also does not help citizens understand the steps they take.

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