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The 'orange vests' in Italy, who are considered "cousins" of the "yellow vests" of France and who are a new movement, still a minority, denying the existence of the coronavirus, will demonstrate today in Rome to call for an end to the current one Giuseppe Conte government.

The movement is led by a 73-year-old former carabinero named Antonio Pappalardo who, among other things, considers COVID-19 "a hoax to control the people", and defends Italy's departure from the European Union , the return to the lira, the elimination of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and that Italy elects a new Government.

The 'orange vests' are now in the information pillory after they organized two demonstrations in Milan and Rome last Saturday , in which their participants came with cries like "freedom" and "dignity", without masks and without respecting the distance security of at least one meter between people to avoid contagions, at a time when the country is trying to control the transmission curve.

At these rallies, they asked, just as they will do today in the Italian capital, the end of the government led by Giuseppe Conte and the beginning of a new one, with a constituent assembly to approve a new electoral law and a return to the Italian lira .

The protest in Rome on Tuesday will take place hours later and in the same Piazza del Popolo where the demonstration of the right-wing parties, led by the far-right League, against the Executive started this morning, despite the fact that they are still prohibited in the country the crowds.

Giorgia Meloni, leader of the ultra-nationalist formation Brothers of Italy, has marked distances this Tuesday with the 'orange vests' in an interview in the newspaper "Repubblica": "It is another movement, another demonstration", he said, although he admitted that he understood people's discomfort .

Pappalardo, who directs these 'orange vests', is a particular character and in a recent interview with the newspaper "Corriere" he left some pearls like that the coronavirus is an invention to subdue the peoples and establish a new world order, that the masks They are harmful and you don't believe in vaccines.

He said that he is "one of the best musicians in the world" and that his works have sounded "in places where only Mozart and Beethoven had played", but also that in the Vatican he is considered "a genius enlightened by God".

The journalist Claudio Cerasa, author of books like "Le catene della sinistra" ("The chains on the left") underlines this Tuesday in the newspaper "Il Foglio" that currently the 'orange vests' are in the minority, but warns that they are not He must underestimate them because there is a danger that his populist speeches will go from being "a meeting of four idiots" to "a mass movement".

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