• Itaia, Sicily orders the departure of all immigrants from the island "to guarantee security measures"

"Musumeci speaks in a sublime way, with polite but effective rhetoric." The quote belongs to Silvio Berlusconi and is collected, along with others, in an extensive gallery of praise within the well-kept website of the Governor of Sicily. The president of the largest island in the Mediterranean is also a journalist, and although his current dialogue with Rome and Brussels - whom he accused on Sunday "of looking the other way while the island is invaded" - cannot be described as 'courteous' Yes, it has been able to effectively capture the attention of the international press.

Musumeci - 65 and a Catholic by training - grew up in the ranks of the political right in the port city of Catania, in the west of the Italian island. After a period as a member of the National Alliance and a MEP between 1994 and 2009, he joined the fourth Berlusconi government as Undersecretary of State for Labor and Social Policy. After unsuccessfully running for the Presidency of Sicily in 2006 and again in 2012, he was finally elected in November 2017 as head of the conservative Diventerà Bellissima party, supported by a center-right coalition. "Only Sicilians can change Sicily. My task is to get this land out of the quagmire, where my children and grandchildren want to continue living," he says on his website.

The name of the formation that Musumeci founded in 2014 - a year after suffering a personal tragedy when one of his three children died at the age of 30 in strange circumstances - means 'you will become beautiful' and was inspired by a famous statement about the island pronounced by the famous judge Paolo Borsellino , assassinated by the mafia in 1992.

The fight against organized crime is, in addition to one of the central axes of his policy, the cause that Musumeci defends most vehemently. Last February, the highest authority in the Italian region publicly branded former Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner as a "careless and reckless" woman, in addition to demanding "formal apologies", for stating in a statement that Italians would be a "mafia by genetics".

Salvini's 'free man'

Now, his migration crusade against the Giuseppe Conte government has earned him new praise from the Italian right. "A free man who said 'for tomorrow I no longer want an illegal immigrant in Sicily'", the leader of the League, Matteo Salvini highlighted yesterday on Twitter . An applause joined by Forza Italia senator Anna Maria Bernini : "Musumeci's decision is the inevitable consequence of the irresponsibility with which the Interior Ministry has allowed the situation to precipitate, ignoring the alarms and appeals launched for months. by the Sicilian authorities, even after the multiplication of coronavirus outbreaks. If we have reached this level of institutional shock, then the fault lies solely with the national government, a prisoner of the ideology of hospitality and also incapable of making its voice heard in Europe".

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