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Salvini not xenophobic or racist, says PM

22 ottobre 2018 | 16.20
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Salvini not xenophobic or racist, says PM

Italy's prime minister Giuseppe Conte on Monday defended anti-migrant interior minister Matteo Salvini, who leads the far-right League party, rejecting accusations that he was racist or xenophobic.

"I often meet Salvini and exchange ideas. He's been called a racist and xenophobe but I have never encountered a trace of this," Conte told reporters at the Foreign Press Association in Rome.

"The truth is that there has been a change in immigration policy. But the security degree not abolish the right to asylum or international protection," Conte went on.

Conte was referring to decree issued by the populist government in early October, which toughens the rules for refugees and asylum-seekers and has been widely criticised on human rights grounds.

Dubbed the 'Salvini decree', the measures must be voted into law by the Italian parliament with 60 days.

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