NL candidate afraid for the future of 'white race'

Attilio Fontana

ROME - Northern League candidate for Governor of Lombardy, Attilio Fontana, has been condemned for making racist comments on Radio Padania, the party’s station, on Sunday.

 "We can not accept all the arriving immigrants: we have to decide whether our ethnicity, our white race, our society must continue to exist or must be eliminated," said the Fontana.

 Previously hailed as a moderate in the League, Fontana, the former mayor of Varese, has apologised for mentioning race.

 Fontana’s rhetoric mirrors that of the far right, the notion of genocide through integration although he promises that the statement was just “a lapse.”

 Many have come out to denounce the candidate’s blunder, such a Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi who said “Fontana is inadequate. He will damage us.”

 Party Leader and Prime Ministerial candidate Matteo Salvini has said that Fontana was correct that there is a Muslim “invasion” and that his party will “regulate every Islamic presence in the country.”

 While there has been a backlash, the reiteration of this rhetoric by the party’s leader evidently shows that the Northern League’s voter base will stand by these words. 

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