Meloni accused of election shift to right following ’shameful’ cap on foreign children in classrooms

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Critics say decree also banning burqa in schools indicates Italian PM running scared ahead of next year’s vote Rights campaigners have accused the Italian government of ramping up divisive rhetoric in an attempt to court far-right voters ahead of next year’s general election following it passed a decree aimed at capping the number of newly arrived migrants in classrooms and banning the burqa and niqab in schools. The report also notes that The prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, who leads the far-right Brothers of Italy party, stated her government had approved what she called “commonsense measures that do not divide but genuinely support to integrate”.

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