In the following video, former Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini points out that at the time he left office, there were no NGO migrant-rescue vessels picking up “refugees” in the Mediterranean, and now there are NINE.
Many thanks to FouseSquawk for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
| 00:16 | Vote! Vote! Vote! Vote! Vote! | |
| 00:22 | Vote! Vote! Vote! Vote!… | |
| 00:26 | I must say they have said and written everything these days. | |
| 00:32 | I have kept silent because I know what they taught me | |
| 00:37 | at catechism school, that at the end, | |
| 00:40 | truth emerges victorious. | |
| 00:43 | In any normal country, a fixed date for an election would already be set. | |
| 00:50 | In any normal country. | |
| 01:02 | And it’s true that in a normal country, the prime minister | |
| 01:07 | doesn’t go arm in arm with Merkel asking for advice on what to do in Italy. | |
| 01:24 | …and of that, what makes me proud of being different | |
| 01:29 | when I say, “never” with the PD and the left, | |
| 01:33 | is that I keep my word, and I never [unintelligible] with the PD and the left. | |
| 01:44 | Today the secretary of the PD, Zingaretti, said that | |
| 01:48 | we need to completely change our immigration policies. | |
| 02:04 | A few weeks ago, there were zero NGO ships in the Mediterranean | |
| 02:11 | As of this evening, there are nine NGO ships in the Mediterranean. | |
| 02:38 | …unfortunately, this government that they are trying to create | |
| 02:43 | is not being created in Rome, in Bergamo, in Catania or in Treviso. | |
| 02:47 | This government that is being born is born in Berlin, Paris and Brussels. |