Deputy Premier and Transport Minister
Matteo Salvini, the leader of the right-wing League party, has
protested against the case of Buccinasco Mayor Rino Pruiti who
gave elementary school kids a book written by the former leader
of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) and ex-Rome mayor
Walter Veltroni.
"It is very grave for a mayor to go to a school to gift
politically oriented books to 10-year-olds (without their
parents' consent) which talk about, among other things, themes
that should not be discussed in schools", Salvini wrote on
social media, demanding who funded the gift and "for clarity to
be shed" on the case.
Meanwhile MP Rossano Sasso, the League party's whip in the Lower
House's science, culture and education commission, protested
against the initiative promoted by the centre-left mayor of
Buccinasco, slamming it as "indoctrination".
Announcing that he will report the case to the education
ministry, the lawmaker said Veltroni's book, 'La più bella del
mondo' (the most beautiful in the world) "talks about partisan
children, children who reached Italy on migrant boats and
children wearing heels".
"All this is happening unbeknownst to the parents, who have
obviously protested", he said.
Meanwhile the regional school office of Lombardy has opened a
probe into the case, the education ministry said, stressing the
investigation was kickstarted "following reports by some of the
pupils' families".
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