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Elections 5622: Monaldi backed by the far right surgence

The rise of the Patriotic Front and the Falange shows the widespread feeling among the Istalians towards the Solentian refugees: "we don't want them!"

One of the many refugee camps in the countryside in the north of the Sarrentine Peninsula 

November 5622

ROMULA - The second Government of the now 72-year-old Floria Monaldi took office at Palace Astori, the historic seat of Government, less than three weeks after the elections.

Monaldi was reconfirmed at the helm of the executive thanks to the strong recovery of her party, stably in alliance with the Veterans Party which, totally aligned with FPI after the stabilization of the new political framework, now expresses the positions of the military close to the Minister Secretary of State, and which will support the government together with the Istalian Falange, a party born on the eve of the previous elections to express the most right-wing positions of Monaldi's then entourage, and which, having emerged more independently as a xenophobic and conservative far-right force, has exploited together with Monaldi's coalition the issue that has become central in these elections to increase its numbers.

The significant shift in the vote of the Istalians towards the right, in fact, occurred essentially because of the problem that influenced the vote in general throughout Istalia, but especially in Trivendito and Ferano, the most affected regions, namely the Solentian refugees crisis.

We are talking about over 480 thousand Solentians deliberately brought in en masse and in large numbers during the civil war in Solentia by the Government of the Great Emirate of Quanzar in collaboration with the Government of Kafuristan. Denounced by the Patriotic Front at the beginning of the century when it was still fighting the communist regime, Monaldi Government, riding the wave of widespread sentiment among the Istalians, continued to blame what was indicated as a move of veritable demographic engineering, or the deliberate attempt to permanently settle the Solentians in the country and therefore increase the demographic weight of the Majatrans, to strengthen what many were denouncing as an apartaid regime against the Istalians.

The Falange has found fertile ground in the northern regions of the Peninsula, where resentment towards the authorities of Quanzar and in general towards the Majatran population has reached worrying levels. After the conflict, the Armed Forces first and then the Police Forces had to intervene many times to prevent clashes and reprisals by groups of Istalian extremists against the Majatran population and refugees. The Majatran communities in Istalia, after the conflict, have been marginalized, both by the population and by the authorities, several villages and towns in Trivendito with a Majatran majority have been particularly affected during the last stages of the civil war and little is being done in those areas during the reconstruction, areas that have also become designated points for the accommodation of the Solentians, totally marginalized from the social fabric, with the countryside of northern Sarrentine Peninsula propped up by refugees camps, who are also lodged in mosques, gyms, sports fields, etc...

The army has created health cordons around the refugee camps mainly for their safety but also effectively to isolate them, since it is the government's firm intention to have them repatriated, in line, as mentioned, with the general feeling among the Istalian population.

In Trivendito and Ferrano the demonstrations have multiplied and the common cry is only one: "send them home, we don't want them!"

Very few are the voices advocating in favor of the refugees, and even among the ranks of the Socialist Democratic Party and the Democratic Hosian Union, the largest groups of the opposition, the dominant position is that the Solentian refugees are not welcomed and should be repatriated.

Unfortunately, the relations between the Istalian Government and the Emirate of Solentia are practically non-existent, the Istalian Government of the Imperial State has never recognized the Emirate, and indeed considers it simply a rogue state, a fundamentalist regime who sized a country in disarray, and not even from the Solentian side has there been any recognition.

The majority during the election campaign promised to solve the problem, now that the new government has taken office it will be its priority to address the issue whose solution, the only one contemplated by the Government and actually by most part of the population, is only one: send all refugees back to Solentia or, alternatively, find them a new home elsewhere, but any other solution that contemplates a prolonged stay or any form of settlement is excluded.

To do so, however, it will probably be necessary to involve third parties at the international level to be able to interface with Solentia and therefore resolve the issue once and for all.