09 January 2019
"The mayors of three large Italian cities are refusing to obey a controversial anti-immigration law penned by far-right deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, condemning it as unconstitutional."
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See: Italian mayors oppose far-right Salvini’s xenophobic law (EurActiv, link):
"Salvini, also interior minister, on 4 January demanded the resignations of the rebellious leaders of Florence, Palermo and Naples, with the last escalating the row by also offering to take in migrants stranded at sea that Italy has turned away.
“This (law) incites criminality, rather than fighting or preventing it,” Palermo mayor Leoluca Orlando said."
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