Italy Coalition Partners Clash on Who Gets to Become a Citizen

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s coalition parties are openly clashing over who has the right to become an Italian citizen, interrupting the country’s traditional midsummer lull.

Matteo Salvini’s right-wing League this week attacked Forza Italia, a more centrist coalition party founded by the late Silvio Berlusconi, for supporting an opposition-sponsored measure to allow naturalization for non-citizens who’ve completed most of their education in the country.