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rome march fourth twenty eighteen revolution is in the air a new era is beginning in italy the established political parties are reeling the n.t.'s down bushman five star movement and the right wing populists of the reagan north have gained the upper hand the prospect of power had welded these two unequal forces together they intend to rebuild italy and europe to. good flavio do muito thinks that's totally justified he has won a parliament seat in rome for the right and now represents the interests of all those who see italy as a victim of an invasion. of europe is dead he says dead because of its inability to control immigration reform

and nowhere is that more evident than here and his hometown of ventimiglia. they caught up on talking with such attack even a migrants don't want to stay inventing media but move on to france and germany. it's outrageous that it's elise should be left alone with the problem and europe takes none of the responsibility for authentic. ventimiglia on the live good reason coast is the last stop before the french border. it's only a few minutes by train but you can't miss it. some refugees try to walk over the mountains or hide in a car. europe has not been borderless on this border for some time france has set strict controls and does not let migrants in if they're caught they send them back to italy and. that leaves many stranded invent emilia. in the

evening no one wants to show their face while they wait for food on the outskirts of town. volunteers say there were many more refugees here a year ago especially africans now most of them are men from pakistan and bangladesh trying to make their way to great britain. to morrow says the situation has eased since his government stopped refugee ships from mooring in italian ports. until recently they camped out there on mattresses intense and some tellings but now the authorities have stopped that. the local police are now also taking a tougher stance and watching very closely especially when the member of parliament is making his rounds. demurral one thirty percent of the votes in the parliamentary

elections invent the milia he estimates it will rise to forty percent. this party has succeeded in transforming the fear of strangers into votes say political scientists such as marco van bootsy who is researching the phenomenon of populism. immigration is italy he's ten percent on the overall population the perception of they tell us he's twenty five percent which is the highest the highest level throughout western europe and also central and eastern the point is that in the gap between perception and reality thrives populist and establishment boxes. and that's also where member of parliament to move thrives he quickly bonds with his voters at the weekly market for example with dealer giordano danieli and his wife. if they were.

all the frenchmen sarkozy the briton cameron and obama got us into this mess because they wanted to get rid of gadhafi. he was the one who kept the refugees off our backs. but it was given to him and now france and england should take them in and not repeatedly send them back to us. getting it will get done. but such a crisis does not have any simple solutions. and no one knows this better than italy's next prime minister matteo renzi silva led his center left party to a resound in defeat in march. migration or was one of the most important. issues also during my government my view is very simple i don accept to refuse my you money

so first of all we tried to save the people in the city. that is not good the for the boss. and you don't make any friends with it either and certainly not invent a media where many people are angry and bitter. predicator got the italians are no longer a happy people they complain a lot about the high taxes they have to pay there are no jobs and all in all the future looks pretty bleak i call it but instead of getting up and doing something about it right you just ask others for help they have suddenly turned that anger on those who are weaker against the refugees set up when they say but economy your day book a kid one trip in the. normal knows what it's like to feel like an alien she spent the early years of her life in australia where her parents had immigrated perhaps that's why she decided to convert her bar near the train

station into an aide base for migrants even if it had serious consequences. will be a thaw they spat at me. smashed my windows and called me names asking why i was helping the migrants and not the italians so low key for these people have the upper hand today because the government is applauding their slogans. xenophobia and racism being legitimized from above all this is no never happened before in italy with. the locals have long since been avoiding daily use bar. we have yeah we have shoes for children and diapers and toiletries here. and here in the cupboard there's a stock of children's and women's clothes in various sizes.

yet. and i in fact there will be this is where the pension is used to play cards but they don't come here anymore. now the children learn all play here. for this is the been a dream but we don't use it is that anymore now we give italian courses here. on the old table. a fund raising campaign means she can keep going even without guests for another few months anyway. the battle is raging for middle east saul and the populists are exploiting the confusion to sell the citizens on their simple solutions that's what makes them so attractive to in secure voters. the

magic war the in these cases protection they are providing they are they are offering protection protection against economic insecurity protection for all my the immigration the fear of immigration the fear of someone was different from ours and this is a form of protection and they're also offering a kind of political protection protection against their up union they don't want to be governed that they don't want to be to receive instruction from they were peonies to do so from there will be a central bank from the repeal of the commission and they want to get big they want to take back the control. but whereas someone protection from the e.u. others need its protection for example the people who make parma famous hams. karma ham only gets its seal of origin if it is mature here in the mountains forty kilometers south of the city that gives it its name. in autumn

and winter the west wind. wash the solti air from the luxuriant see through the open windows of the curing rooms for the ham is hanging and slowly dries it out a process that can take two or three years the hands are occasionally checked to see whether everything is going to plan. that. many people can't quite believe that to tell you aren't interested in the painstaking production of their most famous family but even at one of the top producers fifty percent of the workforce comes from africa. ferrari sells two hundred thousand high quality palm hams every year it's confident that brussels will continue to defend its protected designation of origin against

counterfeiters and copiers but even here there's now an air of uncertainty because nobody really knows what consequences the government's anti e.u. stance put in. their grocery thought this is for good until now we felt the e.u. was doing a good job protecting us but we don't know if it will stay that way with a new government we are constantly fighting against people who want to copy our products but we producers are medium sized companies and can hardly defend ourselves against them without the only use held appeal on. italy first is leg a solution but it first glance there's not a lot of room for compromise or consensus. that's what good. thinks he's also active in the parma ham industry but a little further down the processing chain cola nelly is a pig farmer. he

sells twenty thousand young pigs every year which. in fact and up to at least one hundred forty kilos the weight laid down in the rules governing the making of parma ham. he thinks the e.u. too often follows the motto italy last. but camouflaged. politicians have always humbly gone cap in hand to europe. and very often they want even at the table when things that concern them were being decided by the mark. but without a new government it's going to be different from the fuck. up you know. the expensive euro has destroyed italy's agriculture he says it has to import too much meat and grain the amount of arable land is shrinking and the farmers aren't

earning enough gold in l.a. wants to change all that not here in his pig farm of course but in the italian parliament in rome. can. go in l.a. is an impi for the link and loyal to party leader much tail savini. it's pretty clear as his cap shows that he wants to see me as prime minister he and his party colleagues already have concrete plans for the european elections in may. well go. back into the not to live together with our allies in france germany and austria will change europe into a europe of solidarity and democracy. that it will actually be about the well being of the population and about jobs not just about regulations and austerity programs imposed from above as has been the case so far. to get the hell out of the mounting christiane and he really has it it's not just the populists the opposition also

sees a great need for reform in the e.u. a very important think is that now could keno with the traditional idea of europe. change in europe exactly force a vague europe this is the challenge five star movement. lega want to destroy up. but many think the rise of populists in italy is unstoppable. the failure of the established parties was one reason for their success for example in tuscany in pisa.

of course everyone knows the leaning tower there. but not many people know this tower which may be upright but stands in an area where a lot of things are going wrong. this is a working class district of mainly social housing where the sidewalks are crumbling and with them confidence in the system. a better thought that they they voted for the social democrats and communists here for seventy three years but people just weren't happy any more green the normal way that's now we have taken over the district and want to work with the residents to do everything better. is just. starting with clearing up the leaves leg activists such as simona beer in delhi and his wife were often seen around this social flashpoint and gave people a feeling that they were finally being listened to even in deep red tuscany the populists managed to push between the established parties and the people.

they study or thought the political cost the legacies recipe for success was to really take care of people and stay in touch with them that the representatives of the old government never thought it was a. susteren why should they have always only bothered about the city center and historical town if it's on the. way and the like a does take care of the people for example of the lady who approaches us on the bridge she has repeatedly complained about the condition of the sidewalks as the beer in delhi is no i might have enough i could let you know it's all crap old and rotten what exactly do you mean the condition if the root of the lantern is. yes my goodness the street the lights it's all crap nothing works. nobody ever took care of it. it's only now that things are changing no money my family waited for something to happen for fifty years and they did nothing i've had enough of this.

that it's that nothing. you really don't have to go far to find outbursts of voter anger in this working class district of pisa. in the evening disappointed old leftists vent their spleen a lot but i know he did as a socialist to get lost they betrayed the working class and what was the result now we have poverty and unemployment regard here are abused they just passed laws without consulting the citizens. who live off. the street this guy you see is the worst they should send him and the other functionaries straight to siberia without trial you'll be. the target of their anger sees no reason for self-criticism but mancini's a counterattack instead. this is not the people and

supported my ass for her to create the referee is in italy so these people was aghast the lab will mark a cross for a mission people will continue to. from the last the left is the best friend of the right there are the best from the salvini because they support the victory feister movement of something. and while the left keeps tearing itself apart others march to the right. for example in question on another municipality near. the city which has forty five thousand inhabitants as elected a mayor from the lagos. suzanna jakarta he was twenty nine years old when she dropped out of law school to fight the left and the migrants.

would all. the defended if you today even left wing as vote for the lanka because we look to work housing and social welfare often left with around the handout public money to migrants that get us a nice set up the city should that and they are limited at. the fact that she takes the slogan attalia as first literally can be seen from this residential building decorated in the country's national colors its new tenants are grateful to her and expected to express their gratitude before the t.v. cameras you know that the law thanks to the city council i can live here now without them i'd be sitting on the street. and that's really something. we're still at the look at that. the house used to be a refugee shelter but the refugees have now been moved elsewhere the mayor says. listen to me to him i defy the army of course i'm talking about italians first if you get into trouble we have to help you get back on your feet and find

a job no you don't have them and so she drums up a few convinced legace of quarters one is andre baroni who grew up near frankfurt he was a stage technician at the local theater but that closed for lack of my. i do the nice italian food here social welfare here in italy doesn't help you at all . give you one hundred euros every three four five six months six more not every now and then they give you one hundred euros and you have to make do with that. and how much did the liga give you. the leg didn't give me any cash. but they arranged a bed and breakfast for me. they didn't just leave me on the street. and now there's this house and from here i can start again yes this is hope

for you coming if you don't follow. which occurred and lego boss and interior minister matteo salvini appeared social media and some sort of glamour couple on the right. because for the lioness because she knows how to defend herself with words and with pepper spray. her national breakthrough came when she tore a priest apart on television after he had carelessly posted a swimming trip with asylum seekers on facebook i don't like the without looking i created amazon there finished. what others thought i'm kelly would be so i get other working out on the net and do you have any idea how much these sorts of tricks cost us we pay four and a half billion euros for these people money we could use much better for our unemployment the money should be invested in infrastructure and real jobs not in

welfare do you understand that they are ruining our country you know now. what father must do more be on call and he neither understands how a visit to a swimming pool can destroy italy nor does he want to. he houses one hundred thirty africans in his church in post story forty kilometers north of pisa. the cleric wanted to ask for understanding on the talk show but it turned into a fiasco. to have a reporter on office to whatever the mayor just asked ridiculous questions that showed that she had no idea about migration. and i was forced to conclude that you just can't convince these people with. a trip or are beyond it to change this woman's mind you'd have to change her d.n.a. if you want to or need to read through. the book at me you know how.

to deal nazis have stormed his church services to intimidate him and the police and fire brigade are always turning up to check on something. or other mossimo says it shows how poisonous the climate in the country has become. the lake is message of hatred has now permeated italy from the alps to sicily i think anyone who helps migrants is harming italy and should be persecuted. the liberal. migrants have been blamed for everything that's gone wrong in italy in recent weeks with. with this is great an enormous tailwind for the right wing populist or stuff and allow them to turn a small regional movement into a nationwide power or i mean. and they are not about to give up this power quickly in march the leggo won eighteen percent of the vote pollsters

now say it's at well over thirty five percent nationwide and. that's also down to its stars including mayor says onitsha carty yet many already see her as the next regional president of tuscany or as a minister in rome. can i have you mean yeah they made up hundreds of thousands of migrants especially young men coming to our country and bringing a different culture and different value. of a habit with a view to those who say it doesn't and they usually have no idea do gooders like this cleric bringing misfortune on our country on the other. in st mary's church and there's a small crypt where done massimo's proteges retreat when they want to make music. no more racism they sing all people are equal no matter what their skin color.

there were times when the vast majority of would have identified with that sentiment. isn't the only one who believes those days are now gone. the worst thing is that we're dealing with politicians who understand absolutely nothing about migration and it's causes us that just not capable of it unfortunately not only in italy nobody in. europe has an answer either that's right . and there seems to be little hope that anything will change soon i think we are on the eve of a huge political great loss for the nation we are facing a process of transformation the old the twenty one thousand centaury party politics is losing reaps on politics is losing groups and society through how to europe about the need to lead this process he's absolutely you just he's absolutely high

for the first time since nineteen forty five they might jory. voted for and to establishment a known mainstream political party our problem is the divisions between our consults that that is the body that we need a process of unification of italy exactly as the process of germany we haven't fortunately a war luxury between not the south but these are all not. we the brics but the difference and the gab is all very i also today this is our problem. the country is also politically split the leg a stronghold is in the north where is the five star movement has more support in the south in places like closer to thirty five kilometers north of naples.

considered a star shone particularly bright in the eighteenth century when the boer bombs built one of the world's largest castles here and italian rival to versailles. but because they're just glory days are long gone. on the contrary the city is in a deplorable state of decay and some. things stink to high heaven the toxic waste for example. the mafia illegally buried hundreds of tons of food on the outskirts of the city contaminating the soil and the wells and making people ill but nobody was really bothered at least not the politicians until the five stars came on the scene. this huge site in the center of the city was a barracks before it fell into rack and ruin and was closed off to the public the

five star movement wants to turn it into a park. for them in our working basis is direct democracy the citizens should actively participate in the design of their environment that everything is open and accessible to everyone we are like the other party yes they do deals behind closed doors. but it doesn't mean that. anyone can come when the local five star so she asian meets once a week for consultations. but you won't find the national budget to euro or problems with brussels only agenda here other questions are more pressing. why don't our buses ever run on time why aren't the trash cans integrated or laid out the five star movement policies are first and foremost a local. level. that. but they also have policy goals that go way beyond fixing potholes and cleaning up the air higher pensions

a basic income rapprochement with russia. even pulling out of the euro if need be. we're not interested in being reelected at any price. we will as is the case with our pocket continue the struggle inside and outside the institutions but over the next five years even if we're not reelected the people's will is the only thing that matters to us if not the election camp. if i shall not was soon the top of all obviously. it's nine forty five sunday morning and the chartered bus is packed today is an important one in the five star calendar once a year activists from all over the country gather in rome. it's a motley crew including students a construction worker the cardiologist and the owner of a laundry. they are all united in the belief that something finally has to

change and that nothing will if they do not take action themselves. that good problem with our political class has always been in opposition they promised everyone potatoes is available but it's still and when they got into power everyone only got grass again on the window and we're going to change that now. if you do that but mainly men decide if people i mean really fell in love with the five stars because i think you can really trust them unlike the established parties before the always just made promises and not delivered on them agenda get permitted on the go to know that the light means that your young voters youth so far our governments and elites have always wanted a country unsuspecting sheep but only well informed citizens can be responsible citizens to believe. that is why i voted for the five star movement because now i can find out directly from my m.p.'s and senators what they are doing for me and

for my little daughter close association look at me because the next generation is the future of italy it's flew to be the obvious based. on the coach from because santa has arrived at circus maximus in rome and everyone now has ample opportunity to talk to the deputy. the movement has gathered its supporters from all over the country in the arena where the ancient. romans used to watch chariot races. at. the organizers say one hundred thousand people are here although that figure seems a little exaggerated but many are still inspired by their success in the march elections when they became part of the strongest political force in italy. the atmosphere is somewhere between an open air concert and a religious convention. the five star movement's most important minister predicts

a rosy future. we need let me audition over twenty nine thousand will be the year of great change nothing will get through the european parliament without us. mail cut through but the future doesn't actually look that rosy at all the surveys put five star support at just twenty five percent of the electorate way behind and much more aggressively goes thirty five percent but they still have two hundred thirty m.p.'s all wearing yellow t. shirts today so that everyone can easily identify them if they got ideological awful awful awful awful that if. the m.p. from caserio also mixes with his supporters. he's a politically active primary school teacher and says he would never have gotten this far without the five star movement. opened in league at the beginning posts in

the south of italy have always been bought by the mafia of industrialists banks and insurance companies. it was never possible to get involved in politics as a normal citizen or even make it to parliament without getting your hands dirty it will stop the everybody pheno a. cub one of his constituents comes to him with her problems the tax office once money from her and her husband is violent can rasi help her tough. i. know but just then a few rather determined gentleman appear out of nowhere and stop any further interviews in recordings perhaps the movement is not quite as open and citizen oriented as it says it is the town was over to settle it they prefer no cameras perhaps that's because the biggest and brightest of the five stars doesn't like to be filmed. suddenly a nearby public street turns into

a high security area that the free world of people. here comes a bit they grill doesn't like the press and now has the power of the state on his side. others so minister himself announces the keynote speaker as the father of us all. but real actually behaves less like a father then an embarrassing uncle although that is exactly what his supporters expect from him the seventy year old bellows and barks and begs and insult everyone and everything the person referred to produce just look at he is that what you're supposed to fear those little old men like you i just want to be staggering about him limping and talking about europe what's all this crap about reading it that these people belong in an old people's home where they can rest we have nothing to do with. the obviously very greedy freddy our federal treasury video.

released and when europe puts italy under pressure because of its national debt then this blustering former comedian turned political clown has plenty of poisoned arrows in his quiver. against germany for example. no doubt yet if you probably read out you don't have to be afraid any more. debt think of germany. and the german. language the word short has two meanings the words to the future are not only monitoring debt but also barrels are killed and things inside of your arms are going to the river i think but i'm not to blame for any of our debts you know if anyone is responsible for the debt then it's germany which was supposed to repay its war debts by nine hundred fifty three but it didn't and they come up only because they didn't repay them if they had been as poor as calabria is now thirty

five yes you know senator. it's not immediately apparent why so many people worship this rabble rouser. reading order miami mario is a symbolic figure and the most important man in our movement because he's made us embrace his ideas the help form that has given us the strength to imagine another italy a couple of one quite different from what we've known before so that when we still feel the love. but i'm imagining a different italy it actually takes a lot of energy which is epic comes from. in the south of sicily who is known mainly for the mafia and the galloping decay. it has about thirty thousand inhabitants but anyone who can move away from there. giuseppi and electronic shop owner stayed the five stars took seventy percent of

the vote here and hold the mayor's post a picture at the entrance to the town hall recalls the collapse of a house where two children died a few years ago it was a tragedy that could happen again at any time. during this. budget. cutters town center is crumbling whereas once only the men of the family moved away to find work elsewhere today. whole families are leaving. but just happy didn't leave the reason he stayed has to do with an old fountain in history when it was becoming more and more of a ruin until he and a few of his neighbors took matters into their own hands.

up to this is that we finally renovated it ourselves and handed it over to the city . i would like to repeat this model everywhere. so i said if each one of us takes heart and does something good for the community. then we can make the impossible possible to reassure. the town's mayor who was also young and inexperienced when she took on the job also relies on such a sense of citizenship she has a lot of idealism and ideas but has little tend to pull success so far. they want to get the first thing i had to deal with explain to the people that we are broke and forty one million euros in debt and yet i still want to trying to build a city with living it especially for the children where you can live in peace and this is the hope that is driving us to really make a lasting difference here that people that come get out of it all it's up to us. now there is children's playground equipment in front of the town hall and other

bigger investments are planned although nobody knows where the money is supposed to come from they're hoping the e.u. will help out but it doesn't really matter where they get the funding nor will they just need more and they need it fast the voters' tolerance for unfulfilled promises is extremely low. there are differing opinions as to how to deal with the populists in italy and here. we are living a process of this through duration of the old politics. and we are facing a process of really struck to ration the rebuilding of the new party system but this is not an easy task it will require years in some cases or so they could use some i am really confident about. populism we show very soon the incapacity and inability we did new government everything. seems to stop. but it really is

a counter breach of fantasy and that one all seems the girl was we have something or change. well in favaro things could hardly get any worse. notary and art collector andrea bartoli also left but then came back with his family and an ambitious plan to turn this sand heap of rubble into a living breathing city again. we make a problem as a charter we will do our best to change our life to allow our daughters. to grow you have better cd and to do our best to change this city. and so in the dilapidated old town

a shining and colorful away says of modern art has now blossomed. they bought or least houses slated for demolition and turned them into a bastion of culture in the heart of the violence with the name farm culture park. you can easily imagine their neighbors amazement back then but no one surprised anymore anger because the culture park is really the best thing that's happened to the ailing town in decades because what always started eighty years ago all people even our or rather that said you come to this it's impossible you can bring. in for any kind of change this city with the arts they were wrong. the culture parks reputation has long since bred abroad international artists exhibit their works here. attracting one hundred twenty thousand visitors

a year this is hotels are busy and it needs more restaurants at long last things are happening again a photo exhibition about detroit is currently on display it's quite apt detroit is another city facing disaster one that needs to find the courage to see things not as they are but as they could be. but. we will have a new. color shills for the. citizen will be but so will you for it we'll be able to have a more cold feet on the wall cautious people. more cautious citizens and we will have even that different. political class. perhaps from fara is a role model or at least

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