Citizenship of Jamil Chad Bolsonaro’s children is being debated in the Italian Parliament 25/11/2022 17h13

At the plenary session of the House of Representatives in Rome this morning, the Italian government announced that Senator Flávio Bolsonaro and his Deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro want to join the waiting list to obtain Italian citizenship.

Information requested by Angelo Bonelli, a leader of the Europa Verde movement and Green and Left Alliance lawmaker, who sees citizenship as a possible move to evade prosecution in Brazil.

According to Rapporteur Gianmarco Mazzi, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where the questioning was directed, has been informed that President Jair Bolsonaro’s sons, Flávio and Eduardo Bolsonaro, are seeking to join the waiting list in 2020. Person presenting Italian citizenship and proof of residency in Brasilia at that time.

The issue of Bolsonaros’ Italian citizenship came to the fore on November 7 when the brothers were photographed leaving the Italian embassy in Brazil. The senator even issued a memo stating that leaving the country was not an option for him. However, unlike the reporter, he said in the note that the process started in 2019.

On the 10th, Bonelli submitted a parliamentary no-confidence motion questioning the State Department about the case. The Italian politician also wanted to know if President Bolsonaro had made the request. However, rapporteur Mazzi explained that Jair Bolsonaro has not made any requests in this regard.

Mazzi said that Eduardo and Flávio submitted some documents and that the process was analyzed to verify whether there were requirements set by Italian law for granting citizenship. “I emphasize that the recognition of Italian citizenship as iure sanguinis does not provide discretionary evaluation activity of the administration examining the application, but only confirms that the party concerned meets the requirements set by law”.

At the end of the reading, Bonelli urged the Bolsonaro clan not to be granted any immediate concession in the face of bureaucratic procedure, as the citizenship process requested abroad could take up to ten years. “I asked that Eduardo and Flávio Bolsonaro not be given a preferential path and that the government carefully check whether they actually meet the citizenship requirements, taking into account the critical issues I raised in the interrogation, such as their proximity to the United States. The murderers of de Marielle Franco,” Bonelli said. , to Uol’s report.

In the no-confidence question, the MP recalled Bolsonaro’s closeness to Prime Minister Georgia Meloni and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini and reaffirmed that the President and his party are responsible, and therefore Bolsonaro, for the destruction of the Amazon rainforest and human rights abuses. He is on trial for crimes against humanity as the Brazilian Senate initiates a “state of indictment”.