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"Madam President, the Oostlander report deserves all our respect. Many, if not all, speeches have underlined the fundamental problem, which is that of the respect for human rights and principles of freedom on which our Union is founded. The question is, does Turkey fulfil the requirements from this point of view? We would answer in the negative.
In this connection, I would like to report that yesterday something very serious happened in the chamber of the Italian Parliament. The leader of the Lega Nord-Padania, Mr Cè, was prevented from speaking because he dared to utter a phrase – ‘
(thieving Rome) – which was censored. This is a very serious precedent. I therefore call on the European Parliament, as the guardian of the freedom of all European peoples, to show solidarity concerning the violated right of the legitimate representatives of the citizens of Padania – who have no fewer rights than the Kurds – to be able to speak freely, in particular in the parliamentary chambers of a founding member of the European Union.
I would reiterate that this is an extremely serious precedent concerning censorship of a political party that wants independence and federalism and is, therefore, against statism. This seems more typical of Turkish style democracy than that of a country that is undoubtedly democratic and was a founding member of the European Union. The phrase does not indicate racism against anyone, least of all the Roman people. Being against ‘thieving Rome’ means being against centralism and being against those who oppress our freedom. We are against thieving Rome for the same reasons that we say ‘no’ to the accession of Turkey to Europe. Down with thieving Rome, down with thieving Rome! Here I can say it freely and no one, thank God, will silence me: down with thieving Rome! Let them hear it in Rome: Padania is against thieving Rome, it is in favour of freedom. Long live freedom! Long live the European Union! Long live the principle of the right of peoples to self-determination!"@en1
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