Soumahoro flies to Africa to make deals. And from Dakar he starts giving lessons to Trump –

Christian Campigli

July 21, 2024

He travels to Africa, gives lessons to our government, admonishes the candidate for the White House. Aboubakar Soumahoro is a raging river. Convinced that he has solutions for everything. And that he is, once again, the icon of the left launched years ago by the magical couple Nicola Fratoianni – Angelo Bonelli. “I had the opportunity to meet the president of the Parliament of Senegal, Amadou Mame Diop, we talked about the need to work towards a bilateral agreement to ensure that over 100,000 Senegalese citizens living in Italy can enjoy their pensions. 62.8% of them are very young workers. As confirmed by INPS, migrants contribute approximately 11 billion euros to our country’s pension expenditure, but only benefit from approximately 4.5 billion.”

The founder of Italia Plurale is also the promoter of the West Africa inter-parliamentary group and yesterday he flew to Dakar, Senegal. “The pension, in addition to being a right that the Italian State cannot deny to our friends in Senegal, is an incentive to work regularly and also allows those who want to voluntarily return not to be forced to remain in Italy”. During the day, the man who boldly entered Parliament with his boots covered in mud was received at the presidency of the Senegalese parliament. “Today – explained the Ivorian politician – I also had the opportunity to meet with the Italian ambassador in Dakar Caterina Bertolini with whom I discussed the issue of the timeframes for visas for work, family reunification, study and the necessary procedures which, to date, are very long. I gathered the ambassador’s availability and willingness to deal with the various requests through a widespread intervention. Finally – continues the parliamentarian – I had a fruitful conversation with some unions and with Ayib Daffé, president of the parliamentary group of the government majority”.

Aboubakar Soumahoro has always understood the great importance of social media for a politician. And so, during the afternoon, he also found time to give (unsolicited) advice even to Donald Trump. He commented on a passage of his speech, in which the tycoon recalled that “I felt God on my side. I will put an end to wars and I will finish the wall. Ready for the largest deportation from the US”. A concept that the native of Bétroulilié branded without mincing words. “Trump’s words are full of hatred, contempt and racism towards migrants”.