(ANSA) - Rome, August 18 - The Italian political world is a "little harem of the co-opted and the wily" that bears no relation to that of postwar Christian Democrat statesman Alcide De Gasperi, Italian bishops' conference (CEI) No.2 Msgr Nunzio Galantino said Tuesday.
Releasing a speech that he was due to give at De Gasperi's birthplace near Trento, CEI Secretary-General Galantino said De Gasperi's politics "isn't what we have grown used to seeing today, that is a puzzle of personal ambitions". Galantino pulled out of the event saying he did not want to fuel a row with anti-immigrant Northern League leader Matteo Salvini over how Italy should deal with the Mediterranean migrant emergency.
Italian political world 'a harem' says CEI No.2
De Gasperi's politics a far cry from today's says Galantino