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Salvini lashes out at Galantino

After top bishop chastises 'peddlers of anti-immigrant feeling'

Redazione Ansa

(ANSA) - Rome, August 10 - The leader of the rightwing anti-immigrant, anti-euro Northern League party told ANSA news agency on Monday that "someone is talking too much in the name of the (Catholic) Church".
    "My argument is not with the Church but with someone who is talking too much in its name," Matteo Salvini said.
    "Someone is doing politics in the name of the Church".
    Salvini spoke in reaction to comments by the leader of the Italian Bishops' Conference (CEI) blasting unscrupulous politicians pandering to anti-immigrant sentiments to win votes.
    "Unfortunately (anti-immigrant feeling) is being fueled by a handful of cheap peddlers willing to say extraordinarily inane things just to get a vote," Msgr. Nunzio Galantino said earlier in the day.
   

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