Vannacci: “Gay pride? Why don’t older people claim geriatric pride?
"I'm not homophobic because phobia is a psychiatric disease. Migrants? I would even save an animal at sea"
ROME – Gays like the elderly. Or migrants like animals. Roberto Vannacci answers questions from the Foreign Press Association in Italy, and does so by putting together yet another personal show. The candidate with the League in all five constituencies of the national territory starts from a great classic: “I have many gay friends”. And then he sinks in: “This is gay pride month, I don’t see any problems as long as these gentlemen claim their pride. It would be nice if other categories did it. We have many elderly people in society who don’t have a parade claiming pride geriatric, and the elderly are many more in various orders of magnitude”.
“I’m not homophobic, I have many homosexual friends. I’m not homophobic because phobia is a psychiatric illness and I don’t have an illness. I’m not like Dracula who runs away from the crucifix, I don’t run away from to a homosexual, they don’t bother me especially if they are people who don’t flaunt themselves too ostentatiously and are very free to be so. I have always said that I have nothing against homosexuals, homosexuality is part of tastes and predilections so it cannot be criticized. , what I criticized were the prevarications of the minorities towards the majorities and therefore the ostentations”.
When asked if there are many homosexuals in the armed forces, as in societies, he responds by citing statistical data in Great Britain: “In 2021 – he explains – it was certified that those who did not recognize themselves in heterosexuality were 3% of the population, so referring to this statistic also for the armed forces I think it is around 3-4%. In the armed forces the beauty is that we are all the same, there is no difference, not even gender. No one asks for it to be recognised its diversity in the name of I don’t know what. In the armed forces, no one puts the label of straight or homosexual or parades in the name of diversity”.
“THE PLANET SAVES ITSELF”
Climate chapter. “Climate change exists and no one has ever denied it, but it has always been there. If someone goes to the Dolomites, in Dolomia they will find fossils of marine organisms. I have never doubted that the changes of the last two hundred years have also been caused by anthropic elements But the planet needs us to save it, the Planet saves itself“.
“I AM NOT A FACE CANDIDATE”
“Considering that I fought for years in the war, I decided to continue fighting but by sitting on the benches. Mine is not a candidacy If the voters elect me I will sit on those seats in Brussels I am an original, I am not like the front candidates. In Europe, a continent that is based on the manifestation of ideas of principles, even absurd nonsense like the flat earth, here in a democratic and civilized country I was suspended because I published a book. I appealed to the TAR and we will see what the administrative court will say. I certainly didn’t feel well – he explains -. for a reason that I don’t consider correct, I expected it because the disciplinary procedure had started months before and I could see that it didn’t bode well but hope is the last thing to die. I didn’t understand the serious reasons for this suspension. I wasn’t able to understand well what was criticized in my book. I felt abandoned by my leaderhsip. For a soldier it’s not nice, we never abandon anyone on the battlefield, perhaps this also pushed me to run for office and choose politics. Whatever happens, I will never betray my ideals and principles, otherwise I would not have given myself to this activity, which is perhaps the most important activity for a man’s life, there is no more noble activity than politics in a society. democratic”.
“MIGRANTS? I WOULD EVEN SAVE AN ANIMAL AT SEA”
Vannacci also addresses the issue of migrants. “What if I would save someone at sea? I’m not just a soldier, I’m also a sailor, so there’s no doubt that I would save any person at sea, even an animal. Apart from that there is also a law of the sea that requires it, so I’m definitely not a criminal but I would do it even if there wasn’t the law. And I wouldn’t do it only at sea. This tragedy at sea should be solved and the only way to solve it is not to do it leave”.
As for the Dublin Treaty, he observes: “It was certainly signed under totally different conditions, I think it is appropriate to change it but that is not the key, it is not the distribution of immigrants that will make the difference but the fact of blocking clandestine immigration, that can make the difference and achieve regular immigration based on international rules: those who come to Europe will have to ask for a visa and be approved. This is the goal we are aiming for: not accepting everyone regardless of where arrive and then distribute them. The laws must be functional to the objectives, if they are no longer suitable they are changed”.