A mixture of expectation and fear for the future is the feeling of a Portuguese woman who has lived in Italy for 32 years and has not yet decided who she will vote for in the legislative elections this Sunday to elect the successor to Mário Draghi.
Maria de Fátima Afonso lives in Rome, is the founder and president of the Associação Cultural LusItália and confesses that she hopes that these elections represent a change.
“We have been waiting four years for these elections, Italy is a very difficult country to govern, there are many parties and it is difficult to agree on security, cleanliness and the expectation is that now they can remedy these problems. “.
Maria de Fátima Afonso was born in Gerês, a district of Braga, and says that it is increasingly difficult to live in Italy. The political scene is confused and the vote has not yet been decided.
“They don’t want an agreement and they all want to govern and have power. I still don’t know who to vote for, no politician has given me confidence or the will to change. Lately there has been a lot of confusion, nobody has a majority, then they make alliance pacts and in the end the people pay. We are entrepreneurs, we have a restaurant and now we can say that we are paying to work. Today it is very difficult to live in Italy”.
The president of LusItália, the only Portuguese cultural association in Rome, confesses that she is concerned about the growth of the extreme right and as an emigrant she is somewhat afraid of the future. “I’m scared, I married an Italian, I’ve been here for 30 years and I see Italy as my country, but I also think that maybe I have to go back to Portugal, because it’s calmer. It’s getting harder and harder.” he lives here, we have nothing that works.”
This Sunday, Italy elects the new government. According to the latest polls, the coalition that includes Brothers of Italy, Liga and Força Italia has an advantage of almost 20 points, 46.6%, compared to 27.2% of the progressives.
Source: TSF
