League leader Matteo Salvini on
Thursday complained about elements of the Green Pass amid talk
of a major rift with his right-wing party about the vaccine
passport.
About half of the League's MPs in the Lower House did not take
part in a vote on one of a series of decrees regulating the
Green Pass on Wednesday and an anti-vax MEP left the group
earlier this week.
The League looks split between members who back the government's
line of making the Green Pass obligatory to do many things in
Italy, including to go to work as of October 15, and those who
are against these measures.
Salvini, meanwhile, seems to be trying to walk a thin line
between both sides.
On Thursday, for example, he complained about vaccine waivers.
"If the State imposes a vaccine on me, and I have had both doses
and I have the Green Pass, it must take responsibility for the
eventual consequences," Salvini said.
"It cannot make me do something in order to be able to go to
work and then make me sign a form that says, if anything
happens, it's my problem and the State has nothing to do with
it.
"If the State asks something from me, I trust the State and I
trust science.
"But the State must take responsibility for the decisions it
imposes on me".
The other parties in the ruling coalition have blasted the
League for being part of the government while repeatedly coming
out against its policies.
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