Italy is seeing a grassroots, anti-government, populist movement: the “Orange Vests.”
Taking inspiration from France's "yellow vests" movement, Italy is now seeing "Orange Vests" protests.The center-right opposition also protested in Rome on Tuesday.
Described as a "rightist-libertarian" and "turbo populist" movement by the Italian media and modeling themselves on, the leader of the Orange Vests, former Carabinieri Gen. Antonio Pappalardo, has said that the coronavirus pandemic did not exist. alluding to a high-profile doctor who said this weekend that the virus "no longer exists clinically."
whose economy was already fragile and largely based on small and medium-size enterprises, many of which are family-runThe coronavirus in Italy emerged in the wealthy north in late February. In early March, the government, led by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, instigated a strict lockdown that saw all but essential food stores and pharmacies close, hurting livelihoods across the country.
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