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Italy's first black senator: my election shows far right is not anti-immigration
Toni Iwobi, originally from Nigeria, says his election for the League shows far right party has no problem with ‘legal migration’

Angela Giuffrida in Rome

Thu 8 Mar 2018 05.00 GMT


Toni Iwobi: ‘My party is fighting to restore legal immigration.’ Photograph: Facebook/Toni Iwobi
Italy’s first black senator has said his election for the League has proved that the far-right party, whose anti-immigrant rhetoric helped it to its best ever result on Sunday, has no problem with legal migration.

Campaigning under the party slogan “stop the invasion”, Toni Iwobi, a 62-year-old businessman originally from Nigeria, won his seat in Spirano, a small town in the Lombardy province of Bergamo, as the party took almost 18% of the vote nationwide.

“It’s an incredible honour for me to be Italy’s first black senator,” he told the Guardian.