# Decreto-legge 113/2018 published: Salvini as interior minister abolishes general humanitarian protection

Date: 2018

## The fact

On 4 October 2018 Italy published decreto-legge n. 113, proposed by President of the Council [Giuseppe Conte](/people/giuseppe-conte) and Interior Minister [Matteo Salvini](/people/matteo-salvini), abolishing the general humanitarian-protection permit and lengthening detention in repatriation centres. Parliament converted it as legge 1 December 2018 n. 132 after a Chamber vote Reuters recorded as 396 to 99.

## Context

He was interior minister and deputy prime minister in the first Conte cabinet. Conte is unresolved. Humanitarian protection had been a residual Italian permit, not Convention refugee status.

4 October 2018 publication; 1 December 2018 conversion. Stored as one 4 October 2018 Fact. Keep Decreto-legge 113/2018 published: Salvini as interior minister abolishes general humanitarian protection on 2018-10-04 separate from neighbouring 4 October 2018 d.l. 113, 22 October 2022 oath, 2 January 2023 d.l. 1, and 20 December 2024 Open Arms acquittal.

The League secretary who is deputy prime minister and minister of infrastructure and transport can countersign a decree of concerto, bind the party, and administer ports. He does not sit as the interior minister after 22 October 2022, as the Constitutional Court, or as a Palermo kidnapping-trial panel. A 2018 gazette is not authorship of every later NGO detention. Sharing a cabinet with [Giorgia Meloni](/people/mig-giorgia-meloni) is not a reason to drop 4 October 2018.

## Evidence and sources

113, converted l. 132/2018 (https://www.gazzettaufficiale.it/eli/id/2018/12/03/18A07702/sg; Gazzetta Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana).

Gazzetta Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is the owned League-hardline driver: a completed abolition of a general humanitarian-protection ground.

## What is established and what is not

Established: D.l. 113/2018 was published 4 October 2018 and converted as l. 132/2018. He proposed it as interior minister with Conte.

Not established: A unique later undocumented-stock integer as Contribution.size, or a unique Mediterranean death count.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Sharing the proposal with Conte is not a reason to drop 4 October 2018.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Decreto-legge 113/2018 published: Salvini as interior minister abolishes general humanitarian protection, not a later speech about Decreto-legge 113/2018 published: Salvini as interior minister abolishes general humanitarian protection.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Decreto-legge 113/2018 published: Salvini as interior minister abolishes general humanitarian protection on 2018-10-04 is not a licence to treat every later Gazzetta Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Decreto-legge 113/2018 published: Salvini as interior minister abolishes general humanitarian protection into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He proposed the decree as interior minister. Sharing the proposal with Conte is not a reason to drop 4 October 2018. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Matteo Salvini: https://factrail.ai/people/matteo-salvini

## Drivers

- Salvini League hardline: https://factrail.ai/drivers/salvini-league-hardline

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/world/italys-salvini-gets-win-with-new-asylum-and-security-rules-idUSKCN1NY1HP/
- https://www.gazzettaufficiale.it/eli/id/2018/12/03/18A07702/sg

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/it-salvini-dl113-2018
