«Sixteen, seventeen months of government… It seems like 17 years to me…». “Is there too much morbidity about his private life?”. “Yes, of course I perceive it and it’s another thing that doesn’t help because everyone needs their own private dimension of normality, which is taken away from me.” She said it Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni this morning, Tuesday 4 June, on Agorà on Rai 3. «Every Saturday and Sunday I find photographers following me at my house and it’s not easy because I chose to get involved in politics, if I had wanted to participate in Big Brother I would have done so, but I I don’t want to give up my normality. I am fighting with all my will to remain the person I was before, despite this morbid attention that I see every day.”
The interview continues on foreign policy issues. «On the sidelines of the G7 summit, it will be in Switzerland a first peace conference relating to the Ukrainian question. Unlike what I hear very often, if we start talking about diplomatic solutions to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine it is because we supported and helped the Ukrainians defend themselves, who had a significant numerical inferiority in the invasion of Russia: what what is not understood is that peace is built with deterrence.” «There is no need to sit at any peace table if someone has already invaded someone else. If the Russians had invaded the Ukrainians – he continued – today we would have a war much closer to home. Instead we helped the Ukrainians defend themselves, this created a balance between the forces on the field and, if a negotiating table can be opened, it is thanks to this work.”
AND on the war in the Middle East the prime minister underlines that «glimpses are opening for a sustainable ceasefire and the release of the Israeli hostages. «We work in support of this solution and then in support of work that in my opinion must begin immediately, for a structural solution in the Middle East: two peoples in two states. I am proud of the work that Italy has done, particularly on the humanitarian front, for the civilians of Gaza.”
«Schlein? I respect her, she says she’s a champion of women but she didn’t defend me.”
«I was surprised that Schlein wasn’t able to say a word when I was offended and when I reacted she, who calls herself a champion of women, took it out on me. I think she lacks courage, I respect her but she is not capable of making a difference. She insists on the fact that I call myself “the president”, but it is a question of form while I ask a question of substance: we must stop insulting women by thinking they are weak.” AND Prime Minister Meloni also returned to talk about Governor De Luca. «I did what I thought was right, I was insulted, I defended myself. De Luca’s words were reverberated not so much by an underlying sexism, but by the typical bullying that acts arrogant behind your back and when he confronts you he is no longer capable of being arrogant. These forms of bullying hide a form of weakness, of insecurity, they are usually more common when directed towards women, because women are considered weak. Because I don’t think they are weak, in fact, I simply proved it. Bullies are much weaker, those who act arrogant from behind are much weaker, in live broadcasts they act arrogant, and then if you face them face to face they remain silent.”
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