Ukraine: Conte, Schlein and Calenda distant on war position
Italy’s position on the war in Ukraine still marks the distance between the three opposition leaders, Elly Schlein, Carlo Calenda and Giuseppe Conte who instead ‘unite’ in view of the maneuver, on several points. The issue of Italian involvement in the conflict was discussed during the closed-door meeting (Conte in connection) that took place today on the final day of the Ambrosetti Forum in Cernobbio, during the panel dedicated to the opposition.
For Giuseppe Conte, “the two sides must agree on peace, a negotiated solution must be imposed” to stop this dramatic conflict. The secretary of the Democratic Party, Schlein, without going into detail about the long-range weapons to be supplied or not, would have confirmed full support for Ukraine. For the leader of Azione, Calenda, “defense is done on Ukrainian territory but active defense is also done by preventing attacks and bombings, hitting in a limited and precise way military objectives from which attacks are launched”. President Putin “is not only attacking Ukraine but is trying to undermine our democracies and must be stopped”.
Calenda, speaking to the audience of entrepreneurs, defined it as “hypocritical for Italy, the only country in Europe together with Hungary, to say that yes, weapons can be used but you cannot hit the airport from which the bombings that hit your country are launched. We must choose whether to be as they describe us all over the world, that is, the little Italy that takes a step from one side, a step from the other, because it never has the courage of its own positions, or whether we are with Ukraine because Ukraine is the barrier today to what is happening, that is, Russian expansion and not only through war”. Viktor Orban, the president of Hungary, who spoke at the Forum on the day of the inauguration, “is the fifth column of Russia – added the leader of Azione -. And he acts within the Council as the fifth column of Russia. And so are the parties that are in our Parliament and that have formal agreements in place with Russia”.
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