Giorgia Meloni and Alfredo Mantovano
Meloni and the prank call, the defense of Undersecretary Mantovano: “He understood immediately”
Alfredo Mantovano cares about reduce the case of the trap set for Prime Minister Meloni with the “fake” phone call. The undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council with responsibility for services, in fact, when questioned by the reporters of Fattoquotidiano.it at the entrance to Palazzo Chigi, responded firmly: ‘The Prime Minister understood it immediately”. Right away? ”And of course,” Mantovano replied before returning to Palazzo Chigi without answering other questions about the case.
Therefore, Giorgia Meloni’s loyalist limited himself to reiterating what already transpired yesterday – reports Il Foglio – namely that Meloni was annoyed by the attitude of the “fake” African diplomat (Mousa Faki ed) – behind which Vovan and Lexus were hiding; the couple boasts a long series of illustrious pranksters, from Angela Merkel to Pedro Sanchez.
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This obviously does not erase the Security flaws revealed by prank call, nor does it clarify why Palazzo Chigi did not announce it before, instead waiting for the comedians to publish the audio. “Certainly there was superficiality on the part of whoever organized the phone call and this must never happen again”, the Foreign Minister admitted this morning Antonio Tajani, while in the majority there are those behind the phone call who evoke the hybrid war and the direction of the Kremlin in order to extract some compromising words about the war in Ukraine. An objective which, in particular regarding the conflict unleashed by Putin, the minister denies has been achieved. “President Meloni’s words are a clear sign of confirmation of our country’s political line“, Tajani added.
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Moscow: “Meloni justifies glorification of Ukrainian fascists”
As reported by Ansa, commenting on Giorgia Meloni’s conversation with the Russian comedian duo Vovan and Lexus, the spokeswoman for the Moscow Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, criticized the prime minister for not having condemned the ultranationalist currents in Ukrainian politics, and he compared them to Italian fascism. Zakharova cites in particular the response given by Meloni to the alleged African politician she thought she was talking to, who reminded her of the legacy in Ukrainian politics of the nationalist leader Stepan Bandera, “whom Russia presents as Hitler.” “I don’t agree with this – says the Prime Minister -, I think that nationalism is a problem that Putin has”. Then, faced with the interlocutor’s insistence, Meloni adds that the Ukrainians “are doing what they have to do, what is right to do, and we are trying to help them”. On her Telegram channel Zakharova says that in this way Meloni said that the Kiev government “has the right to glorify” Ukrainian nationalists such as Bandera and Roman Shukhevych. The spokesperson for Russian diplomacy, ideally addressing the prime minister, asks her if she would be ready to glorify fascist leaders such as Achille Starace or Achille Pavolini, “or the infamous Black Brigades which operated between 1943 and 1945 in northern Italy as the military wing of the Fascist Republican Party”. “I understand – insists Zakharova – that you are very busy with very important matters and are unlikely to find time for books. But you can certainly find an hour and a half for a film. ‘Der Fall Collini’ is a German film in which Italian actors also appear. No one will accuse her of being carried away by Kremlin propaganda. And perhaps she will understand.”
Premier Meloni, Renzi on the fake phone call: “Giorgia, don’t be a victim. Get help”
There was no shortage of criticism from the opposition, the dem secretary Elly Schelin defined what happened as “disconcerting”, inviting Meloni to explain how it was possible. While for the former prime minister Matteo Renzi, “the fool does not damage the Prime Minister so much, but the country’s credibility. A shame. Giorgia, don’t play the victim. Get help. The story of the phone call between the two Russian comedians cannot be classified as a prank call.”
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What happened has The spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, also “inconvenienced”. who accused Meloni of glorifying the Ukrainian nationalist and Nazi Stepan Bandera. There Meloni’s incriminating phrase is: “Ukrainians are doing what they need to do, what is right to do, and we are trying to help them.”
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