The French government will affirm that it “will monitor respect for rights” in Italy, which has caused the anger of the future prime minister and the president, Sergio Mattarella
Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister ‘in pectore’ of Italy after her resounding victory in the elections on September 25, will not find it easy to win the respect of her EU partners. Although it is expected that the new government in Rome will not see the light of day for another two weeks, more or less, it is already earning preemptive criticism from other European executives who do not fully trust Meloni’s far-right ideology.
The last to criticize it was the French Minister for European Affairs, Laurence Boone, who in an interview with the Italian newspaper ‘La Repubblica’ published this Friday, assured that Paris “will monitor respect for the rights and freedoms” of the new Government of Rome. This will be commanded by Fratelli d’Italia (FdI, Brothers of Italy), Meloni’s political force, along with his allies from the conservative bloc: Matteo Salvini’s League and Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconi’s party.
The FdI leader considered that Boone’s words were an “unacceptable threat of interference against a sovereign state, a member of the European Union”, and recalled that the French Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, had also expressed herself in the same vein before, assuring that France would remain attentive to how “human rights and the right to abortion” were respected with the new Executive in the neighboring country.
The second intervention from Paris through the mouth of Boone caused that on this occasion even the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, intervened. In a striking call to attention to its European partners so that they respect what citizens have decided at the polls, the head of state affirmed this Friday that Italy “knows how to take care of itself in respect of its Constitution and the values of the European Union”.
The outgoing Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, stated for his part from Prague, where he participated in the informal summit of the EU Heads of State and Government, that he had perceived “a lot of curiosity” among his partners about the imminent political change in Rome , “but not concern.”
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