Giorgia Meloni and Matteo Salvini
Still a duel in the center-right, Lega leader: “Someone made a mistake …”
Matteo Salvini relaunches on the modification or even the elimination of sanctions against Russia. He does it first in Fano: “It is the only case in the world in which the sanctions that should stop Russia, bring Russia to its knees, instead of punishing the Russians, are punishing the Italians. So obviously someone has wronged his accounts. “. The secretary of the League repeats it on Twitter: “Are sanctions working? No. To date, those who have been sanctioned are earning, while those who put the sanctions are on their knees. Evidently someone in Europe is making a mistake: rethinking the strategy is fundamental to save jobs and businesses in Italy “.
Words that trigger the harsh reaction of the Secretary of the Democratic Party Enrico Letta, who on Twitter comments on Salvini’s twittering: “I don’t think Putin would have said it better.” In the evening, in Reggio Emilia, he increases the dose, also involving the rest of the center-right: “The coalition, whatever Meloni says, has a choice that is profoundly ambiguous on one of the most important issues today, that of Russian aggression. “Ukraine. Salvini close to Putin, pro Putin, who supports Putin’s theses, is a real danger for our country”.
Fratelli ‘Italia distances itself: “It will not be the government line”
But Brothers of Italy distances themselves from Salvini. It is Senator Giovanbattista Fazzolari who gives the halt to the secretary of the League: “Decisions such as support for Ukraine, the dispatch of weapons and sanctions, must be agreed with Western partners, and Italy must maintain the compactness of the alliance. It is unimaginable – emphasizes Giorgia Meloni’s loyalist to the Adnkronos – that a government on the Ukrainian question follows a different line from that of its Western partners “. Does Salvini want to rethink the sanctions? “It is a wish on the part of the leader of the League, but it cannot be a line of government”.
And if from Forza Italia the national coordinator Antonio Tajani speaks of “just sanctions”, explaining that ” the priority is to lower the cost of energy and this must be done with a European ceiling on the price of gas, which is why joint action by the whole Union is needed to remedy the just sanctions that have been imposed by ‘Europe to the Russian Federation “, the most” draghian “part of the center-right has no doubts: no step backwards on sanctions.’ ‘Italy must continue to give maximum support to Ukraine, no ifs and buts. The European Union must absolutely not take any step backwards on sanctions, which are just and necessary, but help individuals and businesses to bear the consequences of the sanctions “, states the political leader of Noi Moderati, Maurizio Lupi.
“We want to be clear: the effects of a split on the Western front would be devastating for Italy and Europe and the economic and geopolitical consequences far more serious than the current ones. Continue, therefore, without hesitation, on the path traced by the Draghi government ‘‘. Senator Gaetano Quagliariello, national coordinator of ‘Italia al Centro’ echoes him: ” A conflict, whether conventional or unconventional, is never a gala dinner. There are no sanctions that aspire to be effective that are painless for those who issue them. It depends on the value you place on the principles you believe in. “
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