The French government will confirm that it will “monitor the respect of rights” in Italy, which has provoked the anger of the future Prime Minister and President, Sergio Mattarella
Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s prime minister ‘in pectore’ after her resounding victory in the September 25 elections, will not find it easy to win the respect of her EU partners. Although the new government in Rome is expected to see the light of day in more or less two weeks, it is already receiving preventive criticism from other European administrators who do not fully trust Meloni’s far-right ideology.
The last to criticize it was the French Minister of European Affairs, Laurence Boone, who assured in an interview with the Italian newspaper ‘La Repubblica’ published Friday that Paris “will ensure respect for rights and freedoms” of the new government of Rome. This will be led by Fratelli d’Italia (FdI, Brothers of Italy), Meloni’s political force, along with his conservative bloc allies: Matteo Salvini’s League and Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconi’s party.
The FdI leader considered Boone’s words an “unacceptable threat of interference against a sovereign state, a member of the European Union”, recalling that the French Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, had also previously expressed himself in the same vein and assured that France would remain alert to how “human rights and the right to abortion” were respected with the new executive in the neighboring country.
The second Paris intervention through the mouth of Boone caused even the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, to intervene on this occasion. In a striking appeal to his European partners to respect what citizens have decided in the polls, the head of state confirmed on Friday that Italy “knows how to take care of itself with regard to its constitution and the values of the European Union”.
For his part, the outgoing Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, said from Prague, where he attended the informal summit of EU heads of state and government, that he had noticed “a lot of curiosity” among his partners about the impending political change in Rome , “but no worries.”
Source: La Verdad
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