«Strong condemnation of President Donald Trump’s attack on President Meloni for having dutifully expressed solidarity with Pope Leo». Thus the Dem secretary Elly Schlein in the Chamber. “We are adversaries in this Chamber – he added – but we are all Italian citizens and we will not accept attacks or threats to the government and our country”.
«I express – said Schlein – our strongest condemnation, which I am sure will be unanimous in this Chamber, of the attack by American President Donald Trump on Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni for having dutifully expressed solidarity with the Pope for the very serious words that Trump addressed to him. Italy is a free and sovereign country. And our Constitution is clear: Italy repudiates war. No foreign head of state can address our country and our government with this serious lack of respect. We are political adversaries, but we are all Italian citizens and representatives of Italians and we do not accept attacks or threats from the governments of other countries.