“Yes, it’s true, we haven’t been together for a while. For Lollo I would throw myself into the Tiber, as they say in Rome. We love each other, I know how much he’s worth, I know what kind of political stuff he’s made of: someone who can work 500 hours a day. He’s a solid, honest person with great preparation. Our political project is moving forward, our personal relationships are still solid, then love is another thing. For now it’s like this and since it’s our business and there are so many people we love in between I would end it here with morbid curiosity”. He says this in an interview with Il Foglio Arianna Meloni, head of the political secretariat and membership of Fdi and sister of the Prime Minister GGeorgia Meloni.
The leader of Fratelli d’Italia also responds to the comparison between her and Berlusconi evoked in the statements after the Giornale’s behind-the-scenes story on a possible investigation against her: “No one – she underlines – compares himself to a great statesman like Berlusconi. The accusations of mythomania that emerge from the story that is told about me are fine, but have mercy! I have a sense of proportion. The thing that Sallusti wrote was inspired by the book and the statements of Luca Palamaraa former member of the CSM, on a method that evidently existed, and I don’t know if it still exists. Let’s hope not, of course. And then imagine, I’ll try to say it clearly: far be it from me to attack the judiciary. If anything, the attack is against a certain journalism that continually brings me into the picture, describing me as having been grappling with nominations and power plots for two years. This depresses me”.
«Obviously I have been involved in politics in Rome all my life, I have known many people for a long time, on the right, which is my world, as well as on the left», he adds, explaining that «I get annoyed when someone tells my thoughts and then attributes them to Giorgia: it’s a game that has been going on for almost two years now. It’s a shame that it’s not the Word and that eighty percent of the rumors are self-sustaining fables.” Fdi is about to launch a training school for managers, a sort of “Right-wing Frattocchie,” as the newspaper writes, which will be dealt with Fabio Rampelliwho has the delegation of the department of the same name. “What many do not want to understand – explains Arianna Meloni – is that unlike other political formations we do not want to leave the party unprotected and lock ourselves in the palace”.
With Fdi “we are rooted, we are present in all the municipalities of Italy, we have a strong and cohesive community and therefore a responsibility. Last year we celebrated a congress season. I can take care of this instead of being seen as a trafficker and a mythomaniac. We are learning to walk on a Tibetan bridge, but obviously not on water. Everyone gives their best and first and foremost my sister and Lollo, the two people I know better than anyone. Often attacked with incredible violence, and I am thinking of Lollo, who instead is doing an extraordinary job”.