"I hope that the Italian center-right led by the Brothers of Italy wins the elections and that this can pave the way for something similar in Spain in a few months". Giorgia Meloni said this to the Iberian press agency Efe, speaking of the Spanish far-right party Vox .
“With Vox”, added Meloni, “ we are linked by mutual respect, friendship and loyalty . We smiled at the fact that in Italy the left uses Vox to attack FdI and in Spain they use FdI to attack Vox ”.
Then the leader of FdI also spoke of fascism, urged to RaiNews: "When Gianfranco Fini condemned it by defining it as absolute evil, I was inside An and I don't think I disassociated myself, I said nothing different".
With the endorsement to Vox, however, the aspiring premier attracted numerous criticisms: "Meloni hoping for the victory of the Spanish ultra-right heir to the dictator Franco, throws off the mask of moderate ", attacks Laura Boldrini, "an ultra-right nostalgic for dictatorships aspires to govern Italy ".
Even Carlo Calenda , who usually does not attack Meloni on this level, goes down hard: “He said something very serious, Vox is truly a neo-fascist party . I have never evoked the democratic alarm but and Meloni starts saying that she wants Vox in the government, that tomorrow Le Pen, Orban, be careful because there are people there who are declared fascists. Meloni proves once again to be inadequate to govern this country ”.
Statements that “make one shudder” according to Angelo Bonelli of the Green-Left Italian alliance: “Meloni asserted that his victory in Italy could. to pave the way for Vox in Spain, a xenophobic, homophobic and nostalgic party for Franco's dictatorship. Faced with the question of whether she shared Fini's words on fascism, which had defined it as 'absolute evil', she limited herself to replying that at the time she had not dissociated. We note the fact that Meloni just fails to say that fascism is absolute evil . The Italy that dreams Giorgia Meloni is a country totally isolated from the rest of Europe, behind on the rights and arm in arm with the xenophobic and denier right of Orban, Trump and Bolsonaro ”.
(Unioneonline / L)