Two audio recordings of the former chairman of the council disrupt the formation of the government of Giorgia Meloni with his right allies.
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These confessions had the effect of a bomb in the peninsula. Two recordings that leaked in the press a few hours apart throw raw light on the fractures of the right -wing majority and on the future of the Forza Italia Party (Center right) within the future government coalition that is used To form the future Prime Minister and Chef of the Fratelli Party of Italia (Post-Fascist), Giorgia Meloni.
In an audio extract, recorded by a parliamentarian by Forza Italia and broadcast on Wednesday October 19, we hear Silvio Berlusconi piercing on the war in Ukraine in the company of elected officials from the party gathered in a room of the Montecitorio palace, seat of The Chamber of Deputies. “I got back in touch with President Putin, a little … Finally a little, says the former president of the Council, who says that, for his birthday – he was 86 years old on September 29 – the Russian leader Sent “twenty bottles of vodka and a very nice letter”. “I answered with bottles of Lambrusco and an equally kind letter. He told me that I was the first of his five “real friends” “, he continues.
The second recording is even more compromising for the Cavaliere, who explains to his troops that Vladimir Putin would have entered war because of President Volodymyr Zelensky. “I do not see how Putin and Zelensky can come to the negotiation table. Because there is no possible way. Zelensky, in my opinion … drop it, I cannot say it,” stops Berlusconi . A final sentence applauded by parliamentarians of forza Italia.
“Meloni is the hostage of the prorussians”
The sequence could seriously undermine Italy’s credibility on the European scene, while Giorgia Meloni has always supported Ukraine and NATO a strong line of its political program. The applause of the 45 parliamentarians is also disturbed about the actual position of the party against the Ukrainian conflict. Antonio Tajani, former president of the European Parliament and coordinator of Forza Italia, can he obtain the portfolio of Foreign Affairs as planned? Many observers saw the hypothesis moving away Thursday evening, shortly after the controversy launched by the Italian billionaire.
“Silvio Berlusconi has always been placed at the center of attention, underlines Giovanni Orsina, professor at Luiss University in Rome and specialist in Italian lines. But following a political rationality, a clear line. must admit that a destructive Berlusconi like that, I have never seen it. “
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