Berlusconi: «As prime minister I would not have met Zelensky». And the controversy breaks out
The president of Forza Italia: «This gentleman shouldn't have attacked Donbass». The Democratic Party: "The Cav is with Putin, does Meloni agree?" Palazzo Chigi: "Convinced support for Kiev"
Berlusconi at the polling station for the vote in the Lombardy regional elections (Ansa)
«If I had been the prime minister, I would never have gone to talk to Zelensky because we are witnessing the devastation of his country and the massacre of its soldiers and civilians. It was enough for him to stop attacking the two autonomous republics of Donbass and this would not have happened, so I judge this gentleman's behavior very, very negatively». This was stated by the president of Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconi, after having voted in the polling station in via Ruffini in Milan for the regional elections in Lombardy.
Critical words against Giorgia Meloni, who in recent days met the Ukrainian president in Brussels expressing Italy's support for him, which immediately triggered the political controversy.
«Giorgia Meloni agrees with the disturbing words pronounced by Berlusconi on the war in
Ukraine? Today he has in fact officially sided with Putin's Russia. With these government allies, the premier should not complain about how she is treated in the EU," she wrote on Twitter
president of the senators of the Democratic Party, Simona Malpezzi.
In the midst of the fuss, the premier's reply leaked from Palazzo Chigi, reiterating, as she did in person to Zelensky on the sidelines of the last European Council, the Italian government's "full support for Kiev".
(Unioneonline/lf)
