"We'll talk about America another time. Now it's Armed Forces Day, November 4th." This is how Giorgia Meloni responded to journalists' questions, preferring not to comment on Donald Trump's resounding defeat in the US midterm elections .

But the controversy surrounding Antonio Tajani's statements is particularly hot: "We have never been Trump supporters, not even Meloni is a Maga and she has said no to Trump many times."

Thus the deputy prime minister became an easy target for the centre-left, which accused the government of "subservience to Trump's policies" and of "lacking decency" in now dissociating itself from them .

"A skilled illusionist, the author of the joke of the day," according to Piero De Luca of the Democratic Party. "Maybe now they'll come and tell us they never proposed the Nobel Peace Prize to Trump," adds Five Star Movement member Riccardo Ricciardi.

Elly Schlein, on the one hand, promises the defeat of "these right-wing groups that only bring war, division, recession, and rising costs," and on the other, emphasizes "the significant role played by women in Trump's resounding defeat." Giuseppe Conte also speaks of the urgency of "immediately turning the page" and urges: "We can truly change things," even in Italy. Matteo Renzi, on the other hand, quotes Barack Obama: "There is no internal division within the center-left that isn't worth overcoming. In 2027, we will stand united and defeat Meloni."

Donald Trump's defeat is largely being absorbed and interpreted differently by each party. Matteo Salvini espouses Vance's thesis: it's "the issue of the war unleashed with Iran and the unfinished war between Russia and Ukraine," with the associated increase in the cost of living, that "led so many Republicans to vote for the Democrats; Italy has a different story."

Forza Italia, through Raffaele Nevi , emphasizes that "America is our strategic partner and will remain so regardless" of who the winners and losers are, whether in the White House or on Capitol Hill. Some, like Licia Ronzulli , go so far as to emphasize the "significant rejection of the line taken by Donald Trump in recent months," but the party's line is the more institutional one.

From FdI there was virtually no comment, except for Ylenia Lucaselli, who launched Meloni as a "new interpreter of global conservatism," and Carlo Fidanza, who, from Brussels, slammed the left for "having so far failed to win a single noteworthy election in Italy and is rushing to claim" other people's victories.

Finally, Roberto Vannacci draws a parallel between the "unfulfilled promises" of the US president and those of Giorgia Meloni and declares: "To avoid suffering the same electoral consequences we're seeing in the US today, a radical change is needed, which only Futuro Nazionale can now guarantee."

(Unioneonline)

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