Surprise party for Matteo Salvini's 50th birthday on the outskirts of Milan.
A party with two excellent guests: Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Forza Italia leader Silvio Berlusconi , who also posted a photo of all three smiling during the reception on Instagram.
Salvini and Meloni also tried their hand at karaoke, singing "La canzone di Marinella", one of Fabrizio De Andrè's best-known songs.
A video of the duet was posted on Instagram by journalist Nicola Porro, with the caption: "About the government crisis". And the video has aroused political reactions. On Twitter, the leader of the Democratic Party in the Chamber, Debora
Serracchiani , to comment on the scene, quoted the final lines of a poem by Eugenio Montale: «Only today can we tell you what we are not, what we don't want».
«They didn't pay homage to the dead of Cutro , they set up a pathetic staging , changed the institutional commitments to go and sing at Salvini's party. Inhumanity, cynicism, improvisation and ruthlessness: this government explained in a few gestures. What a shame … », the comment of the leader of the Democratic Party in the Senate, Simona Malpezzi.
"They did not want to meet their families or pay homage to the coffins, but they found time to celebrate Minister Salvini's 50th birthday", the words, however, of Matteo Lepore, mayor of Bologna where the funeral was celebrated yesterday for some of the victims of the shipwreck of Cutro.
(Unioneonline/lf)