What is said in the government majority about Ukraine
Does the League deviate from Meloni's line on the war in Ukraine? Damato's Scratches
I hope that Giorgia Meloni, fragile as she herself once declared to be in the cold or in the draughts, will not have to desert tomorrow's European Council due to the "freeze" that – according to the headlines and headlines on the front pages of La Stampa and La Repubblica – the League obtained it yesterday in the Senate. Who previously did not find a minister, I mean one, who could join the government benches in the discussion on the Brussels summit. The Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini , recently celebrated by the premier himself for his fiftieth birthday complete with karaoke as a couple, was detained elsewhere by who knows what more urgent commitments: perhaps the contemplation of the model of the bridge over the Strait of Messina. Then the League decided to intervene in the discussion with a speech by the group leader Massimiliano Romeo, to say the least, discordant with the line presented by the Prime Minister on the war in Ukraine, which the European Council will deal with with other issues.
THE VOTE (AND ABSENCES) OF THE LEAGUE ON UKRAINE
Then again, it is true, the Northern League senators – as the Melonian minister of relations with Parliament, Luca Ciriani, was keen to recall – voted with their centre-right, or right-centre, allies and with the so-called third pole, the motion in support , address and anything else to the government for the summit in Brussels, where the confirmation of military aid to the Ukraine attacked by Putin's Russia is taken for granted. But those Northern League absences from the government benches and the words of the Carroccio group leader certainly remain a conspicuous stain, also due to the sarcastic invitation of the speaker to Meloni's party colleagues not to "get distracted" during his speech, that is, to listen to him well well. And surprises, so to speak, Romeo had in mind: for example, the warning that "the increasingly powerful arms race" in Ukraine "leads to the risk of an accident from which there is no turning back".
It is a pity for him that it was not the Melonian allies who were distracted at that moment but the Grillini opponents, who therefore missed the opportunity for an applause that would have satisfied at least the vanity of the Northern League group leader. Or it would have rejuvenated him, bringing him back to the year or so of the grey-green majority of the last legislature. On the other hand, the leader of the Democratic Party was not distracted, who then made statements to ask, practically, in what capacity the League is still part of the government and of the majority,
THE ROLE OF AMBASSADOR RAZOV
Outside the Senate chamber, the very active Russian ambassador to Rome, Sergej Razov, will certainly not have been distracted – if he wasn't inside some gallery reserved for guests. That he knows the Italian Northern League and their boss well, to whom he advanced the money for a not exactly touristic trip to Moscow last year, canceled at the last moment. Razov rhymes with the name assigned to the leader of the League today by the Foglio in a headline on the front page as a rigorously political registry update: Romeozov.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/governo-meloni-lega-ucraina/ on Wed, 22 Mar 2023 06:52:48 +0000.