Sandro Gozi, MEP Renew, Secretary General of the European Democratic Party, was the guest of “8:30 am franceinfo”, Sunday September 25, 2022. Legislative in Italy, warning from Von der Leyen … He answers questions from Lorrain Sénéchal and Neila Latrous.
Legislative: “Giorgia Meloni is a danger for Italy and Europe”
“If she does what she says, Giorgia Meloni is a danger to Italy and Europe”, says Sandro Gozi. In Italy, far-right candidate Giorgia Meloni is on track to win the legislative elections to be held this Sunday, September 25. The results will be known on Monday.
Giorgia Meloni will be “the most dangerous woman in Europe”as the German weekly puts it Sternif “she does what she always says”insists Sandro Gozi. “She is a post-fascist, reactionary, very hard on fundamental rights, the rule of law, on restrictions on the right to abortion, gender equality. She considers the LGBT community as a dangerous lobby for the traditional family”, he lists. During the election campaign, “she spoke a little more moderately”he nuances, however.
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Even if it comes first in these legislative elections, in Italy, “we have to see if, with her allies, she will have an absolute majority in the House and the Senate”, relativizes the Renaissance MEP on the LREM list. Giorgia Meloni “will never have an absolute majority on its own”he said.
The arrival of the far right in power is a “very worrying trend in Europe”insists Sandro Gozi, while already in mid-September, the right and the far right came out on top during the legislative elections in Sweden, where the left had been in charge for eight years.
Italy: Ursula von der Leyen’s statement “is a big blunder”
Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, said that “if things go in a difficult direction” in Italy with the election of Giorgia Meloni, she had “instruments” of pressure, as was the case for Poland and Hungary, that is to say possible sanctions. “It’s a big clumsiness, she would have done better to keep quiet”tackle Sandro Gozi. “I don’t know why this unfortunate sentence came out. It’s the kind of sentence that means nothing and puts gas in the engine of European populists. It would have been better to keep quiet”adds the MEP.
League leader Matteo Salvini asked on Friday “apology or resignation” by Ursula von der Leyen. “That would be better” that she withdraw her remarks, indicates for his part the MEP. “She tried to explain. But making these statements on the eve of a vote is a clumsiness”he insists.
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