Enrico Letta, the leader of the
centre-left Democratic Party (PD), told Brothers of Italy (FdI)
leader and likely future premier Giorgia Meloni on Wednesday
that her own coalition was damaging Italy's interests, not the
opposition.
Ex-premier Letta referred to Forza Italia (FI) leader Silvio
Berlusconi saying he had re-established ties with Russian
President Vladimir Putin and new Lower House Speaker and League
bigwig Lorenzo Fontana suggesting Western sanctions on Russian
could have a "boomerang" effect.
He also mentioned FI Senator Maurizio Gasparri presenting a bill
to grant legal status to the "conceived", which has been seen as
an attempt to attack the 194 law guaranteeing the right to
abortion.
"A question for Giorgia Meloni," Letta said via Twitter.
"Who is damaging Italy abroad? The opposition doing its job as
the opposition?
"The House Speaker who delegitimizes European sanctions on
Russia? Gasparri against the 194?
"(Or) Berlusconi re-establishing ties with the invader of
Ukraine".
Last week Meloni called on Letta to apologize after he
criticized the ruling coalition's picks for the new
parliamentary Speakers, describing them as "incendiary" while he
was in Berlin for the Congress of the Party of European
Socialists (PSE).
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