It has not sat well with the Italian Government that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, said this morning that in Italy “the extreme right is ruling.” The Foreign Minister of this country, Antonio Tajani, wanted to respond publicly with a publication on
In an interview this morning on TVE, the President of the Government explained that in the Spanish elections of July 23 it was clear to him that “they had saved a very important match point” and he compared the Italian Executive with the recent victories of Javier Milei in Argentina, where an “ultra-right” has won “with the support of the traditional right,” and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, where “we will see if he does not govern with the Popular Party in Holland.”
"We are witnessing an advance of reactionary governments that question such important elements as the participation of women in society and in the economic and social life of our country or that trivialize the climate emergency, which is one of the main problems of the humanity”, has considered the socialist leader.
Faced with these statements, Tajani, also Giorgia Meloni's deputy prime minister and leader of Forza Italia since the death of Silvio Berlusconi, has responded that in "Spain the extreme left governs", while in Italy they "have defeated it." “We respect the rule of law. Does the same happen in Madrid? In Italy the European People's Party (EPP) governs, in Spain, the secessionists,” he added.
It is not the first criticism from the head of Italian diplomacy, who during a debate in the Chamber of Deputies assured that, although Italy respects the “institutional dynamics underway in Spain, “the delicate point” is that the Catalan parties “have linked their support to divisive and controversial concessions from the point of view of the rule of law.”
Meloni, for his part, did not congratulate the socialist president on his inauguration – he did do so after Milei's victory – and instead received his friend and ally Santiago Abascal in Rome. The elections of July 23 were the first European disappointment for the prime minister, who hoped that the results in both Spain and Poland would mark the course of the ultra-conservative wave that she hopes to lead on the path to the next community elections.
