Elly Schlein runs to Berlin to shout about the “fascist danger” in Italy. The PSE convention in Germany, on the eve of the European elections, with Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the other leaders of the European left, turns into yet another partisan parade against the Meloni government. Work? Environment? War? None of this. The hot topic that the PD secretary brings to the renuion of European socialists is anti-melonism. The obsession of the Italian left. Schlein immediately puts on record an emergency freedom in Italy: «It is certainly serious that after a year and a little more of the Meloni government we have seen Italy drop by 5 positions in the Reporters Without Borders ranking and I must say that we are not surprised: we have given a military occupation of the public service which ceases to be such to become a megaphone for the government and we will continue to give solidarity to those journalists who inside Rai continue to do their job every day; we have seen the censorship of intellectuals and writers, with monologues that were not welcome; we saw the attempt by a state subsidiary to sell the second largest Italian press agency to a majority parliamentarian: not even Orban had ever gone that far.”
Small memory lapse. Italy also lost positions during the Pd and Conte governments. Then the dem leader mixes the vote, European alliances and the (imaginary) battle for freedom of the press: «If we are here to sign a joint declaration together with the whole socialist family it is also to underline our common values, not just to say no to alliances with the nationalist right but also to say why not: because some fundamentals of our democracy are being put at risk, as unfortunately we have already seen happen in some European countries, and part of this declaration also concerns moving in defense of pluralism and independence of journalists and the press, for which we will continue to fight.” The alliance against Von Der Leyen (with which the socialists govern) becomes the anti-Meloni alliance. The Fdi group leader in the Chamber Tommaso Foti responds briefly: «The international press continues to praise the figure of President Meloni. Today it is the turn of the British weekly The Spectator which has published an editorial in which it highlights the growing support for Giorgia Meloni and for Fratelli d’Italia. Not only that: even across the Channel we realized the total inconsistency of the opposition’s arguments, from the phantom censorship in Rai regarding the Scurati case to the controversy over Law 194. Someone help the opposition leaders to digest these international appreciations which demolish their vulgar propaganda.”
On the domestic front, talking about freedom and the press. The strike called by the red union in Rai (Usigrai) is scheduled for tomorrow. But there are those who rebel against the strike.
And he risks being massacred and pilloried on social media.
