“It is very serious that members of the majority fall into provocations, which will increase“. Thus the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, responded during the final press conference of the G7 in Borgo Egnazia regarding the brawl that occurred in recent days in the Chamber. “But not even this – she added – managed to ruin the excellent outcome of this summit”. Meloni, in essence, attributed the responsibility for the brawl to opposition members, who “mock the members of the government in order to obtain what we have seen”. Soon comes the reply from Giuseppe Conte: “On Tuesday we will all wave the tricolor together in Rome. If for Meloni and his associates the Italian flag is a provocation then we will wave it louder. We discovered that for Prime Minister Meloni, showing an Italian flag in the Chamber and handing it to a minister to say no to Autonomy which is splitting the country is a ‘provocation’. The Italian flag is never a provocation. It is our symbol that reminds us to be united. I would have expected an apology from those who lead a majority that attacks an M5S parliamentarian in the middle of the Chamber with unprecedented violence, with kicks and punches.”
