She made it all the way to the front page of Wall Street Journal the photo that immortalized Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni while yesterday, during the debate in the Chamber, at a certain point she covered her head and face with her jacket. A gesture that her prime minister made when the leader of the Green Alliance Angelo Bonelli, during her speech, asked her not to look at him “with that disturbing look”. A moment that today Meloni herself returned to comment on her social networks: “I note the uproar from various opposition members because to the words of the leader of the Greens Bonelli addressed to me in the Chamber, ‘don’t look at me with a disturbing look’, I responded by covering myself ironically my face so as not to arouse anxiety in my colleague. I don’t know what he meant by ‘disturbing look’, but I apologize to my colleague and to anyone else who may possibly feel intimidated.”
Bonelli: “From Meloni glassy eyes and unthinkable reaction”
The other protagonist of the story, Angelo Bonelli, also spoke about the episode again today A day as a Sheep: “I couldn’t think that” Giorgia Meloni “would react that way”, hiding her head in her jacket. Bonelli said he was amazed by the Prime Minister’s reaction: “I had never seen something like that, not even when I went to school…. That’s Parliament, I might have said something out of place but the reaction could be that? The photo didn’t just go to the Wall Street Journal, it went around the world. And it’s not just his problem, but Italy’s. We risk making ourselves look like caricatures.” Then to those who asked him to better define the prime minister’s “disturbing” look, he replied: “Glass eyes that looked… the eyes of a person evidently not interested in what I was saying but in declassifying it”.
