“Feeling intimidated” –

The controversy raised by the left after Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s declarations in the Chamber ahead of the European Council does not abate. Angelo Bonelli invited the leader of the Brothers of Italy not to look at him “with that disturbing look”, while he went on the attack on the government. At that point the Prime Minister covered her face with her jacket. The gesture drove the number one of the Greens crazy. My sentence to the prime minister reported on the front page of the NYT? “I didn’t know, they told me. Meloni should have a more serious posture instead of making faces when she listens, I didn’t think she could react like that, she shouldn’t have covered herself with her jacket but listened to what an opposition MP had to say “he said on Rai Radio1.

When asked the reason for the words hurled at the prime minister, Bonelli said: “She had a look, her eyes were disturbing, almost glassy, ​​and she seemed intent on declassifying what I was saying. Maybe it was an incorrect assessment on my part regarding the topic we were facing. I was amazed, I’ve never seen something like that, not even when I went to school, that’s the Italian Parliament. I might have said something out of place, but do you think it’s covering your head? The photo it has been around the world, you make us look bad and even Italy risks being considered a caricature.”

Giorgia Meloni’s reply arrived via social media. “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 worrying look’, I responded by ironically covering my face so as not to arouse anxiety in my colleague”, he joked on Facebook and on Instagram, attaching the photo of her covering her face with her jacket, also published on the front page of the “Wall Street Journal”. “I don’t know what she meant by ‘disturbing look’, but I apologize to my colleague and to anyone else who may possibly feel intimidated” was the prime minister’s thrust.